The Ripe FigNow that You live here in my chest,anywhere we sit is a mountaintop.And those other images,which have enchanted peoplelike porcelain… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“What have you done to it, Monkeyman? - he breathed. - Well, - said Arthur, - nothing in fact. It's just that… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“when it came to listening my mother taught me silence if you are drowning their voice with yours how will you hear… — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
“It is pointless to ask: Why then is sex so secret? What is this force that so long reduced it to silence… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“I don’t understand someone like you! You let people create rumors about you! Yes, they set you up, but do you know… — Eunice Amnell Copy Share Image
“There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
We listen too much to the telephone and we listen too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A… — Andre Kostelanetz Copy Share Image
You have to keep people engaged until you get them through the next commercial. I'm not complaining about working in TV, at… — Charlie Hunnam Copy Share Image
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes that 'if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort,… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
See, once you have begun to experience solitude and silence, you discover that you actually have a soul and that there is… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
What struck me most was the silence. It was a great silence, unlike any I have encountered on Earth, so vast and… — Alexey Leonov Copy Share Image
The importance of immobility and silence to photographic authority, the nonfilmic nature of this authority, leads me to some remarks on the… — Christian Metz Copy Share Image
“In the silence that followed, I was aware of just how much I wished things were different. I wanted to be able… — Morgan Matson Copy Share Image
The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
I am indebted to anyone who has ever written anything. I am indebted to the unknown carver of pictograms on a gallery… — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
“You think you're different.” Her voice wavered, and she hated sounding so weak. “You think you're all so different,” she went on,… — Kelly Creagh Copy Share Image
In place of our exhaustion and spiritual fatigue, God will give us rest. All He asks is that we come to Him...that… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Now the mountains were getting that pink tinge, I mean the rocks, they were just solid rock covered with the atoms of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“The MIT physicist and award-winning novelist Alan Lightman also leverages grand gestures. In his case, he retreats each summer to a “tiny… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“When you come to the ultimate experience in meditation, when you come to your deepest core, you are no one. You are… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
dissonance, n. Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk to you and you won't.… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“The group sat in silence, absorbing the information. The whole room felt cramped. It was as though there were something else in… — Bella Forrest Copy Share Image
Men! F@*k! this ish this stuff is difficult to compose once it surfaces it impossible to decompose… now! Pause give meeee a… — Londa Ntombela Copy Share Image
America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Isolation offered its own form of companionship: the reliable silence of her rooms, the steadfast tranquility of the evenings. The promise that… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“I was not too impressed with human language; it seemed absurdly limited. There was so much that couldn’t be put into words.… — Alexandra Adornetto Copy Share Image
You don't need to diet, She-Body. You are a just-right female." "McNab?" Eve said. "Yes, sir." "Shut up." "It's all right, Dallas.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing engenders in us certain attitudes toward language. It encourages us to take words for granted. Writing has enabled us to store… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
“I see,” she said softly, nodding her head as though she really did. “Well, it’s your business, of course.” She turned her… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
If ever you do go back, what is it you want of Evesham?" "Do I know? [...] The silence, it might be… — Ellis Peters Copy Share Image
Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Reconquer the streets, the markets - the public spaces, with the same message of opposition: We are devastated, but we will not… — Jens Stoltenberg Copy Share Image
“...and to forget one's own sharp absurd little personality, reputation and the rest of it, one should read; see outsiders; think more;… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Maybe children just want whatever it is they don't get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted,… — Laura Moriarty Copy Share Image
“Let him tell them the truth. Before the Gospel is a word, it is silence. It is the silence of their own… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Under the leaden sway of Alexander III's government, the silence of the graveyard prevailed. Russian society, equally discouraged by the collapse of… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“I had the feeling she was going to say something big. One of us had to say it. What happened to us?… — Heather Duffy Stone Copy Share Image
The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
At some of the darkest moments in my life, some people I thought of as friends deserted me-some because they cared about… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image