I wanted all things to seem to make some sense, So we could all be happy, yes, instead of tense. And I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Isn't the first story told in the West about the Fall? Adam and Eve were immigrants too from somewhere, a lost Eden,… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end. — William Penn Copy Share Image
“Hell's only the flip side of Paradise. Sometimes it's hard to differentiate between the two.” — Sara Craven Copy Share Image
I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started… — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
The cultural products of America from this period [ fifties and sixties] are like a vision of paradise or something. I find… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The thing that had fueled these utopian communities was a literal belief, and not just a general sense of optimism, that the… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
A lover of what is looks forward to everything: life, death, disease, loss, earthquakes, bombs, anything the mind might be tempted to… — Byron Katie Copy Share Image
My later jobs as a waitress felt like a posh paradise after my first one at Boston Market. — Kat Timpf Copy Share Image
Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
One of the most magical places on Earth is a small island in the Caribbean called Mustique. With brilliant beaches, warm water,… — Nina Garcia Copy Share Image
I do not want to go to heaven; I want my children, forever children, and other children, stalwart adults, and a good… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
If it weren't for the people always getting tangled up with the machinery... Earth would be an engineer's paradise. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
History has been male and the future is female. Leaning on women as a body and the female archetype, and not just… — Antony Hegarty Copy Share Image
God, Satan, Paradise, and Hell all vanished one day in my fifteenth year, when I quite abruptly lost my faith. ... and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise--a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames--but still a paradise. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We danced our youth in a dreamed of city, Venice, paradise, proud and pretty, We lived for love and lust and beauty,… — Veronica Franco Copy Share Image
Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps--located, ironically,… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“The sun tells the best joke of a day full of them, setting so spectacularly that you can almost smell the tropical… — Tod Wodicka Copy Share Image
I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it. — Callan McAuliffe Copy Share Image
In such novels as This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald depicts the spirit of the hour which is usually… — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
“That’s the first thing that strikes an American woman about Europe – that it’s unsanitary. Impossible for them to conceive of a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
