In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see the people of the world exactly at the moment when they first attained the… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Food, medicine, beauty, and love. When we talk about them in English, they seem so different from each other. But looking at… — Alma Hogan Snell Copy Share Image
It seems to me that invisibility is the required provision of elegance. Elegance ceases to exist when it is noticed. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
My vocation is to write and I have known this for a long time. I hope I won't be misunderstood; I know… — Natalia Ginzburg Copy Share Image
As far as I can see, our concentration of different abilities in one species - there's nothing I can see that in… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Men's and nations' finest hour consist of those moments when extraordinary challenge is met by extraordinary response. Hence in those darkest hours,… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
I think we need leadership that can gently and with affection remind us of what we Americans mostly agree upon: civility, kindness,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
I couldn't decide on a title for my first novel and my editor came up with Everything Good Will Come. After that,… — Sefi Atta Copy Share Image
My love for you tonight is so deep and tender that it seems to be outside myself as well. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
When we pray, it's the Holy Spirit Who makes the divine presence real to our spirits, and then we seem to 'feel… — Chris Oyakhilome Copy Share Image
It must be an odd feeling to be thankful to nobody in particular. Christians in public institutions often see this odd thing… — Cornelius Plantinga Copy Share Image
When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Some people do not seem to grasp that I still have to sit down in peace and write the books, apparently believing… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I don't reinvent myself in any major way. It seems to be a slow evolution. I go back and visit certain themes… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
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
