The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
All you do is pull the pin, and it releases a startling alarm that can get you out of a bad situation. — Ryan Lochte Copy Share Image
The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist.… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Send anyone claiming that their RPG activity is an art form my way, and I'll gladly stick a pin in their head… — Gary Gygax Copy Share Image
The woodchopper reads the wisdom of the ages recorded on the paper that holds his dinner, then lights his pipe with it.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm pretty good at inventing phrases - you know, the sort of words that suddenly make you jump, almost as though you'd… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my… — Olivia Colman Copy Share Image
Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The 'feminine' woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
If I had felt then as I feel now, or as I felt a few years after I had married her, nothing… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
A pin lies in wait for every bubble and when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Friend of fatherless! Fountain of happiness! Lord of the swill-bucket! Oh, how my soul is on Fire when I gaze at thy… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We all of us must come to terms with what and who we are, and recognize that this wisdom is not going… — Sándor Márai Copy Share Image
You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
If there are going to be people out there making war on other people, don't you think it's a good idea for… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
Every pleasure or pain has a sort of rivet with which it fastens the soul to the body and pins it down… — Socrates Copy Share Image
Most headlines are set too big to be legible in the magazines or newspaper. Never approve a layout until you have seen… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
No one ever taught me, and I never had formal classes in pattern making, so I was like, Okay, I'll just drape,… — Alexander Wang Copy Share Image
When I was little, I used to think that the sky at night was a big, black blanket that separated heaven from… — Robin Jones Gunn Copy Share Image
Well, you always worry about being pin holed. I haven't been yet. You always worry about that, no matter which genre you… — Sylvain White Copy Share Image
Jefferson refused to pin his hopes on the occasional success of honest and unambitious men; on the contrary, the great danger was… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
One might say that "Torch Song" is, in part, about the urgency of the effort to pin things down and what wild… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
