To be honest, I wrote so many drafts of this book [ The Nightingale ] and changed the characters so many times;… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
Be motivated like the falcon, hunt gloriously. Be magnificent as the leopard, fight to win. Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks.… — Rumi Copy Share Image
There's nightingales calling, shooting stars falling, like jewels in the rain. — David Gray Copy Share Image
The great pulsation of nature beats too in my breast, and when I carol aloud, I am answered by a thousand-fold echo.… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
You have the most revolting Florence Nightingale complex,' said Mrs. Smiling. It is not that at all, and well you know it.… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
here is no competition of sounds Between a nightingale and a violin. — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow? — Rumi Copy Share Image
Rather than recallin these flowersthe fragrance of the past,I would like to hear this nightingale's voice,to know if his song is as… — Izumi Shikibu Copy Share Image
Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales,… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Neruda had his first dream, First meeting with the Moon and the Sun In sunny La Mancha, hiding in his heart, Where… — Dejan Stojanovic 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
Say she rail; why, I'll tell her plain She sings as sweetly as a nightingale. Say that she frown; I'll say she… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
For all her active goodness, Florence Nightingale herself was far from being the angelic figure of popular adulation: according to Lytton Strachey's… — David Cannadine Copy Share Image
In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War (1853-1856), watched… — Sam Kean Copy Share Image
There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest,… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
The nightingale appear'd the first, And as her melody she sang, The apple into blossom burst, To life the grass and violets… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The nightingale has a lyre of gold, The lark's is a clarion call, And the blackbird plays but a boxwood flute, But… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
Great people will always be mocked by those who feel smaller than them. However, a lion does not flinch at laughter coming… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Bismarck was a large persian cat owned by Florence Nightingale. — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
Someone spoke of your death, Heraclitus. It brought me Tears, and I remembered how often together We ran the sun down with… — Callimachus Copy Share Image
Go, little book, and wish to all Flowers in the garden, meat in the hall, A bin of wine, a spice of… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
What's the biggest thing you've zapped with a fireball?' I asked. 'That would be a tiger,'said Nightingale. 'Well don't tell Greenpeace,' I… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
