Someone like you makes the sun shine brighter. Someone like you makes a sigh half a smile. Someone like you makes my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So many people seem to imagine that because the actual tools of writing are easily accessible, it is less difficult than the… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
The clothes chosen for me as a child had a strong element of the Pre-Raphaelite, muted greens and ivories, dusty rose, what… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I think our society is no longer properly valuing the intangible potential of innovation, even if we have to be a little… — Dean Kamen Copy Share Image
The rule seems to be that there are no absolutes, that what is rare is prized. Thus, in times of relative affluence,… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
How do the stems connect to the roots?' 'Where is the mist coming from?' 'Why does one tree seem darker than another?'… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Now when I hear about someone's illness, no matter what dire their predicament seems to be, I know that if they're willing… — Louise Hay Copy Share Image
We all want survival, safety, security, peace, prosperity, opportunity, health, happiness, and love. Yet we seem utterly unable to produce it for… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The wind-shak'd surge, with high and monstrous main, Seems to cast water on the burning Bear, And quench the guards of the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Moving cities are a fairly hoary old sci-fi trope - I seem to recall they were always cropping up on 'Doctor Who'… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
I believe from my many experiences that the spirit world is more real, more solid, than this earth in which we live.… — Rosemary Altea Copy Share Image
Repaying the debt of these ultimate sacrifices seems nearly impossible but we must try. — Michael N. Castle Copy Share Image
If England was what England seems, An not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an' paint, 'Ow quick we'd… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
Little wonder that we. . .find the old pictures of openness - pictures usually without any blur, and made by what seems… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Elephants suffer from too much patience. Their exhibitions of it may seem superb,-such power and such restraint, combined, are noble,-but a quality… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
I do have a collection of mid-century, small-press science fiction and fantasy hardcovers that is my most focused and dedicated collection. Everything… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy. — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
But it seems impossible to speak and yet say nothing, you think you have succeeded, but you always overlook something. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
You think you have some stable talent which will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
the term 'young adults' which is so often used today seems to me a misnomer, and one which, if taken seriously, may… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Go, lovely rose, Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
Most of the world's great souls have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness...… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
People are given a false alternative: the choice between an unenlightened belief and an enlightened unbelief. Most intellectuals seem to pay homage… — Eugen Drewermann Copy Share Image
It seems like the older I get, the more unreal the world becomes. — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give… — Adam Garcia Copy Share Image
I remember [in teenage years] thinking there were a lot of check boxes out there to sort teens into appropriate molds, and… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The Parisian has his amusements as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection… — William Cullen Bryant Copy Share Image
Hamlet 's character is the prevalence of the abstracting and generalizing habit over the practical. He does not want courage, skill, will,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is… — Charles Edward Montague Copy Share Image
a lot of trouble has been caused by memoirs. Indiscreet revelations, that sort of thing. People who have been close as an… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Well, I think in trying to make life seem real enough that one is moved to do something about the more atrocious… — Jenny Holzer Copy Share Image