Oh, it was gorgeosity and yumyumyum. When it came to the Scherzo I could viddy myself very clear running and running on… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
When someone like myself points out the rather obvious and compelling evidence that God is cruel and unjust, because he visits suffering… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“There is enchantment in wondering...in seeing a beautiful portrait every now and then rather than an overabundance of the overexposed; I wanted… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It's a mystery," Vin said, narrowing her eyes and smiling. "We Mistborn are incredibly mysterious." Elend paused." Um...I'm Mistborn too, Vin. That… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
I guess in my own life, privacy, anonymity, and the mystery of being lost are important. I also feel that people are… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
Like the entomologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the grey matter cells with delicate… — Santiago Ramon y Cajal Copy Share Image
Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
All that a spectator gets out of the game is fresh air, the comical articles in his program, the sight of twenty-two… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you… — Jared Harris Copy Share Image
The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described - and will be,… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
There are occasions when you can hear the mysterious language of the Earth, in water, or coming through the trees, emanating from… — John Hay Copy Share Image
Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I want to make photographs whose very ambiguity provokes thought, rather than cuts it off prematurely. I want to make pictures that… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words… — Patrick White Copy Share Image
What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century,… — Andrew Schneider Copy Share Image
One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The new racism, like God, works in mysterious ways and is quite effective in maintaining white privilege. For example, instead of saying… — Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Copy Share Image
It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Our response to the world is essentially one of wonder, of confronting the mysterious with a sense, not of being small, or… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
While science continually uncovers new mysteries, it has removed much of what was once regarded as deeply mysterious. Although we certainly do… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these… — Ed Wood Copy Share Image
Give me bitter years of sickness, Suffocation, insomnia, fever, Take my child and my lover, And my mysterious gift of song This… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
I remember, as a kid, going into other people's houses. Everything was different. The smells in the kitchen were different; the clothing… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
If it is God who gives prayer, then God often gives it in the form of gratitude, and gratitude itself, when it… — Roberta Bondi Copy Share Image
“With great abilities come great responsibilities; great power comes with great assignments. With great age comes great reasoning; great actions come great… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Thank god we don't know a lot about William Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautréamont. These are the best guys we… — Cass McCombs Copy Share Image
The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“You know how I love secrecy. It is the only thing that can make modern life wonderful or mysterious to us. The… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The air is the most mysterious, the most exciting, the most challenging of all the elements. We leave the planet, we leave… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted to move away from the disaster airplane movies that we have seen in the past and do something that was… — Jaume Collet-Serra Copy Share Image
You know, it's a pretty mysterious thing still, why you start the songs you start, and the specific flavor of them, the… — Gillian Welch Copy Share Image
Everything is judged by its appearance; what is unseen counts for nothing. Never let yourself get lost in the crowd, then, or… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image