Work saved me. Literature saved me. It sounds corny but it's absolutely true. I was going in the wrong direction, but after… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
When I didn't retain the world title after my first win, which no one's ever done, I was gutted and made my… — Stephen Hendry Copy Share Image
So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Virtue is not a mushroom, that springeth up of itself in one night when we are asleep, or regard it not; but… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
“The young man had killed himself; but she did not pity him; with the clock striking the hour, one, two, three, she… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled - secure from violent passions or temptations to evil - those who have never… — Eva Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
This gown, is it cut from shadow?" the general asked. "I can barely feel it between my fingers." Not for want of… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I got so good at writing to a budget, my brain was restricting myself. I'd write, "It's a stormy night." Then I'd… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
Every time we think about being happy again, it hurts to be alive. Because it seems an inordinate thing for us to… — Chica Umino Copy Share Image
To stutter through it with you or even stop stuttering and say nothing, was so lucky and soft, better talk than mile-a-minute… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
I remember I would not stand still; I would not stop being perplexed by everything that spontaneously attracted me or caught my… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Read any of the top-selling business books, all of them talk about moving away from a top down manner of leading to… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
The literary gift is a very dangerous gift to possess if you are not telling the truth, and I would a great… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
We have crossed the boundary that lies between Republic and Empire. If you ask when, the answer is that you cannot make… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
This is, if not a lifetime process, it's awfully close to it. The writer broadens, becomes deeper, becomes more observant, becomes more… — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of typewriters that I've had relationships with; one still has a piece of masking tape that says "$8"… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
There is a moment that often comes to mind when I'm reflecting on filming 'Trinkets.' It was during our second season; there… — Kiana Madeira Copy Share Image
He liked cheap women, fast cars, late nights, and hard liquor, especially all together. In Jack's view, you are obliged to sin… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Lady Maccon.” “By George, Boots! How the deuce can you possibly tell that there is Lady Maccon?” queried the other top-hated gentleman.… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
I would think somebody like Jane Fonda and her idiot husband would be terribly ashamed and saddened that they were a part… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
I think what I am always trying to do is make clothes for every girl to wear, to make things that you… — Whitney Port Copy Share Image
I remember when I was first trying to make 'Night Moves' I was working at it for a year and it just… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
If I was writing a song one night, I would leave the studio and come back the next day, and if I… — Trentemøller Copy Share Image
'Animal House' was my first movie, so I didn't have anything to compare it to. I was a sight gag more than… — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of… — Otis Redding Copy Share Image
“But mostly not for nothing never quite for nothing even stillest night when air too still for even the lightest leaf to… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
There are times when the ocean is not the ocean - not blue, not even water, but some violent explosion of energy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrender. Each morning, we awaken to the light and the invitation… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Certain miracles that I beheld there have haunted my memory ever since: a gray April morning of sirocco, when the almond blossoms,… — Harrison Gray Otis Dwight Copy Share Image
“When I am not with you I am alone, For there is no one else And there is nothing That comforts me… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
If you're going somewhere East from here, generally what you want to do is you want to try to have your bed… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
1,000 cows in the U.S. are alive at night and dead in the morning. These cows on the ground are ground into… — Howard Lyman Copy Share Image
When I go into the club I have a game plan, I dont wanna waste my time and take home a girl… — Pauly D Copy Share Image
Literally, walking down that path. I was walking to work and I passed by A.C.T. (American Conservatory Theater) in San Francisco, and… — Tim Kang Copy Share Image
I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an… — Victoria Beckham Copy Share Image
“These were the distractions I had to choose from. There were no other lights burning downtown after nine o'clock. On starlight nights… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
'Rock Bottom Riser' by Smog - I was just in Europe, and my jet lag never really went away. I wasn't sleeping… — Kevin Morby Copy Share Image
You, God, who live next door-- If at times, through the long night, I trouble you with my urgent knocking-- this is… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
