(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To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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
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
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
I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Everything we do is escapism, because we'll all be dead and everything we do is completely meaningless. Why brush your teeth? Why… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Photography in our time leaves us with a grave responsibility. While we are playing in our studios with broken flowerpots, oranges, nude… — Brassai Copy Share Image
The best thing about time passing is the privilege of running out of it, of watching the wave of mortality break over… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it "Christmas" and went to church; the Jews… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The clouds are passing by slowly as the moon appears. Like the clouds, there are certain things which will disappear with the… — Jin Sun Mi Copy Share Image
