I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
One minute you're closer to someone than anyone in the whole world, next minute they need only to say the words 'time… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
A thousand for his love expired each day, And those who saw his face, in blank dismay Would rave and grieve and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Shut your eyes and you will know what I mean by thought entombed in darkness. Light comes through the senses, and not… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Sitting next to her, Amy was wide-eyed, mesmerized at the sight of Jack heading over in all his seemingly pissed-off-once-again glory. "I… — Julie James Copy Share Image
Women also lose sight of their goals by taking on extra responsibilities. We are virtual responsibility magnets. We don't make these decisions… — Pat Heim Copy Share Image
How quickly do we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story Nightfall, about the planet where the… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Choose your friends carefully. It is they who will lead you in one direction or the other. Everybody wants friends. Everybody needs… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The fundamental problem with golf is that every so often, no matter how lacking you may be in the essential virtues required… — Colin Falconer Copy Share Image
I envisioned huge piles of the Elf Hotel flying off the belt, taking down everybody in sight. I had seen pictures of… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Sight is not faith, and hearing is not faith, neither is feeling faith; but believing when we neither see, hear, nor feel… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
People who write about issues like poverty or terrorism are a part of the elite, and the distance between the elite and… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
That first pregnancy is a long sea journey to a country where you don't know the language, where land is in sight… — Emily Perkins Copy Share Image
On scientific grounds this big bang assumption is much less the palatable of the two. For it is an irrational process that… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
Just in the last week of his life, you could have seen him at Walgreens or at the Electric Fetus, where he… — Steve Rushin Copy Share Image
If you will observe, it doesn't take A man of giant mould to make A giant shadow on the wall; And he… — John Townsend Trowbridge Copy Share Image
We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can; the slaughterhouses are huddled out of sight and never… — William James Copy Share Image
Homesickness is a great teacher. It taught me, during an endless rainy fall, that I came from the arid lands, and like… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
If I may throw out a word of counsel to beginners, it is: Treasure your exceptions! When there are none, the work… — William Bateson Copy Share Image
Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem.… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We're hard-wired by 200,000 years of evolution to be sensitive to the idea that someone might be watching us. They might be… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
“[ The Old Astronomer to His Pupil ] Reach me down my Tycho Brahe , I would know him when we meet,… — Sarah Williams Copy Share Image
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them… — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
He was tall, one of the tallest men she had ever seen. Dressed in jeans, boots and a cotton shirt. Thick black… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
Discovery is adventure. There is an eagerness, touched at times with tenseness, as man moves ahead into the unknown. Walking the wilderness… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
First of all, who's your A&R? A mountain climber who plays an electric guitar? But he don't know the meaning of dope,… — GZA Copy Share Image
Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. If… — Shmuel Yosef Agnon Copy Share Image
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Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The splendor of a human heart that trusts it is loved unconditionally gives God more pleasure than Westminster Cathedral, the Sistine Chapel,… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see; and sight must be reinforced by… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Who hath seen the Phantom Ship, Her lordly rise and lowly dip, Careering o'er the lonesome main, No port shall know her… — Albert Pinkham Ryder Copy Share Image
Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In My Secret Life" "I saw you this morning, you were moving so fast. Can't seem to loosen my grip On the… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I like prostitution. My heart has never failed to pound at the sight of one of those provocatively dressed women walking in… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
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