Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved. It has arrested ten… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
And at last father flung the rug off as if it were hampering him and strode over to the table saying, 'cocoa,… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Well, sure, but I don't bring God into it. I think shower massage might have been invented by the devil. God invented… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
I'm not an analytical person, so it's not my job to even know what the hell the thing meant. It's not my… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Well, it might have been if I'd had success earlier in life, but having success that much later meant I was far… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Besides, we weren't made to battle villains, because there weren't any. No nation, creed, or race was any better or worse than… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The pain was as unexpected as a thunderclap in a clear sky. Eddis's chest tightened, as something closed around her heart. A… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
It is the large aggregate of small things perpetually occurring that robs me of all my time. The expense of learning to… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
O prejudice, prejudice, prejudice, how many hast thou destroyed! Men who might have been wise have remained fools because they thought they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If Chevy Chase had not been an actor, he might have been a very popular guy in advertising or whatever field he… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
That it is not enough to catch a criminal and get them convicted and so on, because the victim remains with the… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
My parents sent me to a school across town, an integrated school, where I had the chance to meet and grow up… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Thus when I come to shape here at this table between my hands the story of my life and set it before… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I think the most important advice is, a person doesn't have to find out right away. It's not like their first attempt… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I have never been much of a groomer. I take baths a lot, but I don't wear deodorant. I don't have to.… — Zach Galifianakis Copy Share Image
These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
If there'd been a better-balanced society, where there were other ways of making a decent living, I think it might have been… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
The paramount doctrine of the economic and technological euphoria of recent decades has been that everything depends on innovation. It was understood… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints. — John Smith Copy Share Image
