For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
This girl shivers and crawls under the covers with all her clothes on and falls into an overdue library book, a faerie… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Novelty may fix our attention not even on the service but on the celebrant. You know what I mean. Try as one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hateful material travels the globe. A few years ago, CNN, America's Der Sturmer, ran a story about Black parents being so low… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a… — Edward Hoagland Copy Share Image
For eight years I was an inmate in a state asylum for the insane. During those years I passed through such unbearable… — Frances Farmer Copy Share Image
That's been lost. It's a huge problem. What you have is you have the major institutions of the world all wanting to… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
For the first time in six or seven thousand years, many people of goodwill find themselves confused about art. They want to… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
... the most fiendish plant I know of, the sort of thing Beelzebub might pluck to make a bouquet for his mother-in-law… — Edward Augustus Bowles Copy Share Image
I sat up in bed. "What did he say?" Tyson groaned, still half asleep. He was lying facedown on the couch, his… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Humility is a virtue of the heavenly, not arrogance. Are we the most superior beast on earth? No, not in strength and… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Showing up to games year after year, no matter what the product on the field gives you back, is a learned behavior… — Joe Cowley Copy Share Image
Comrades," he said, "here is a point that must be settled. The wild creatures, such as rats and rabbits–are they our friends… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The eye is the window of the soul, the mouth the door. The intellect, the will, are seen in the eye; the… — Hiram Powers Copy Share Image
“It was cold. Really cold. And there was an awful scurrying noise that definitely belong to a small, four-legged creature.Or even worse,… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
A sickening howl stopped her, sucking the air out of her lungs. The night's chatter silenced, even the loitering city rats pausing… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
“Rodents, on the other hand, are slaves to sweetness. They have been known to die of malnutrition rather than step away from… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
A stork wrapped around a tree branch. Thats the stupidest thing Ive ever seen before. You know thats how the plague started… — Kenny Powers Copy Share Image
Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Every once in a bestseller list, you come across a truly exceptional craftsman, a wordsmith so adept at cutting, shaping, and honing… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
“Hardly had the light been extinguished, when a peculiar trembling began to affect the netting under which the three children lay. It… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Royce cast a harsh and anxious look at the prince. “What?” Alric asked. “I thought we discussed the importance of keeping a… — Michael J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Mice and any rodentia. Guinea pigs. Even rabbits, I can't stand. Rabbits are cousins to rats. It's a class thing. If you… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I think small animals can escape from many kinds of natural disaster more easily. There are just more places for them to… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
If we are to be the last of the White men who conquered the world; if we are finally to be overwhelmed… — George Lincoln Rockwell Copy Share Image
We are like dogs, cats, cows, rats ... What separates us from them and from the remaining matches against mammals is negligible.… — Fernando Vallejo Copy Share Image
I think doctors have really come up to speed and understand that more women than men die of heart disease. [But] all… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Military metaphors are rarely exact, but sending Republicans against Democrats when the issue hangs in the balance is nearly always as futile… — Wesley Pruden Copy Share Image
The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I’ll spend my life training just for the moment I have my chance at you. I’ll wait until you think I’ve forgotten… — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
People who picnic along the public highway leaving a clutter of greasy paper and swill (not a pretty name, but neither is… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image