I started reading contemporary fiction in college or right after college. It wasn't as if I was steeped in experimental minimalism when… — Leni Zumas Copy Share Image
A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think in both of those situations, it's important as an actor to learn, despite the success I had as a kid,… — Anthony Michael Hall Copy Share Image
Rin slept inside the oak’s thought. Its own memories of weather and growth continued to hum, and like a pond, its stillness… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Could two live that way? Could two live under the wild rose, and explore by the pond, so that the smooth mind… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
When I was really young I used to collect frog spawn. I made a pond out of an old sink and I… — Beth Orton Copy Share Image
We need to take action to develop compassion, to create inner peace within ourselves and to share that inner peace with our… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
This gown, is it cut from shadow?" the general asked. "I can barely feel it between my fingers." Not for want of… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Oh, well. Everyone else has suave, cosmopolitan sheep: why not us? The Millers at Hepple have a ewe that’s been to Kelso… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
Cogg would suddenly stand stock still. "Listen," he would say. Some feeble quack would be heard from the willow beyond the pond.… — Stephen Potter Copy Share Image
When you make a decision and a commitment to do something good for yourself, it is like dropping a pebble in a… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her eyes looking back do… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power.… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It happens from time to time in every complex and active society, that certain persons feel the complexity and insistence as a… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were opening out. I feel closer to what language… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
What is life unless you're having a good time? I don't really have a plan; I just try to dip my toes… — Douglas Booth Copy Share Image
The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond clear water in it. Some shady… — Anna Sewell Copy Share Image
River Song? Amy Pond? Hardly weak women. It's the exact opposite. You could accuse me of having a fetish for powerful, sexy… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
You cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get… — Masaru Emoto Copy Share Image
As our listeners will know, unless they've taken refuge at the bottom of a garden pond or somewhere similar, You-Know-Who's strategy of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With watercolour, you can pick up the atmosphere, the temperature, the sound of snow shifting through the trees or over the ice… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
I wrote a song at age five about algae on the pond by our house, then the next 'real' song was in… — Greta Salpeter Copy Share Image
A pure drop of rain may fall on a beautiful water lily or on a dirty mud pond! This is exactly what… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Listen -- strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from… — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
To grow old is to lose everything. Aging, everybody knows it. Even when we are young, we glimpse it sometimes, and nod… — Donald Hall Copy Share Image
A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I like to sit on the front porch of an old cabin I built in the woods and just listen to the… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
The man who runs from his office to the golf club, gulps a sandwich, belches and races to the first tee has… — Tony Lema Copy Share Image
The IRS wants you to use this form because it gets to keep most of your money. So unless you have pond… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
To science, not even the bark of a tree or a drop of pond water is dull or a handful of dirt… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The seeds of the life of fishes are everywhere disseminated, whether the winds waft them, or the waters float them, or the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
And strangely enoughthe only emotion I ever feel, is what the beaver must feel, as he bears each stick to his hidden… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
What we would like to do is change the world...by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor,… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Interesting thing, these fellows never seem to get the idea of perspective-' The Bursar thought, or received the thought: that's because perspective… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I hear voices. A shout. A laugh. Clay's laugh. I strained to see through the night. Fog had rolled in from Lake… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image