A connoisseur of gastronomy was congratulated on his appointment as a director of indirect contributions at Periguex: and, above all, in the… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The South is the land of the sustained sibilant. Everywhere, for the appreciative visitor, the letter "s" insinuates itself in the scene:… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
For decades Israel has been capturing, and kidnapping Lebanese and Palestinian refugees on the high seas, from Cyprus to Lebanon, killing them… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
...the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Depending on where you live, your threat is much different from the other person. If you ask a New Yorker today, because… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
But who is this, what thing of sea or land,- Female of sex it seems,- That so bedeck'd, ornate, and gay, Comes… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Maybe i would become a mermaid... i would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
One disagreeable result of whispering is that it seems to evoke an atmosphere of silence, haunted by the ghosts of sound -… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There comes the baffling call of God in our lives also. The call of God can never be stated explicitly; it is… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
The men loved jokes, though they had heard each one before. Jack's manner was persuasive; few of them had seen the old… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I have hardly begun to live on Staten Island yet; but, like the man who, when forbidden to tread on English ground,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, a fisherman went out to sea. He caught many fish and threw them all into a large bucket… — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to… — John Donne Copy Share Image
The wind sounds like a silver wire, And from beyond the noon a fire Is pour'd upon the hills, and nigher The… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
I dream that I have found us both again, With spring so many strangers' lives away, And we, so free, Out walking… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the sea great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies. And enormous mother… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow; "I hear the first young hard-bell ring, 'Tis time for… — Charles Godfrey Leland Copy Share Image
A poem, being an instance of language, hence essentially dialogue, may be a letter in a bottle thrown out to the sea… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
I would like to get out to the region in the Caspian sea. I would like to go there. I would like… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Human existence is girt round with mystery: the narrow region of our experience is a small island in the midst of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Much of the attention on oceans has portrayed oceans as a villain. Warm water strengthened Hurricane Katrina that pounded Louisiana. Rising sea… — Mark Powell Copy Share Image
FREE animals of the jungle/air/sea/mountains are called 'wild', 'savage', 'vicious', 'beasts' who defend themselves and their own territories from greedy, ruthless 'brave'… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room, and I realized that out of a… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
A feller's glad to be a friend, Out fishin'. A helpin' hand he'll always lend, Out fishin' The brotherhood of rod and… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Wealth from trade was the mainspring of Western material advance; the visible agents of change were great guns. These came of age… — Peter Padfield Copy Share Image
“The green sea swept into the shallows and seethed there like slaking quicklime. It surged over the rocks, tossing up spangles of… — Colin Thiele Copy Share Image
How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty: most treacherous, indeed, of all… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When we ask what ought to be the relative remunerations of a nurse or a butcher, or a coal miner and a… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The home we seek is in eternity; The Truth we seek is like a shoreless sea, Of which your paradise is but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The weathercocks on spires and housetops were mysterious with hints of stormy wind, and pointed, like so many ghostly fingers, out to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Penelope In the pathway of the sun, In the footsteps of the breeze, Where the world and sky are one, He shall… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
He who has mastery over his incensive power has mastery also over the demons. But anyone who is a slave to it… — Evagrius Ponticus Copy Share Image
As long as you have markets, you'll have excesses. People went crazy with tulip bulbs. They went crazy with the South Sea… — Howard Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
I live in Ireland near the sea, only one mile from where I grew up - that's good, since I've known many… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The aspects of global warming that matter most to people - how rapidly will the seas rise? Are hurricanes already getting stronger?… — Andrew Revkin Copy Share Image
Tell me", he wanted to say, "everything in the whole world" - for he had the wildest, most absurd, extravagant ideas about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
