To the Technocrats: Have mercy on us. Relax a bit, take time out for simple pleasures. For example, the luxuries of electricity,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There have been times when I could have succumbed to some form of bribe, or could have had my way by offering… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
Trash can!” Pritkin cursed and grabbed one, just about the time everything I’d eaten that night paid a repeat visit. Whiskey, pizza,… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
I don't want to live in a world where the strong rule and the weak cower. I'd rather make a place where… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Wholehearted living is about engaging with our lives from a place of worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion and connection to… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face… — Russell Hoban Copy Share Image
We had to get out of Chicago so quick. Election night happens, suddenly I'm talking to Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I actually live right near a high school and I always walk by...I live in a high school. I actually live in… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
There were times when I lifted my face to the sky, stretched my arms wide to the winter night, and laughed out… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The answer is that there is no good answer. So as parents, as doctors, as judges, and as a society, we fumble… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The first MLB game I did was a Monday Night game, and no one really knew I was doing it. So walking… — Jessica Mendoza Copy Share Image
It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
Truth is dangerous. It topples palaces and kills kings. It stirs gentle men to rage and bids them take up arms. It… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures,… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
We turn off the TV, video games and computer - except for homework - during the week. The TV's reserved for Friday… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established… — Loretta Lynn Copy Share Image
I was staying in a hotel in San Francisco for a couple of nights, before flying back to the UK. My hotel… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
To say that you have taught when students haven't learned is to say you have sold when no one has bought. But… — Madeline Hunter Copy Share Image
Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke-smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I’m not going to let go of you. I’m going to hold you all night. So go ahead and feel whatever you… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
I was on a bus once, it was in the middle of the night, and I had a box of crackers and… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
You have to be very deep to be dead, he thought, and I'm not. He began to have some concept of forever,… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
A week after my drugs ran out, I left my bed to perform at the college, deciding at the last minute to… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
Vegas is definitely a new challenge, but I wanted to be able to put on a different type of show. You get… — Britney Spears Copy Share Image
The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak,… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
“The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars Letting in the light, peephole… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
But, if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from these heavenly worlds, will… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
“So, we’ll go no more a roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the moon… — George Gordon Byron Copy Share Image
“The night was shadows and wind and the smell of a storm on the way, a night for crying until the tears… — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
The very voices of the night, sounding like the moan of the tempest, may turn out to be the disguised yet tender… — John Ross Macduff Copy Share Image
It was about three o'clock at night when the final result of the calculation [which gave birth to quantum mechanics] lay before… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
My mother worked at the telephone company during the day and sold Tupperware at night. Evenings, she took classes when she could… — Gayle Tzemach Lemmon Copy Share Image
Love isn't a burst o' trumpets and a flock o' doves descendin' out o' the heavens to roost on yer heads. Tis… — Teresa Medeiros Copy Share Image
Green-eyed monsters,” said Magnus, and grinned. He deposited Chairman Meow on the ground, and the cat moved over to Alec, and rubbed… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
When the initial little impulse comes it just tends to come. I wake up in the middle of the night, or I'll… — Mark Duplass Copy Share Image
A murderer is less loathsome to us than a spy. The murderer may have acted on a sudden mad impulse; he may… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image