Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks,… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
My first job was with the Burns Detective Agency. They sent me over to the East River to guard coal barges during… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
Folks have a common misconception that Mississippi is strictly a rural, outdoors state. While we are famous for our hunting, sport fishing… — Gregg Harper Copy Share Image
I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing--for one of those bouts that go on and on, round… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
When married, you're a 1 woman man, when single, you're a 1 woman man! Live like she's out there and stop goofin… — Andy Mineo Copy Share Image
For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of kings... All murdered; for within… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Evidence of this [transformation of animals into fossils] is that parts of aquatic animals and perhaps of naval gear are found in… — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
From behind a wooden crate we saw a long black-muzzled nose poking round at us. We took him out-soft, wobbly, tearful; set… — John Galsworthy Copy Share Image
I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
Remember the basic rule. Make friends with your caddie and the game will make friends with you. How true this is. It… — Stephen Potter Copy Share Image
Because of my pride in my Scottish heritage, I used to say things like 'I don't mind buying a round of drinks… — Rod Stewart Copy Share Image
Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are!… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
A Morning Prayer The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It's the 50th year of Doctor Who and look what's going on! We're up in the sky and under the sea! We're… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
Throughout the 64-day campaign, events and activities for peace and nonviolence take place all around the world, highlighting existing peacebuilding initiatives and… — Robert Alan Aurthur Copy Share Image
The man who can see all gray, and red, and purples in a peach, will paint the peach rightly round, and rightly… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When Newton saw an apple fall, he found In that slight startle from his contemplation- 'Tis said (for I'll not answer above… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Norfolk would not be Norfolk without a church tower on the horizon or round a corner up a lane. We cannot spare… — John Betjeman Copy Share Image
You could say one wine is like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz while another is like the mature Judy Garland, or… — Karen MacNeil Copy Share Image
I am impressed by the progress the RNC has made in the last year to engage Latino communities across the country. I… — Luis Fortuno Copy Share Image
President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner have agreed to play a round of golf together. Imagine the two of them at… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Throughout the course [of Twilight], you get to see a little more of her vampiric side, because I think she's this vampire… — Ashley Greene Copy Share Image
Getting up to Zaire - getting ready to fight Muhammad Ali - I thought this will be a matter of just a… — George Foreman Copy Share Image
We saw Time's varied traces Were deep on every hand - Indeed, upon the people, More marked than on the land. The… — Eliza R. Snow Copy Share Image
I see Professionalism as a spreading disease of the present-day world, a sort of poly-oligarchy by which various groups (subway conductors, social… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
I simply don't understand the refugee crisis. The history of humanity can be told through a story of migration and settlement. If… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
When my mother died, my father was in a crisis, my sister was in a crisis, everyone was in a crisis. I… — Stuart Rose Copy Share Image