I think my favourite song on the album [Second Hand Rapture'] is 'Head Is Not My Home', I love the vocal melody… — Lizzy Plapinger Copy Share Image
But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Act! the wise are known by their actions; fame and immortality are ever their attendants. Mark with deeds the vanishing traces of… — Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis Copy Share Image
Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse. — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
Deep, bone-melting pleasure surged through Kira’s subconscious as he thrust forward again, almost causing her to shout at the crash of rapture… — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart… — John B. Tabb Copy Share Image
There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Tolerance is thin gruel compared to the rapture of absolute truths. It's not surprising that religious people are often better protected by… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
Let the power come. Let ecstasy erupt. Allow your heart to expand and overflow with adoration for this magnificent creation and for… — Ann Mortifee Copy Share Image
“I have drunk the night and swallowed the stars. I am dancing with abandon and singing with rapture. There is not a… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion. — Frederick Scott Oliver Copy Share Image
Great Love has many attributes, and shrines For varied worshippers, but his force divine Shows most its many-named fulness in the man… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
As a thinker I keep discovering that beauty itself is as much a fact, and a mystery...I consider nature's facts -- its… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“He started to wonder if maybe they had been raptured while he was in school. He always worried the Lord would show… — Rachel Autumn Deering Copy Share Image
The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God. — Rumi Copy Share Image
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle: and patriotism… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Bring your mind to noble silence. Unify your mind in noble silence. Concentrate your mind in noble silence... Enter into rapture and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy. — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
