Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
It is no use thinking that writing of poems - the actual writing - can accommodate itself to a social setting, even… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: “With his nightcaps and the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The door opened, and we were met by a fifty-something man with a grizzled blond beard. He was wearing Bermuda shorts and… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Cooking isn’t taught,” Patch said. “It’s inherent. Either you’ve got it or you don’t. Like chemistry. You think you’re ready for chemistry?”… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse… — Elaine Scarry Copy Share Image
I'm trying to read/edit my story as if I have no existing knowledge of the story, no investment in it, no sense… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
...all members of Congress should be required wear NASCAR uniforms. You know, the kind with the patches? That way we'd know who… — Brad Thor 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
It doesn't have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I'm like a small farmer who interacts with people who consume what I make and tend my little patch of ground, and… — David Bazan Copy Share Image
I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
“It's satisfaction to the soul / To make something out of nothing, and to trim / A figured piece to fit a… — Jane Merchant 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
But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I… — Larry Hagman 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
A single Dallas Cowboys football game uses up as much electricity as the entire nation of Liberia in those same three hours… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I love seeing original cartoons. You get to see the artist's corrections, like erasures or Wite-Out or patches, and you get to… — Roz Chast Copy Share Image
We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease-spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we… — William James Copy Share Image
Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread out and where it touched the Darkness the… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Each year, the Great Pumpkin rises out of the pumpkin patch that he thinks is the most sincere. He's gotta pick this… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
The definition of a true friend is not someone who swoops in when you're going through a rough patch. True friendship is… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just as a snowflakewent on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, thepumpkin patch is a gathering… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
The security world needs to take a more proactive approach. A lot of companies will know an exploit exists and they'll release… — Michael Demon Calce Copy Share Image
Ready?" Despite the grim mood, I smiled and cracked my knuckles. "Ready to wrestle with my gorgeous boyfriend? Oh, I'd say I'm… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I lived a few miles outside of a tiny town in central Oklahoma. I would often run amok though the fields of… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense they had,… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Well yoy did it,"I congratulated Patch. "I´m as trained as I´ll ever be-a lean, mean sword-fighting machine. I should have made you… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
I have patches of insomnia, and I'm fascinated by the otherness of the world at night. The stillness. Daytime preoccupations fall away,… — Morag Joss Copy Share Image
Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we had planted… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In another universe I probably came out OK, ended up with mad novias and jobs and a sea of love in which… — Junot Diaz 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
I hung my fingertips on his waistband, tugging him closer. Patch buried his face in the curve of my shoulder, his hands… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
It took some time before the public learned that to appreciate an Impressionist painting one has to step back a few yards,… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
I had fun last night," I told Patch, flicking off my chin strap and handing over my helmet. "I'm officially on love… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
