If you listen to the urban speech patterns in India you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Two years ago, I was saying as I planted seeds in the garden, "I must believe in these seeds, that they fall… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
You never have to buy an issue of Cosmo again to be the 'Best Lover He's Ever Had.' Just remember this phrase:… — Lisa Ann Walter Copy Share Image
It is possible that, in fact, Trump's call for "America First" (despite evoking unpleasant recollections that such a phrase was the invention… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
On the board was a list of words and phrases which her mother considered not suitable for use in college T-shirt design.… — Hilary McKay Copy Share Image
Brands need to take the phrase 'acting like a publisher literally. — Dietrich Mateschitz Copy Share Image
The selective instinct of the artist tells him when his language should be homely, and when it should be more elevated; and… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
I think it would be funny for people to read in obituaries of me that my major contribution to the arts was… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound, "Your lord will soon return," no phrase brings. — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
The main trend with the theme episodes is that anywhere there is a misconception about the way the physical world works, we're… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, . . . when it was supposed that nature exists for the… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
On a more technical level, a story takes a lot of words. And to generate words and phrases and images and so… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Long-term success is never achieved on our own. The phrase 'a self-made man' is a myth all along the way we need… — Isadore Sharp Copy Share Image
The only thing better than good English writing is - I can't think of anything. You just don't pour it pureed over… — William Murchison Copy Share Image
..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it. — Henry James Copy Share Image
In the "Intervention" section of the book we go into that looping from a battery of positions (where healer and sufferer are… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
“Young love-making--that gossamer web! Even the points it clings to--the things whence its subtle interlacing are swung--are scarcely perceptible; momentary touches of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are certain things that are fundamental to human fulfillment. The essence of these needs is captured in the phrase 'to live,… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection, Figures pedantical--these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, ..., there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
