We [tend to] have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We [often feel that we] cannot derive… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart… — Andrew Harvey Copy Share Image
It was a bizarre existence I led in my early twenties - that cliche of the comedian who goes out and entertains… — Paul Merton Copy Share Image
[For Before the Dawn] it was in the hands of a fantastic drummer and percussionist and who drove it into another moment… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Kirk Cameron pulls no punches in his exploration of mankind's greatest dilemma. Unstoppable is a captivating, raw, and candid journey that gracefully… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
“We all have the best laid plans for our children, and they go and ruin it all by growing up any way… — Kristina Riggle Copy Share Image
From Kelsey, I have learned among many other things the value of turning on a dime and how you can have an… — David Hyde Pierce Copy Share Image
Hiroshima”, I find a few of the lines to be very poignant yet hopeful. These lines are: “But in Hiroshima, some people… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Men towering high above such political pygmies, men of refinement, of culture, of ability, are jeered into silence as mollycoddles. It is… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Magical, yes, but THE SNOW CHILD is also satisfyingly realistic in its depiction of 1920s homestead-era Alaska and the people who settled… — Andromeda Romano-Lax Copy Share Image
When you're 21 you think, "Old people sound like this. Old people think like this." I don't think my ideas about aging… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
Vividly imagined, beautifully written, at times almost unbearably suspenseful-the stories in Kristiana Kahakauwila's debut collection, This Is Paradise, are boldly inventive in… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“This here is your inheritance, says the senior partner. Yes, he says, Ludwig, I know, and stows the plan for the bathing… — Jenny Erpenbeck Copy Share Image
Raw and delicate, poignant and poetic, Shelby Smoak’s Bleeder exposes the sorrow and sometimes sweetness of coming to age with HIV. In… — Jenny Boully Copy Share Image
People are unhappy because they don't understand life; by happy, I mean complete, aware, conscious, poignant, caring, loving, unaffected, cosmic, simplistic, humble,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart…The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
I've gotten literally thousands of contacts from people across the country - and the most poignant ones being elderly people - who… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Rachael Sage is a marvelous young artist- and I am a fan!! 'Haunted by You' has a beauty that shines through her… — Judy Collins Copy Share Image
Medicine may be the lens through which I see the world, but since I think of medicine as 'life +', a place… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Kaethe Schwehn's poignant memoir explores longing, both spiritual and physical, community and faith, in prose that is calm, lovely, and filled with… — Dinty W. Moore Copy Share Image
I think the most important thing journalism taught me is to mine for details. The details are key. You can't try to… — Karen Abbott Copy Share Image
The niceties of existence were not a matter of concern, yet everything around was closed down most of the time. If you… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
It was, when I read it, I thought, such a beautiful script. I loved the story. I thought it was well handled.… — Jennifer Connelly Copy Share Image
Longing becomes more poignant if in the distance you can't tell whether your friend is going away or coming back. The pushing… — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
Songs are great. I love songs. I sing them in the shower sometimes. They can be poignant or cheery or angry, and… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in… — James Mercer Copy Share Image
Poetry, I think, intensifies the reader's experience. If it's a humorous facet of the story, poetry makes it more exuberant. If it's… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
“Make love to me,” she whispered. “If you make love to me then it is two of us. There is just one… — Louise Murphy Copy Share Image
“He and I had already had our time, and though it was still very close and real to me, as beautiful and… — Paula McLain Copy Share Image
Whatever else be lost among the years, Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing: Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears,… — Grace Noll Crowell Copy Share Image
If I am content to heal a hurt slightly, saying "Peace, peace," where is no peace; if I forget the poignant word… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
A richly detailed, poignant, and utterly fascinating look into another culture and how it is cross-pollinated by our own. It brings to… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
If you think about people's lives, you think about what's significant. And the things I find significant in my life are not… — Patrick Wang Copy Share Image
My songs are all about celebrating poignant music. While some of them focus on fun and revelry, they are fortunately backed by… — Kailash Kher Copy Share Image
Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
That to me was the most poignant part of Diana's wedding; as she was walking up the aisle and her eyes were… — Bruce Oldfield Copy Share Image
I think it's poignant and powerful, this idea that if someone knows your name, they have the ability to kind of hail… — Katie Kitamura Copy Share Image
For a while I shall still be leaving, looking back at you as you slip away into the magic islands of the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
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