Avoid the ecstatic adjectives that occupy such disproportionate space in every critic's quiver - words like "enthralling" and "luminous." — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Sand-strewn caverns, cool and deep, Where the winds are all asleep; Where the spent lights quiver and gleam; Where the salt weed… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The naked earth is warm with Spring, And with green grass and bursting trees Leans to the sun's kiss glorying, And quivers… — Julian Grenfell Copy Share Image
Criticism and rejection are not personal insults, but your artistic component will not know that. It will quiver and wince and run… — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Walking on the land or digging in the fine soil I am intensely aware that time quivers slightly, changes occurring in imperceptible… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I saw something once that I can't explain, that doesn't make them real. And if a trick of the dark gave… — Charlie Huston Copy Share Image
I am like a huge rough stone...and the only polishing I get is when some corner gets rubbed off by coming in… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
Man, do you think yours is the only soul? Look around you. Everything that you see quivers with being. Though your thoughts… — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
A disease-free body, quiver-free breath, stress-free mind, inhibition-free intellect, obsession-free memory, ego that includes all, and soul which is free from sorrow… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
I stand stark naked in front of the mirror and gaze directly into my own eyes. I utter 'Good morning, handsome' and… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
As I lay down my pen, let me record my immovable conviction that this is the noblest service in which any human… — John Gibson Paton Copy Share Image
There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and broken grass-blades trembling in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wonder what a soul…a person's soul…would look like,' said Priscilla dreamily. 'Like that, I should think,' answered Anne, pointing to a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I find very reasonable the Celtic belief that the souls of our dearly departed are trapped in some inferior being, in an… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
You know, a landscape painter's day is delightful. You get up early, at three o'clock in the morning, before sunrise; you go… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
The pulp hero, though he may be a renegade, is a guy who doesn't feel. Anything. Ever. And for the adolescent male… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
A nation which lives a pastoral and innocent life never decorates the shepherd's staff or the plough-handle; but races who live by… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
We are in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The name 'Seventh-day Adventist' carries the true features of our faith in front and will convict the inquiring mind. Like an arrow… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
The difference between the first and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition -- it is a matter of… — William James Copy Share Image
The idea of accountability in Vietnam, Nicaragua and now Iraq - the media never has that in its quiver. When you see… — Haskell Wexler Copy Share Image
She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
All there is responds to a word of praise. God responds. We respond. Everything responds. The whole world sparkles, quivers, comes alive.… — James Dillet Freeman Copy Share Image
Came to . . . see you.” “But I had to go home, remember? You were supposed to say good-bye.” “Don't know… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers. — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Look, I'm smiling at you, I'm smiling in you, I'm smiling through you. How can I be dead if I breathe in… — Andrei Sinyavsky Copy Share Image
How to sustain the miracle Of being, that like a muted bell, Or like some ocean-breathing shell, Quivers, intense and still? — Babette Deutsch Copy Share Image
Wind moving through grass so that the grass quivers. This moves me with an emotion I don't even understand. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
When you're gripped by anxiety, worry, insomnia, or panic, make yourself shiver, quiver, tremble, and shudder. It seems silly, but it really… — Jude Bijou Copy Share Image
The day is done; and slowly from the scene the stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, and puts them back into his… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image