That's the hard part of overdosing on cherries-you have all the pits to tell you exactly how many you ate. Not more… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
We were into the Speedway. We'd take a train out to the Speedway where farmers had flatbed trucks with bleachers on them.… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Elvis [Presley] had a stepstool, if you will, to success because he came from the dominant culture. They identified with him. Michael… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The biggest obstacle facing girls is education, education, education. There are too many kids who think high school is a pit stop… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
Your interests will guide you. Give no concern to what they say you cannot do. Be willing to accept the challenge. Take… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
It is quite exhilarating to speak about a God who has an incredible bias, a notorious bias in favor of the downtrodden.… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I do not think myself to be a worm, and a grub, grass of the field fit only to be burned, a… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Make sure that your ambitions are really lofty - not just seem to be. Sometimes instead of engaging in those so called… — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Better be careful talking about how good my cooking is. Roslyn might get jealous.” The vampire madam let out a soft laugh.… — Jennifer Estep Copy Share Image
The snow has left the cottage top; The thatch moss grows in brighter green; And eaves in quick succession drop, Where grinning… — John Clare Copy Share Image
We must do business in great waters; we must be really on the deck in a storm, if we would see the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was little, my friends would gush over wedding gowns and honeymoons. But I saw too many people flush decades together… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid,… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
Corruption and envy and lust for power. Cruelty and coldness. A vicious probing curiousity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You have never from… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Now the noisy winds are still; April's coming up the hill! All the spring is in her train, Led by shining ranks… — Mary Mapes Dodge Copy Share Image
I'd come here planning to leave as soon as I could. It was a pit stop, not a destination. I had my… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
As much as people try to pit black entertainers against one another, because of the underlying feeling that there can't be two… — David Banner Copy Share Image
That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
IBM uses what I like to call the 'hole-in-the-ground technique' to destroy the competition… IBM digs a big HOLE in the ground… — John C. Dvorak Copy Share Image
It is about time that the religious and environmental faithful joined forces. No one wins when divisive politics pits the right to… — Alex Bruce Copy Share Image
Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
If you depart from moral absolutes, you go into a bottomless pit. Communism and Nazism were catastrophic evils which both derived from… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Mr. McCain fought in Vietnam. I think that he has enough blood of peaceful citizens on his hands. It must be impossible… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
'Tis not need we know our every thought Or see the work shop where each mask is wrought Wherefrom we view the… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
There's the beauty of the stage. I don't like filmed theater or opera because you're kind of playing soccer in a hockey… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
Like magic, she felt him getting nearer, felt it like a pull in the pit of her stomach. It felt like hunger… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
Moon, moon, when you leave me alone all the darkness is an utter blackness, a pit of fear, a stench, hands unreasonable… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
It is taken care of. Nothing will not break into my Pit or the Far Reaches! I cannot speak for the other… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems very exciting. It's only… — Sada Thompson Copy Share Image
You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together,… — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "Death," I said, "any death but… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black,… — King James I Copy Share Image
Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Only that man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
There is much meaning in the word endure. For example, when dealing with unstable human feelings and uneven pathways in life, without… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
I also remember a line from a song by Smog [Bill Callahan], which seems to describe the experience of a town-dweller moving… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
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