That was what her parents did not understand—and had never understood—about stories. Liza told herself storied as though she was weaving and… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains - I will remember my old strength and all… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
I've never been comfortable on the top rope or launched myself into dives. — Tommaso Ciampa Copy Share Image
Nixon's the kind of guy that if you were drowning fifty feet off shore, he'd throw you a thirty foot rope. Then… — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
When Amos Moses was a boy his daddy would use him for alligator bait, tie a rope around his neck and throw… — Jerry Reed Copy Share Image
“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all. — Graham Nelson Copy Share Image
Water inflated the belly Of Hart Crane, and of Shelley. Coleridge was a dope. Southwell died on a rope. — Roy Fuller Copy Share Image
I've been asked if I'd consider doing Ropes as a straight novel - which is flattering, I suppose - but I can't… — James Vance Copy Share Image
But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Once Henry had heard a crying noise at sea, and had seen a mermaid floating on the ocean's surface. The mermaid had… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
April 19 And now it is spring. Birds are singing. Wistful notes and jubilant. And bare streets and no need for coats,… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
I go to pick up a girl in a bar. I say will you go home with me? She says I don't… — Emo Philips Copy Share Image
I rope steers in team roping events. There's a header and a heeler on a roping team, and I'm the heeler. — Wilford Brimley Copy Share Image
To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off… — William James Copy Share Image
Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
As the skipping rope hit the pavement, so did the ball. As the rope curved over the head of the jumping child,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
For a good workout, I go to At One Fitness in North Hollywood, where my trainer, Jon Allsop, puts me through it… — Tim DeKay Copy Share Image
