If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Lord, my body has been a good friend But I won't need it when I reach the end Miles from nowhere, Guess… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
I was born on the eighteenth of December, 1935, in the town Bourg-en-Bresse, about thirty miles northeast of Lyon, the second of… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
On the return trip home, gazing through 240,000 miles of space toward the stars and the planet from which I had come,… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of fifteen miles per hour by engines which, in addition to endangering life and… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
f the government is going to put money into the automobile sector, it should break up GM and Chrysler as a condition… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
“A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green. The… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Friday was Atlanta. That was fifteen bucks. Once a month, we made a six hundred mile trip from Indianapolis down to Atlanta,… — Lou Thesz Copy Share Image
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Very close by the CMS shops, hidden about a quarter mile away in the woods, was the prison's rifle range. Correctional officers… — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What are the odds that two separate writers, strangers, a thousand miles apart, would each invent fictions in which guys take girls… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The heat is searing and superb. The paddocks surrounding the town are bleached blond. The distant ring-barked gums, mile after mile, wriggle… — Hal Porter Copy Share Image
There's never been a moment,' he barely said, 'when I didn't recognize you.' She wiped her eyes. Her mascara smeared. He nudged… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
And while these pounds were being shed, while the physiological miracles were occurring with the heart and muscle and metabolism, psychological marvels… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, could stand… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people, and must be willing to bear the expenses of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I got a job as a children's librarian at PS 175 in Harlem, and that changed everything. That was an epiphany. I… — Lynne Stewart Copy Share Image
Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away. — Thomas Beecham Copy Share Image
Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color,… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
He doesn’t have to say it, i feel it too; it’s not subtle - like every bell for miles and miles is… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
If two people believe in the same story, they might be thousands of miles apart and total strangers, but they still have… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
