The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
in nineteen minutes you can norder a pizza and have it delivered. You can read a story to a child or have… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we… — Michael Herr Copy Share Image
I walked 500 miles just to see a halo, when I opened my eyes I was blind as can be. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
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I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
To the wisest man, wide as is his vision. Nature remains of quite infinite depth, of quite infinite expansion and all experience… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
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There's no sort o' mistake in little Bullet. He can pick up miles on his feet, and fling 'em behind him as… — Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Copy Share Image
When I was growing up in rural Alabama, as a young child, about 50 miles from Montgomery, and we would visit the… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
I could be blindfolded and dropped into the deepest ocean and I would know where to find you. I could be buried… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of personal space - like,… — Peter Steele Copy Share Image
Those stories weren't being written at all - stories about women's inner lives and outer activism. We've come miles and miles, but… — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image
I can smell bullshit from a mile away but it's so much harder to detect when it's around you all day. — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
Southern barbecue is the closest thing we have in the U.S. to Europe's wines or cheeses; drive a hundred miles and the… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
Three half-mile repeats on the track at 5-K race pace with a short recovery jog in between shouldn't scare anyone away-and it… — Frank Shorter Copy Share Image
Think of the glory. Think of your reputation. Think how great it'll look on your next resume." On my cenotaph, you mean.… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image