Thinking very often resembles napping, but the intent is different. --Stephanie Plum — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - just paint Spring. — Dogen Copy Share Image
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,while visions of sugar plums danced in their heads. — Clement Clarke Moore Copy Share Image
beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
[Stephanie Plum]Jeez. No True Love" [Grandma Mazur] There's always been true love, but in my day, you either talked yourself into thinking… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Along the river's summer walk, The withered tufts of asters nod; And trembles on its arid stalk the hoar plum of the… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie open to the blackbird's beak, We shall live well--we shall live very… — Elinor Wylie Copy Share Image
It wasn't exactly that Lula was fat. It was more that she was too short for her weight." - Stephanie Plum — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness -- much as plums have… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Sprigs of plum by the corner of the wall Are blooming alone in the cold; If not for the subtle fragrance drifting… — Wang Anshi Copy Share Image
What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums! Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums! And he stuffed them in bags. Then the Grinch, very… — Dr. Seuss Copy Share Image
Fruits each in its season, are the cheapest, most elegant and wholesome dessert you can offer your family or friends, at luncheon… — Mary Virginia Terhune Copy Share Image
How much more beautiful is the moon, Slanting down the gauffered branches of a plum-tree; The moon Wavering across a bed of… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
Slanders, sir, for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We complain and complain, but we have lived and seen the blossom -apple, pear, cherry, plum, almond blossom - in the sun;… — J. B. Priestley Copy Share Image
Don't order any of the faerie food," said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. "It tends to make… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
We often love to think now of the life of men on beaches,--at least in midsummer, when the weather is serene; their… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I'm swimming, I think that maybe someday I'll put my red Speedo up for auction. Or maybe I'll donate it… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
How wonderful is Cold Mountain Climbers are all afraid The moon shines on clear water twinkle twinkle Wind rustles the tall grass… — Hanshan Copy Share Image
It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I didn't believe in systems. Everything human was imperfect and ultimately absurd. What did I believe in then? In humor. In laughing… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake. If you're interested in the cake, you… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world? — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
Crawley reached into the pocket of his fancy robe - a dinner jacket, I think it's called. The kind of thing Professer… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
My work is the world. Here the sunflowers, there the hummingbird - equal seekers of sweetness. Here the quickening yeast; there the… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
All Englishmen talk as if they've got a bushel of plums stuck in their throats, and then after swallowing them get constipated… — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
Depends on the evening. A good red wine is nice in cold weather. A Claret or a Rioja. I've got a good… — Alan Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
“ This is Just to Say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me,… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“You call me your girl one more time and I’m going to turn your gonads into plums and make jam out of… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
Everybody in Washington wants one of these jobs studies this book. It's called the Plum Book because the people in Washington turn… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
She decides to make a list of the things that make her happy. She writes 'plum-blossom' at the top of a piece… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Indigo has a purifying, stabilizing, cleansing effect when fear, repression, and obsessions have disturbed your mental body. Indigo food vibrations are: blackberries,… — Tae Yun Kim Copy Share Image
Gardening is one of the rewards of middle age, when one is ready for an impersonal passion, a passion that demands patience,… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
Although we have no actual written communications from the world of emptiness, we have some hints or suggestions about what is going… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image