The difference between the first and second-best things in art absolutely seems to escape verbal definition -- it is a matter of… — William James Copy Share Image
The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“You know, we should all be so lucky as to lie down in the grass in the cool shade, surrounded by people… — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in… — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck,… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Not forever does the bulbul sing In balmy shades of bowers, Not forever lasts the spring Nor ever blossom the flowers. Not… — Khushwant Singh Copy Share Image
Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades! Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids! O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,--… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
The laws of Pluto's kingdom know small difference between king and cobbler, manager and call-boy; and, if haply your dates of life… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
...the figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Imagine a mosaic picture of a house in the country: lots of red and blue and yellow and black and brown and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
All of us have monarchs and sages for kinsmen; nay, angels and archangels for cousins; since in antediluvian days, the sons of… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
As the mask of deception falls off the face of humanity Unveiling the grim reality of duality In which everyone is a… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
The time is not far off when many nations in many parts of the world of many political shades and commitments will… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
I was raped: I said no and he wouldn't stop. I also had a scar on my back and blood coming out… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader browner shade; Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
If an action must be taken that will benefit the majority at the cost of the minority, is it morally indefensible? If… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
Granted: I AM an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, You moonshine revellers, and shades of night, You orphan heirs of fixed destiny, Attend your office… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“You hide it well, but I can see it, Lord Verniers. You hate us. We have beaten you to obedience but it's… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
Teach me your mood, O patient stars. Who climb each night, the ancient sky. leaving on space no shade, no scars, no… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Most eyes have more than one color, but usually they're related. Blue eyes may have two shades of blue, or blue and… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
..we wear the mask that grins and lies, it hides our cheeks and shades our eyes- this debt we pay to human… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
If I admire my arms, my face, my shoulders, flanks, buttocks against the yellow drawn shades,-- Who shall say I am not… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Oh, 'twould be marvelous if the world and its moral questions were like some game board, with plain black players and white,… — Glen Cook Copy Share Image
We've gotten caught up in thinking we are what we look like, the physical, the exterior. We think we're the lamp shade.… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
Either one of you kill him, or I will.” Shade, Wraith and Kynan raised their hands to volunteer. How special. Brotherly love… — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
Personal prejudice: Hispanic and Latino women with blond hair look like hookers to me, no matter how clean or cute they are.… — John Byrne Copy Share Image
I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one… — L'Wren Scott Copy Share Image
Thanh Hoa itself is a rich agricultural province. Rice fields, a pattern of many shades of green, stretch far into the distance… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Ah, fields beloved in vain! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, A stranger yet to pain!… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
While an ant was wandering under the shade of the tree of Phaeton, a drop of amber enveloped the tiny insect; thus… — Martial Copy Share Image
I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
Just because everyone CAN publish a book these days, doesn't mean everyone SHOULD. The world doesn't need 1000 knock-offs of 50 Shades… — Oliver Gaspirtz Copy Share Image
You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study… — William Merritt Chase Copy Share Image
You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. you say you love sun but you seek… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse; Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
