(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on… — Elizabeth Zimmermann Copy Share Image
To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Many years ago I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised, 'I am killing him -… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an… — Richard Greenberg Copy Share Image
He brought a sensibility and a hard-edged reasonableness to operating restaurants that had a lasting impact on me and still affects how… — Joe Bastianich Copy Share Image
Pay no heed to the passing religious vogue. Go back to the grass roots. Open your hearts and search the Scriptures. Bear… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
A good, finished scandal, fully armed and equipped, such as circulates in the world, is rarely the production of a single individual,… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a… — Giacomo Casanova Copy Share Image
The passing of John Bonham... Let's just put it... Before we say, 'the passing of John Bonham,' the introduction of John Bonham… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation. Let this be one aspect of our daily intercession: "God,… — John Owen Copy Share Image
We embark unhesitatingly on the path, in a direction that is absolutely right and urgent, supported by everyone, in the knowledge that… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Our purpose on this earth is not one single event, an accomplishment we can check off a list. There is no test.… — Cynthia Hand Copy Share Image
Old age likes to dwell in the recollections of the past, and, mistaking, the speedy march of years, often is inclined to… — Lajos Kossuth Copy Share Image
I have never worked on interrogation; I have never seen an interrogation, and I have only a passing knowledge of the literature… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Pythagoras used to say that he had received as a gift from Mercury the perpetual transmigration of his soul, so that it… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that if members of Congress fail to perform their most basic duty in passing a budget, then they do… — Kurt Schrader Copy Share Image
Every time you are passing the test, you are coming closer to Krishna. — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
Before passing a judgement on somebody just give it a thought about what he or she went through. — Paresh Rawal Copy Share Image
People's opinions don't interfere with me. Ageing gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a… — Jeanne Moreau Copy Share Image
A 'passing' test doesn't mean 'no problem.' It means no problem *observed*. This time. With these inputs. So far. On my machine. — Michael Bolton Copy Share Image
With the broad and powerful swing of the hand which Zola in The Earth gave to his ploughman, L'Auto, journal of ideas… — Henri Desgrange Copy Share Image
