I didn't learn how to read and write until pretty late, and it was this very mysterious, incredible thing, like driving, that… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
In those days, when my hands were much employed, I read but little, but the least scraps of paper which lay on… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
She tore a page from the book and ripped it in half. Then a chapter. Soon, there was nothing but scraps of… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Computer chips will cost about a penny. That's the cost of scrap paper. The Internet will be basically for free and it… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
Noticing and remembering everything would trap bright scenes to light and fill the blank and darkening past which was already piling up… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
There are moments when I can wander through my childhood's landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
It's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs. When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
If a politician isn't perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
While snow the window-panes bedim, The fire curls up a sunny charm, Where, creaming o'er the pitcher's rim, The flowering ale is… — John Clare Copy Share Image
The philosophers of industrialism, from Bacon to Bentham, from Smith to Marx, insisted that the improvement of man's condition was the highest… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history,… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
I write on scraps of paper. I do it every other day. I write about people's lives or how people look or… — Tommy Wiseau Copy Share Image
I must say a few words about memory. It is full of holes. If you were to lay it out upon a… — David Ebershoff Copy Share Image
Work almost always has a double aspect: it is a bondage, a wearisome drudgery; but it is also a source of interest,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
If I could distil the relevance of Bruce Springsteen's music to Australia it would be this: don't let what has happened to… — Wayne Swan Copy Share Image
Even now, Dickon was upstairs, writing sonnets to his new love, while back at Seadown House, Marianne was writing 'Ella' on scraps… — Jessica Day George Copy Share Image
It seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The great, the rich, the powerful, too often bestow their favours upon their inferiors in the manner they bestow their scraps upontheir… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it never Rises from the soul, and sways The heart of every single hearer,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Our economy is a plantation run for the aristocrats - the CEOs, hedge funds, private equity firms - while the field hands… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
I made a very bad mistake; I miscounted these scraps of information on the record as 92, and in continual homage to… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
