But the thought arrived inside her like a train: Marya Morevna, all in black, here and now, was a point at which… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
There's a book called Mummy and the people actually seem to have become addicted to mummy dust. And mummy dust was somehow… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done. — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
Our world is not an optimal place, fine tuned by omnipotent forces of selection. It is a quirky mass of imperfections, working… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I fell asleep that night thinking about the kiss that might have been. What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
You might have been paid back enough to suit you" I said, "but I don't know if you've been paid back enough… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
... the radical deficiency of imagist verse, as such, is in its lack of general ideas. Much of it might have been… — Bliss Perry Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States of America. Let's… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
In the [first] fifteen years [of field work] I can remember just ten times when I had really narrow escapes from death.… — Roy Chapman Andrews Copy Share Image
In the weeks since I had made the decision to leave my father's house, I had grown up. And I had learned… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
The point is that something I thought was perfect has been broken, and I'm having to find the beauty in what is… — James Howe Copy Share Image
I might have been through some changes, but changing the way I look wasn't one of the major ones. To be honest.… — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Beyond the window, some kind of small, black thing shot across the sky. A bird, possibly. Or it might have been someone's… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely been free from… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
Look at the mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not tell a lie--could not tell a lie! But he… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest… — Rita Zahara Copy Share Image
If I had been a winger, I might have been daydreaming and thinking about how to keep my kit clean for next… — Bill Beaumont Copy Share Image
At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look… — Imelda Staunton Copy Share Image
They might have been all-right people doing the best they could, but I got to tell you, you got a dead cat… — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image