“all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
you could see the roads crisscrossing over the fields. When cars went by, far away, the beams were so bright they seemed… — Cynthia Kadohata Copy Share Image
Every bit as visceral and hypnotic as its award-winning predecessor, On the Ropes is a tour-de-force of fluid, yet detailed storytelling. — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
It's the ropes and the reins, and the joy and the pain. And they call the thing rodeo. — Garth Brooks Copy Share Image
He was giving me enough rope to hang myself with. Apparently he didn't realize that once a noose is tied it will… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man. — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
“I am what the water gave me, / a smoke-ring in a jar, / the braided rope / my ladder-to-the-light, / my shivering bird heart / caught” — Pascale Petit Copy Share Image
If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight. — Jackie Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the wolf wasn't quite so dangerous as he pretended. Unfortunately, there was only one way to find out for sure——give him… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
I've forgotten more about bad putting than all the lousy putters in the firmament combined. My mind has been twisted into an… — Gary McCord Copy Share Image
It look like the lord just work for wite folks cause ever sens i wasn nothin but a litle boy i been… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I've seen some terrible plays, but I generally enjoy myself. One play I walked out of, I have a tremendous respect for… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
Get yourself a few ‘Dime a Dozen Generals,’ bid high in the ‘former statesmen lobby auction’, and put in your pocket one… — Sibel Edmonds Copy Share Image
I was downright obnoxious. In second grade, we had some program where we kept a public list of all the books we… — Alafair Burke Copy Share Image
Are you, are you coming to the tree? Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me. Strange things did happen… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I'm so fat and I'm so depressed; last night I tried to hang myself - but the rope broke. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's best to sit back and watch others hang themselves with their own rope. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
I'm still at the end of my rope because I find myself not handling things well when I travel. — Stephen Lewis Copy Share Image
Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power,… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior. He who has stood before his God, convicted and… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I just can't see myself with a man on the ropes and just to prove how bad I am - and I… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I have a great tip - I have a jumping rope in the house, and I just do ten minutes of it… — Adriana Lima Copy Share Image
Engaged in a fiery dance, their bodies were linked and seperated by the flashing blades. At times they nearly touched, taut skin… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
I knew he would never leave me, never let me down-because the man had never abandoned anything in his long life. If… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when… — Bobby Bowden Copy Share Image
Once we are bound together to our brothers by a common good that is outside us, then we can breathe. Experience teaches… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
they say in the old tales that when a man and woman exchange looks the way we did, their spirits mingle. their… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
We're all driven to premieres or nightclubs and seen the rope separating those who can enter and those who can't. Well, there's… — Janet Jackson Copy Share Image
“The point is, this rope is even better! I call it Andskoti, the Adversary. It is woven with the most powerful paradoxes… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain,… — Phil McGraw Copy Share Image
Can you accuse me, if a man is putting a rope around my neck, of being violent, when I violently struggle against… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We have to, in the next ten years, begin to decrease the rate of carbon dioxide emissions and then flatten it out.… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
..people are working harder than ever, but because they lack clarity and vision, they aren’t getting very far. They, in essence, are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of… — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
A confidence man knows he’s lying; that limits his scope. But a successful shaman ropes himself first; he believes what he says… — Jubal Copy Share Image
[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I needed more knowledge in rigging and knotting. I started collecting books on knots and really learning more and more. That's how… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
The process of rating players can be compared to the measurement of the position of a cork bobbing up and down on… — Arpad Elo Copy Share Image