He lowered the window, and looked out at the rising sun. There was a ridge of ploughed land, with a plough upon… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The unhappy are egoistic, spiteful, unjust, cruel, and less capable of understanding each other than fools. Unhappiness does not bring people together… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Yeah, no one really grows up competing in the bobsled. You have to be 16 years old before you can even drive… — Elana Meyers Copy Share Image
People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Evening is the delight of virtuous age; it seems an emblem of the tranquil close of busy life--serene, placid, and mild, with… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
It becomes the moralist, too, to inquire what man might do to improve and beautify the system; what to make the stars… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I have been to non-denominational churches like National Community Church in Washington D.C., but I've also gone to Lake Placid Baptist and… — Elana Meyers Copy Share Image
My mother was a domestic goddess and Mother Earth figure. She was sweet and placid - just what the perfect wife was… — Joan Collins Copy Share Image
What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale revolution. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Golf cannot be played in anger, or in any mood of emotiional excess. Half the golf balls struck by amateurs are hit… — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid. It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to… — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
Typically with HBO shows, the ninth episode often winds up being a big one and when lots of exciting stuff happens. And… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
Americans and other Westerners who want their families to enjoy the blessings of life in a free society should understand that the… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Absolutely nothing was happening in my marriage. I nicknamed my waterbed, Lake Placid! — Phyllis Diller Copy Share Image
Like an animal, cancer sleeps, prowls, hibernates, turns surly or placid. — Marni Jackson Copy Share Image
When Heraclitus said that everything passes steadily along, he was not inciting us to make the best of the moment, an idea… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
“Even if there are moments during the day when all seems normal and when every action of your own and of those… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Quite often, and in fact more often, I would say, I'm struggling all the way through to think, "What is it I… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you've got… — Joan Sutherland Copy Share Image
Do you know we are being led to Slaughters by placid admirals & that fat slow generals are getting Obscene on young… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
