Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Since Stark had come back from the Otherworld, he'd been too weak and out of it to do much more than eat,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a writer you're holding a dog. You let the dog run about. But you finally can pull him back. Finally, I'm… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Under the deluge of minute-to-minute text conversations, emails, relentless exchange of media channels and passwords and apps and reminders and tweets and… — Ariel Garten Copy Share Image
I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The trouble is that once America goes off to war, it can't very well return without having fought one. If it doesn't… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
God has often given His people favor in the sight of heathen masters (as Joseph and Daniel), and has magnified the sufficiency… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the one thing… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Magic is a combination of art and science. It's an art because of the traditional parts of things, the graceful gestures, the… — Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki Copy Share Image
We understand that ISIS is a group that's growing in its governance of territory. It's not just Iraq and Syria. They are… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
T hanks for time to be together, turkey, talk, and tangy weather. H for harvest stored away, home, and hearth, and holiday.… — Aileen Fisher Copy Share Image
Very strange bridges are used to make the passage from one state of things to another; we may lose sight of them… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
Metaphor is, as a common feature of linguistic practice, an incidental expediency, a homely administering of first-aid by mother-wit to jams or… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks;… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
What intelligent being, what being capable of responding emotionally to a beautiful sight, can look at the jagged, silvery lunar crescent trembling… — Camille Flammarion Copy Share Image
“Whether the scouring, sexless eye of the bird or beast of prey disperses and sees all or concentrates and evades all saving… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
It seemed intended by the blessed providence of God that I should be blind all my life, and I thank him for… — Fanny Crosby Copy Share Image
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that… — Francis Pharcellus Church Copy Share Image
What are you thinking?" he asks. I know Gage hates it when I cry - he is completely undone by the sight… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once;… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The witness of the Holy Ghost is even more compelling than the witness of sight. As members of the Church, we become… — Loren C. Dunn Copy Share Image
He came over in long purposeful strides, sat at the edge of her bed, and in a tender, possessive gesture wiped the… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
As to scenery (giving my own thought and feeling), while I know the standard claim is that Yosemite, Niagara Falls, the Upper… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
The process could be likened to relaxing on a riverbank and watching a fish leap out of the water, sparkle for a… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The most effective method of propaganda directed at the enemy forces is to release captured soldiers and give the wounded medical treatment...… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“I should have asked why any room in the house was better than home to me when she entered it, and barren… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
The sight of a Black nun strikes their sentimentality; and, as I am unalterably rooted in native ground, they consider me a… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
A great many people never really discover themselves until ruin stares them in the face. They do not seem to know how… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Perhaps the Doors, Curtains, Surface Pictures, Panes of Glass, etc. are metaphors of despair, prompted by the dilemma that our sense of… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now individual consciousness, as typified in human beings, has great advantages and great disadvantages. Individuality means a narrowing, and narrowness can be… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
Four people wheel out a huge wedding cake from a side room. Most of the guests back up, making way for this… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I was doing big roles and, yeah, everything was going great. In the midst of all that, I guess I had already… — Patricia Mauceri Copy Share Image
And though age and infirmity overtake me, and I come not within sight of the castle of my dreams, teach me still… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
People believe those fairytales about falling in love at first sight at the bus, subway, or at the streets. But it doesn’t… — Tablo Copy Share Image
