Cruel, but composed and bland, Dumb, inscrutable and grand, So Tiberius might have sat, Had Tiberius been a cat. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone… — Clifford Odets Copy Share Image
As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking about life. Was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't want to have to be like a Scarlett Johansson - who I have nothing against - but I don't want… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
I wanted to use a totally different part of my brain. It's quite scary at times. I went for learning to fly… — Jay Kay Copy Share Image
There are no tests similar to SATs to tell us how much undergraduates know. State legislators, who appropriate billions of dollars each… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
I blinked the sleep out of my eyes and realized my head was in Khufu’s lap. The baboon was foraging my scalp… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Little House was very happy as she sat on the hill and watched the countryside around her. She watched the sun… — Virginia Lee Burton Copy Share Image
I'm pretty good at inventing phrases - you know, the sort of words that suddenly make you jump, almost as though you'd… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Oh, thou did'st then ne'er love so heartily. If thou rememb'rest not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
So, cutting the lashing of the waterproof match keg, after many failures Starbuck contrived to ignite the lamp in the lantern; then… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I can't relate to the idea of suicide. I guess I'm just one of those people that is always optimistic and upbeat.… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
I suspect the I.Q., SAT, and school grades are tests designed by nerds so they can get high scores in order to… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Orma moved a pile of books off a stool for me but seated himself directly on another stack. This habit of his… — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image
Passing the SAT: My personal theory is that it has to do with how much money you send them in the mail.… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I changed my hopes to being a singer [when I was a child] and sat around with my hair in my face… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
Did you think that the missionary path was all glory? Than you have not read of God's greatest Messenger to earth, who… — Isobel Miller Kuhn Copy Share Image
He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I prefer a much looser style. Any time a writer thinks he has all the answers to how someone should talk or… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
Almost everywhere else in Europe, the more military the state, the stronger the king - except in Britain. Here it was parliament,… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
In September of 1960, I was blessed - and I'm not saying blessed in the everyday religious way - when Temple University… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
In the afternoon, the king and queen sat to hear the business of their kingdom. At least, the queen sat to hear… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I served as a missionary for my church. I served as a pastor in my congregation for about 10 years. I’ve sat… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I mean it wasn't that they sat around thinking oh gosh I needed more choices in my grocery stores the way I… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
I think we stumbled onto our own sort of lore back in high school. We weren't with the drinkers, we were more… — Avey Tare Copy Share Image
Yesterday I sat in a field of violets for a long time perfectly still, until I really sank into it - into… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up… — Joey Santiago Copy Share Image
When I have sat at home with this God-given talent for music for a long time, somebody approaches me out of the… — Jeremy Spencer Copy Share Image
Field of Dreams is the only movie - and I saw it in the theater - on an afternoon when I was… — Paul Reiser Copy Share Image
instead, we just sat there, together but really apart, watching a show about a stranger and all her secrets, while keeping our… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
There was nothing particularly intimate about the way they sat, but something about the scene made Gansey feel strange, like he’d heard… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
It's a good thing we're pretty to look at," I said as Lend sat down on the orange plastic seats next to… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
At some of our most competitive universities, 17 times the amount of students that can go to the school, apply. And these… — Jonathan Grayer Copy Share Image
I love you," he said. "You're more dear to my heart than I ever knew anyone else can be. And I've made… — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image