My mother was a wonderful, wonderful woman with a lovely voice who hated housework, hated cooking even more and loved her children.… — Maureen Forrester Copy Share Image
Pete Ham in the group was a very good writer. He wrote the Nilsson song "Without You", which is a seriously good… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
One of the more interesting things I've learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the book, you'll generally like… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
I've long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would… — James Beard Copy Share Image
Summer ends now; now, barbarous in beauty, the Stooks arise Around; up above, what wind-walks! what lovely behavior Of silk-sack clouds! Has… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how? The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair; I wake to sleep,… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Even sleep is characteristic. How beautiful are children in their lovely innocence! how angel-like their blooming features! and how painful and anxious… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
She had been the quiet, rather plain girl, with a surprisingly sharp tongue if she was put out, lovely eyes and pretty… — Betty Neels Copy Share Image
I do for myself exactly what I would do for you - make a lovely cup of tea, or a hot bath,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The poem is always the last resort. In it the poet makes a world in little, and finds peace, even though, under… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
I'm really happy in my own skin. There's a lot of judgment that can come from outside sometimes, and there's media scrutiny… — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
Shyam Benegal has found a lovely voice in this film. We've all seen the kind of cinema he's come up with over… — Boman Irani Copy Share Image
I started quite young at school, compering a charity event at an old people's home. I would do stand up and impressions… — Armando Iannucci Copy Share Image
...Gratitude transforms the torment of memory of good things now gone into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
There are no bad days in the market. When the market is down, you've got bargains, and it's lovely to think of… — Bruce Greenwald Copy Share Image
“Before I could reply, he had picked me up, literally swept me off my feet, and kissed me. And afterwards, when I… — Jennifer Paynter Copy Share Image
SORRY IF I CAN'T TELL YOU FRANKLY,THAT YO'URE NOSE IS SO PRETTY.. THAT YOUR HAIR IS SO LOVELY AND HOW I WISH… — APRIELLE JOY LEE UYSHOKDIE Copy Share Image
Just think of the possibilities, the potential. Every little boy that has just been born becomes an heir to this glorious, glorious… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
In fact, he's never taken an interest in a woman before. I was beginning to to suspect he might prefer one of… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
If a journalist shows a facility for praise he's liable to be offered a job in public relations or advertising and the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Tell me now in what hidden way isLady Flora the lovely Roman?Where's Hipparchia, and where is Thais,Neither of them the fairer woman?Where… — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
That the world I was in could be soft, lovely, and nourishing was more than I could bear, and so I stood… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
Carter started down the stairs, but I grabbed his arm. “Hang on. What about traps?” He frowned. “Traps?” “Didn’t Egyptian tombs have… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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Have you ever been anyone's?" "No. And you?" "I've never wanted to." "Neither have I. Until I saw this lovely girl in… — Katy Evans Copy Share Image
Oh, I wish I lived in a caravan!’ said Jimmy longingly. ‘How lovely it must be to live in a house that… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
I used to have a lovely wallet with lots of different compartments where I kept photographs of my grandmother, grandfather and friends.… — Neve McIntosh Copy Share Image
My writing is translated into every Indian language, it's distributed in pamphlets, in little private video things, it's everywhere. So it's a… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I was cast last minute for Casino Royale. They asked me to fly to Prague. I liked the script very much. I… — Eva Green Copy Share Image
The indignity of it!- With everything blooming above me, Lilies, pale-pink cyclamen, roses, Whole fields lovely and inviolate,- Me down in the… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I'm a full grown man and I'm not tall enough to ride a rollercoaster. So I will sit on the teacups, eat… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd like to meet a lovely man who shares my interests. On the other hand, I possibly will not. It's part of… — Barbara Feldon Copy Share Image
It's my contention that there is no sincere path a human being can take without breaking his or her heart...so it can… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Well morning came, and it dressed the sky in a lovely yellow gown. Shopping malls are opening in that narrow hallway of… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
