“They are strange trees, palm trees, they are so individualistic, so unique, so full of capriciousness, just as Jews are. One palm… — Dvorah Telushkin Master of Dreams A Memoir of Isaac Bashevis Singer 1997 2004 Copy Share Image
“The growth of his power and fame was matched, in my imagination, by the degree of the punishment I would have liked… — Nabokov i Tyrants Destroyed i Copy Share Image
I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
I see a girl caught in the remains of a holiday gone bad, with her flesh picked off day after day as… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Enjoyment, on the other hand, is not always pleasant, and it can be very stressful at times. A mountain climber, for example,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
“One of my favorite album covers is On the Beach. Of course that was the name of a movie and I stole… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
“I look at a palm tree and see strength and perseverance. How else could this tree stand tall in such arid land?” — Soroosh Shahrivar Copy Share Image
Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
“Scientists say that the palm tree line, that is the climate suitable to growth of the palm, is moving north, five hundred… — Leonardo Sciascia Copy Share Image
I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
You never know!” Neith snapped. “The point is, I’ll survive the apocalypse. I can live off the land!” She jabbed a finger… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Most of all, he was tired of being a holdout, a sole survivor, the last coconut hanging on the last palm tree… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“stories of the Virgin being succoured by a friendly palm tree had actually been a Christian tradition for centuries, and seem in… — Tom Holland Copy Share Image
“The longing provoked by the brochure was an example , at once touching and pathetic, of how projects (and even whole lives)… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Honolulu represents the worst of all that. Yet every time I fly in, anticipation begins to build just about the time I… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
It was my idea to do a two-hour course of barista training. I was keen to learn how to finish off my… — Justin Cartwright Copy Share Image
“I am the twentieth century. I am the ragtime and the tango; sans-serif, clean geometry. I am the virgin's-hair whip and the… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
“b) ‘A Muslim is like a date palm tree whose leaves do not fall, always beneficial and never harmful.’ “This influences my… — Adrienne Maree Brown Copy Share Image
