“You might, without my crediting it, fall deeply in love and forever, with some warped hunchback whelped in the gutter. I should… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
Had we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Jacqueline Woodson's books are such a gift to parents and children for their poignant subtlety and lyricism and their willingness to let… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced — because in our imagination they… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Grief is only the memory of widowed affection. The more intense the delight in the presence of the object, the more poignant… — James Martineau 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
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
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
At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The core cuisine of Southern food is established in the plantation South, within the world of slavery. To understand the plantation table,… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
Christ walked the path every mortal is called to walk so that he would know how to succor and strengthen us in… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
I don't understand why America embraces Lady GaGa and Katy Perry and all of the "pop stuff" as much as they do.… — Matt Thiessen Copy Share Image
...we have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from… — Bruce 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
“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
I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on… — Lance Armstrong 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
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
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
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
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
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
The audience for 'The Fast Show' was much less than 'Harry Enfield and Chums,' but of course 'The Fast Show' was recognised… — Paul Whitehouse 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
