Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
There's no doubt that in the last two to three decades, American democracy has been hacked. It was based on the regular… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I admire the artists that work everyday to attest things for themselves... In the act of transforming the objects of the everyday… — Gabriel Orozco Copy Share Image
It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have… — Frank Yerby Copy Share Image
So often we look at a calendar of days as merely a symbol of the passage of time. We forget why we… — Lynn Andrews Copy Share Image
I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
Our voice resonates with life. Because this is so, it can touch the lives of others. The caring and compassion imbued in… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
It had been a good day, all things considered. I had managed rather well on my own. I opened Grandfather's Bible. This… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep… — Lisa St. Aubin de Terán Copy Share Image
You have to be grateful to existence that it has chosen you to be a passage for a few beautiful children. But… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It has been jestingly said that the works of John Paul Richter are almost unintelligible to any but the Germans, and even… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
The idea that writing about characters of another race requires a passage through a critical gauntlet, which involves apology and self-examination of… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
“Tis the good reader that makes the good book; a good head cannot read amiss: in every book he finds passages which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You are life, inventing form. No more can you die on sword or years than you can die on doorways through which… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Many & most moments go by with us hardly aware of their passage. But love & hate & fear cause time to… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
What is said in James 2:14 ff. is like a two-coupon train or bus ticket. One coupon says, "Not good if detached"… — Charles Caldwell Ryrie Copy Share Image
You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
Our Keystone legislation received strong bipartisan support in the Senate. Although it didn't receive the 60 votes necessary for passage, 56 senators… — John Hoeven Copy Share Image
Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly, for then they would satiate us and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
One was a book I read by Mahatma Gandhi. In it was a passage where he said that religion, the pursuing of… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
Outward objects cannot take hold of the soul, nor force their passage into her, nor set any of her wheels going. No,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
For obvious reasons, I never told you about my notebook, with a cover as green as mansions long ago, which I use… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
'Smart growth' destroys the environment. 'Dumb growth' destroys the environment. The only difference is that 'smart growth' does it with good taste.… — Albert Allen Bartlett Copy Share Image
Time is clearly not our natural dimension. Thus it is that we are never really at home in time. Alternately, we find… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
'Words and Music' on Radio 3 is always a treat. Actors read passages of poetry and prose interspersed with music, and nobody… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus,… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block. When I find myself frozen-whether I'm… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
The passage from the realm of morals into the realm of religion is but a step; for the energy that we have… — Frank C. Lockwood Copy Share Image
There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“But Rosa soon made the discovery that Miss Twinkleton didn't read fairly. She cut the love-scenes, interpolated passages in praise of female… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
My mother was born in the city, my dad was an immigrant. Probably from Germany. Could have been Austria, could have been… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Tolkien seems to me reactionary, conservative, fearful of a modern world. Fearful of anything that isn't sanctioned by the passage of long… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional… — Karen DeCrow Copy Share Image
