When the white race broke out of Europe 500 years ago, it did many astounding things all over the globe. Inspired by… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is past; there is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Nobody ever left the presidency with less regret, less disappointment, fewer heart burnings, or any general content with the result of his… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
One way can be learned by starting to see the magic in everything. Sometimes it seems to be hiding but it is… — Joshua Kadison Copy Share Image
Summertime And the living is easy Fish are jumpin' And the cotton is high Oh, your daddy's rich And your mama's good… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
Theater of Cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
It's that moon again, slung so fat and low in the tropical night, calling out across a curdled sky and into the… — Jeff Lindsay Copy Share Image
I trembled to think of a world without stars. No guide for the sailor to trust at see, no jewels to dazzle… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
I thought that perhaps if the sky was truly free of clouds and any other distractions (birds, kites, skywriting), we could see… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
Every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that… — John Gould Copy Share Image
the darkness is a cresting wave. It sweeps me up out of my body until I float among the stars, those tine… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Copy Share Image
... I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh… — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
I think for a minute. Watching my wife fade into the distance, I put a hand on my heart. "Dead." I wave… — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
Touch your inner space, which is nothingness, as silent and empty as the sky; it is your inner sky. Once you settle… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Come, fly with me!" cried the goddess, as she sped ahead of them, her extremities flaming with a comet tail of sparks… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“A falcon hovers at the edge of the sky. Two gulls drift slowly up the river. Vulnerable while they ride the wind,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
My fine visions are all very well, but I must not forget they are absolutely unreal. I have a rosy sky and… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will," she says. The sky is like a monochromatic contemporary painting, drawing me in with… — John Green Copy Share Image
No clouds gathered in the skies and the polluted streams became clear, whilst celestial music rang through the air and the angels… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The shed of leaves became a cascade of red and gold and after a time the trees stood skeletal against a sky… — James Carlos Blake Copy Share Image
We'll all go out together when we go. Yes, we'll all go out together when we go. Oh, how the world will… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are faint stars in the night sky that you can see, but only if you look to the side of where… — Janna Levin Copy Share Image
After a duration of a thousand years, the power of astrology broke down when, with Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, the progress of… — Franz Cumont Copy Share Image
In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Before I joined Kraftwerk in 1971, I played guitar in a band called Spirits of Sound, whose members included (at times) amongst… — Michael Rother Copy Share Image
The grass he walked through was new and a sweet smell clung to his clothes. There was blue dye on his hands… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
And when you look at the sky you know you are looking at stars which are hundreds and thousands of light-years away… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Around me the moonlight glittered on the pebbles of the llano, and in the night sky a million stars sparkled. Across the… — Rudolfo Anaya Copy Share Image
God is a God of galaxies, of storms, of roaring seas and boiling thunder, but He is also the God of bread… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
How easy it is to see your brother's faults, How hard it is to face your own. You winnow his in the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Bean finds the best apple in our tree and hands it up to me. "You know what this tastes like when you… — Rodman Philbrick Copy Share Image
In harmony with the Tao, the sky is clear and spacious, the earth is solid and full, all creature flourish together, content… — Laozi Copy Share Image
There's a famous quotation from the time the Buddha learned of the deaths of two of his greatest disciples: "It's as if… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image