POSTNot a head stands out A finger rises Then it is the voice that one knows A signal a brief note A… — Pierre Reverdy Copy Share Image
Prior to 1968, the gullible gentiles could take a one dollar Federal Reserve note into any bank in America and redeem it… — Harold Wallace Rosenthal Copy Share Image
When a poet mentions the spring, we know that the zephyrs are about to whisper, that the groves are to recover their… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
So proper for a circus girl," Mme. Padva says with with a gleam in her eye. "We shall have to loosen those… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Her voice, high and clear, moved through the leaves, through the sunlight. It splashed onto the gravel, the grass. He imagined the… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
“[T]he relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios--the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
I think the underlying purpose is expression. It's not about technique, it's not about hitting the right note, writing the perfect prose,… — Charlie Albright Copy Share Image
That would be nice if [people] stuck [treasury bills] all under a mattress, but they got to buy something with them. Sometimes… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I had two chances to fail [working for Disney]. The first one, they said was "too juvenile." The second one was,they give… — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
If they think they are doing something new, they ought to do what I do every day - spend at least two… — Coleman Hawkins Copy Share Image
You never can tell, though, with suicide notes, can you? In the planetary aggregate of all life, there are many more suicide… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
He's at ease, his body sculpted to the music, his shoulder searching the other shoulder, his right toe knowing the left knee,… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Withen 5 minutes of the transfusion he declared her out of danger. Chucking her under… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Every once in awhile, Allison Abbate would drop a note and say, "It's going really well!," and I was like, "Great!" So,… — John August Copy Share Image
It struck me that the movies had spent more than half a century saying, They lived happily ever after and the following… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
With non-fiction writing I feel like I'm confined and driven by what actually happened. That makes the "plot". So it's a process… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot believe this; because for me,… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
I've found, as I'm sure you have, that when you're trying to learn from the Lord and you feel an impression from… — Gene R. Cook Copy Share Image
My best experience as a writer was working with Michael Ondaatje. He let me dismantle his novel, reimagine it, and still had… — Anthony Copy Share Image
“It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
What daughter thinks of her parents in flagrante delicto? Yet, my mother, even after years with him, dropped hints such as, 'You… — Joy Behar Copy Share Image
The most important thing to do as an artist is to get out of your comfort zone and work with different people:… — Katie Noonan Copy Share Image
Three years after my first trip to Haiti, I realized there was another emotional note that had to be reckoned with: the… — Alex Webb Copy Share Image
To sing is to praise God and the daffodils, and to praise God is to thank Him, in every note within my… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the… — James Whistler Copy Share Image
The writer loves the fog as it pours in; he loves the sun when the fog pours out. The rest of California… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
I listen to the summer symphony outside my window. Truthfully, it's not a symphony at all. There's no tune, no melody, only… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
I took many notes, more than usual before I sat down and wrote Act One, Scene One. I had perhaps eighty pages… — Charles Busch Copy Share Image
Over a period of about year-and-a-half, Malcolm X and [Alex] Haley agreed to work with each other. They met usually after a… — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
I think the most note-worthy part is that Stella [Mozgawa] had joined the band two weeks before we started recording, so that… — Theresa Wayman Copy Share Image
The way you hold the bow, the way that violinists are trained to produce a note, is really different. I'm not an… — Bruce Molsky Copy Share Image
We don't need women. There are plenty other things in the world to have sex with, just go to a sexaholics meeting… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
One of my constant reminders is, 'End practice on a happy note.' I want the boys to want to come out to… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that… — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
... And we talk it out. Lately, I've had Roy Thomas come in, and he sits and makes notes while we discuss… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Did he just rip out the engine?" I asked. "Yes", Saiman said. "And now he is demolishing the Maserati with it." Ten… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The Blue album, there’s hardly a dishonest note in the vocals. At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses.… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Always tell us where we are. And don't just tell us where something is, make it pay off. Use description of landscape… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Radio, or at least the kind of radio we're proposing to do, can cut through that. It can reach people who would… — Daniel Alarcon Copy Share Image