Success is transient, evanescent. The real passion lies in the poignant acquisition of knowledge about all the shading and subtleties of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For it is now to us itself ancient; and yet its maker was telling of things already old and weighted with regret,… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
What I really like is an intelligent review. It doesn't have to be positive. A review that has some kind of insight,… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
One of the most poignant pieces of recent science fiction for me was the portrayal of the adults in the Pixar film… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
“I hate these affairs", he'd told her once, tearing up an engraved invitation to an exclusive charity ball. "They're the worst kind… — Melinda Cross Copy Share Image
“Nobody here wants to be awful," he said. He hopped a little as he zipped up. "It's just nobody here knows all… — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a natural rhythm to parent-child interactions, including the fact that some parental insights prove poignant and veridical decades after they… — Gad Saad Copy Share Image
“I also remember defining myself by the people and the things that I hated rather than what I liked, thinking that it… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
“Of all the agonies of life, that which is most poignant and harrowing- that which for the time annihilates all reason and… — William Henry Bulwer Copy Share Image
I may as well tell you, here and now, that if you are going about the place thinking things pretty, you will… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
There are loads of players I could name who are 16-16 looked like world beaters but then at 21-22 they are subs… — Rio Ferdinand Copy Share Image
Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon on puberty, all… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure. But there’s something about the darkness, the stillness of this hour, I think, that creates a language of its… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
Art and the triumph of the human spirit - the two combined thrill me. It's the "Braveheart" moment, the stuff Joseph Campbell… — Kristin Bauer van Straten Copy Share Image
There is parallels these two great men John McCain and Ted Kennedy of great impact in the Senate, you don't agree with… — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
“Later in life, I learnt that many things one may require have to be weighed against one's dignity, which can be an… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Merrie Destefano storms the world of urban fantasy with AFTERLIFE, breathing new life into the vast genre of the undead. Gritty, poignant,… — Tosca Lee Copy Share Image
Jerusalem Maiden is a page-turning and thought-provoking novel. Extraordinary sensory detail vividly conjures another time and place; heroine Esther Kaminsky’s poignant struggle… — Binnie Kirshenbaum Copy Share Image
Except two breeds - the stupid and the narrowly feline - all women have a touch of the Lesbian: an assertion all… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
What we set out to do with this movie [Leaves of Grass] was to create something that was funny and serious and… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We sat down and told stories that happened to us in our childhood, to our children. They were all basically based on… — Howie Mandel Copy Share Image
I've always chosen the roles that aren't the direct lead because I like being a very poignant character in the story, rather… — Chloe Grace Moretz Copy Share Image
“Someday you will die. Because you are embodied through and through, at that point you will cease to exist. You will not… — Owen J. Flanagan Copy Share Image
“My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain...There was a time when our people covered the land… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
Humans and other animals experience love and fear, and form deep emotional bonds with cherished companions. We mourn when a close friend… — Gene Baur Copy Share Image
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image