I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. "There is not a leaf rotting on the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The work I did in Vertigo meant nothing if no one cared about the movie. Luckily, Vertigo had a revival and people… — Kim Novak Copy Share Image
The walk between our house and the bus stop is marked by decay and wreckage. A row of shops, flats, community centres… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I'm a phallus in pigtails, and there's blood on my nose, and my tissue is rotting where the rats chew my bones.… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
There was nowhere to sit except the bunk, which was covered with rotting food, and a wooden stool, upon which sat a… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
A man should not love the moon. An ax should not lose weight in his hand. His garden should smell of rotting… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
He saw a picture in his mind of a terrible piling up of the dead. It came from his contemplation of the… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
“I look around. We are inside the incinerator, which would be completely dark if not for the lines of light glowing in… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, "people without lives." We don't care.… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
He stepped back with exaggerated courtesy. But when I walked past him, he swatted my rump. Hard enough to sting. “You need… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Everybody's always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a blood pressure… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
When the Labor Department is forced to relent and let these visitors do this work it is of course all legal. But… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Believing is a fine thing, but placing those beliefs into execution is a test of strength. Many are those who talk like… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
There is something about poverty that smells like death.Dead dreams dropping off theheart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
My death could, in fact, save him. If it can't, no matter. It's enough to die of spite. To punish Haymitch, who,… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Whene'er with haggard eyes I view This dungeon that I'm rotting in, I think of those companions true Who studied with me… — George Canning Copy Share Image
He looked at the piles of food again, and it was like he was seeing it with new eyes. This is wrong,… — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
I've found what I was looking for, Child: what people call love between a man and a woman is a season. And… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Fruit often ends up rotting in the crisper drawer. Well, that's the wrong place to put it. Out of sight, out of… — Tyler Florence Copy Share Image
Darkness can be funny. It can be quirky. There are different ways that that stuff comes out as a creative person. But… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
“I am alone. Alone except for the sirens, alone except for the burning, empty city on the edge of a rotting, pollutedriver… — Caitlin Kittredge Copy Share Image
“Not that there's anything wrong with just lying around on your back. In it's way, rotting is interesting too, as we will… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
With a weak and rotting core, you don't have much of a foreign policy. You're discounted at the negotiating table, economically and… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
I don't see [the jungle] so much erotic. I see it more full of obscenity. It's just - Nature here is vile… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
There is more food in the world than we could possibly use. There's a huge surplus of food per capita, but it's… — Benjamin Creme Copy Share Image
I will now direct the attention of scientists to a previously unnoticed cause which brings about the metamorphosis and decomposition phenomena which… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It was only when I lay there on the rotting prison straw that I sensed within myself the first stirrings of good.… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
The universe is a vast system of exchange. Every artery of it is in motion, throbbing with reciprocity, from the planet to… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
First, I emptied the closets of your clothes, threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised from your touch, left empty the jars… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
“ 'I scrape under a nail and I pull out dirt. I pull off an overlay and I smell urine. It's the… — Vicki Pettersson Copy Share Image
He who shall teach the child to doubtThe rotting grave shall ne'er get out. — William Blake Copy Share Image
An aching tooth is better out than in. To lose a rotting member is a gain. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
“I will never sign anything over to you, ever, you dog-breath, rotting corpse of a king.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image