Conversion is not a repairing of the old building, but it takes all down and erects a new structure. It is not… — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing ofrags and patches, of… — Julian Sands Copy Share Image
Here is a quilted book about mathematical practice, each patch wonderfully prepared. Part invitation to number theory, part autobiography, part sociology of… — Peter Galison Copy Share Image
Even from far away, I could see people being chased by hellhounds, burned at the stake, forced to run naked through cactus… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Those who remember New York in the 1970s, as I do, look back on a city that had hit a very rough… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
An employer of mine back in the '80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
Patch’s eyes were black orbs. Taking in everything and giving away nothing. — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Women are usually only interesting to studio executives when they are fecund, between the ages of 15 and 30. I decided to… — Tyne Daly Copy Share Image
In a mad moment, my family and I purchased a home in Maine because it's the place in the world that my… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
I swear to you, Patch, to take your love and cherish it. And in return, to give you my body and my… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Like NASCAR race drivers or PGA golfers, why not require each of the [US presidential] candidates to cover their clothing, briefcases and… — Jim Hightower Copy Share Image
There was a bad patch in the '80s and early '90s when feminist thinking had become sort of a monopoly and had… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
It is extremely rough to follow through with my goals, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the African… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
East of my bean-field, across the road, lived Cato Ingraham, slave of Duncan Ingraham, Esquire, gentleman, of Concord village, whobuilt his slave… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And he made love to her, offering his body in both tenderness and anger, unsure which was the best way to pass… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
On the way I stood a moment looking out across the marshes with tall cattails, a patch of water, more marsh, then… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
I have had a few rough patches in my life, but these last few years have been among the roughest. A few… — Dayna Devon Copy Share Image
... I stayed because running seemed too strange and too complicated. All I knew was how to fall back, find a patch… — Tana French Copy Share Image
Severus, please fetch me the strongest truth potion you posess, then go down to the kitchen and bring up the house elf… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you go for a walk, take seeds with you, poppies, rainbow chard, rocket. Plant them among the weeds in patches of… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
