Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused -- hence all the old tales of elfin kingdoms moving further and… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
My dad took me out to see a meteor shower when I was a little kid, and it was scary for me… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
The true Christians are the true citizens, lofty of purpose, resolute in endeavor, ready for a hero's deeds, but never looking down… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Good and evil and beauty and ugliness are only ornamental fruits of perspective, whose sole value lies in their linkage to what… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Look Here are we On this starry night staring into space And I must say I feel as small as dust Lying… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low:… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
There’s only one question that matters, Ms. Lane, and it’s the one you never get around to asking. People are capable of… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
There is this unbounded, infinite, eternal, level, ocean, within every human being. Inner happiness comes with consciousness, bliss, intelligence comes with it.… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
There's a lie that all drivers tell themselves. Death is something that happens to other people, and that's how you find the… — James Hunt Copy Share Image
One of the powerful functions of a library-any library-lies in its ability to take us away from worlds that are familiar and… — Richard F. Thomas Copy Share Image
Prostrate on earth the bleeding warrior lies, And Isr'el's beauty on the mountains dies. How are the mighty fallen! Hush'd be my… — William Somervile Copy Share Image
I believe that the essence of government lies with unceasing concern for the welfare and dignity and decency and innate integrity of… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
You see, I'm a mighty proud gal and I can't for the life of me, find any valid reason why anyone should… — Fredi Washington Copy Share Image
The chief obstacle to success lies in the stubborn fact that if the favorable prospects of a concern are clearly apparent they… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
I don't mean to be insolent. I'm truthful. I tell the truth and the truth sometimes hurts. For instance, you have bad… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
I’ll probably just stand in a corner, trying not to be noticed, until the decoration committee accidentally packs me into a box… — Jordan Sonnenblick Copy Share Image
What Music expresses is eternal, infinite, and ideal; she expresses not the passion, love, desire, of this or that individual in this… — Richard Wagner Copy Share Image
All that stuff I was taught about evolution, embryology, Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell.… — Paul Broun Copy Share Image
The Democrats are between a rock and a hard place on it. They hate the Second Amendment. They want to get rid… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Words are such powerful things. We can rip somebody apart with them, we can write words down that can forever hurt another… — Joan Bauer Copy Share Image
“It seems too simplistic that just repeating a persuasive message should increase its effect, but that’s exactly what psychological research finds (again… — Jeremy Bean Copy Share Image
Thus there are two books from whence I collect my Divinity; besides that written one of God, another of his servant Nature,… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
I am a keen medievalist and like going around museums and ruins and finding out about the people and local culture. I'm… — Jools Holland Copy Share Image
In this world, only those people who have fallen to the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, who are not just… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Why do Britons keep stabbing each other in August? Why do seaside hotels burn down in August? Why do children disappear in… — Simon Jenkins Copy Share Image
Christianity has a hunter's instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair -although… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Aristotle suggests that the rotating Earth was a generally accepted tenet of Pythagorism: "While most of those who hold that the whole… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The ultimate end is a nation that lies under the concept of the Declaration of Indepen dence. The Declaration of Independence is… — Malcolm Wallop Copy Share Image
The percentage of gays is the same, probably, as anywhere. Most bodybuilders are straight, regular street guys, though a lot aren't serious.… — Arnold Schwarzenegger Copy Share Image
We cannot but recognize that, in practical terms, defending human life has become more difficult today, because a mentality has been created… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
As I got warmed up, and felt perfectly at home in talk, I heard myself boasting, lying, exaggerating. Oh, not deliberately, far… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
The inferiority of photographs to the best works of artists, so far as resemblance is concerned, lies in their catching no more… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Once one realizes that magick works, and that it works based on scientific factors, the next step is to hone one's skill… — Silver RavenWolf Copy Share Image
Among other things, [books by Bruce Doyle III and Mike Hernacki] explain the importance of the "winning attitude" I have been urged… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain character appears… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Is there no pity sitting in the clouds That sees into the bottom of my grief? O sweet my mother, cast me… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When I remember thee in days to come, O Jerusalem, it will not be with pleasure. The musty deposits of 2,000 years… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image