Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains with their right aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The grey nurse resumed her knitting as Peter Walsh, on the hot seat beside her, began snoring. In her grey dress, moving… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You will find a spring by the dwelling of the dead, to the left. Next to it stands a white cypress. Do… — Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski Copy Share Image
You’ll join me sooner than you know in a place with . . . no illusions, where the truth is the only… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Many native cultures believe that the heart is the bridge between Father Sky and Mother Earth. For these traditions, the 'four-chambered heart,'… — Angeles Arrien Copy Share Image
You know; when I look at the night sky and I see this enormous splendor of stars and galaxies, I sometimes ask… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
It is a pink and blue feeling, as sharp as clear sky; a slight breeze, and the edges of Lake Nakuru would… — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different… — Marion Zimmer Bradley Copy Share Image
Near the snow, near the sun, in the highest fields, See how these names are fêted in the waving grass And by… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
Each year, thousands of UFOs are sighted and reported, which is an impressive tally of unidentified aerial phenomena. Surveys show that roughly… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
When it comes to bullshit, you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims: religion...… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
There is a trick to flying. The angels told me." He had smiled at my wide-eyed awe. "You need to forget everything… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
It's a hard life, but it's the only life we have. And sometimes-' he pointed to a bright flash of lightening, its… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
I do believe that a poem needs to remind the reader of his or her own humanity, of what they are, of… — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
Teenagers are bored. By everything. Show a teenager an actual volcanic eruption, in progress, featuring giant billowing clouds of smoke, hot rocks… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The sky aft was dark as pitch, but the moon still shone brightly ahead of us and lit up the blackness. Beneath… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
When night falls over Washington, D.C., memorials, public buildings, and broad avenues become ethereal shapes in soft light and shadow. Floodlights, piercing… — Volkmar Wentzel Copy Share Image
O friend, my bosom said, Through thee alone the sky is arched. Through thee the rose is red; All things through thee… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Farewell sweet earth and northern sky, for ever blest, since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sometimes girls write me. One girl in Yugoslavia sent me a whole slew of love letters. I don't know how she got… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
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The Gods on the death of his wife Yang Kai-hui I lost my proud poplar and you your willow As poplar and… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire… — Jean Batten Copy Share Image
This is the most exciting place in the world to live. Oh yeah! There are so many ways to die in New… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It was many years ago that I got out of a crewtruck in the national forest and ran toward a large glowing… — Travis Walton Copy Share Image
I sometimes think we ought to bring a bill before Congress changing our national symbol from the eagle to the buffalo, because… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“And when I fall in love,” I began, "I will build a mountain to touch the sky. Then, my lover and I… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
I don't think there's anything on this planet that more trumpets life than the sunflower. For me that's because of the reason… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am interested in struggle - between our hearts and our head, between principle and desire - and one of those struggles… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I've just been playing the Trout Quintet on the phonograph. Listening to the andantino makes me want to be a trout myself.… — Sophie Scholl Copy Share Image
When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and… — William Jacob Holland Copy Share Image
Reliable people have been seeing the phenomenon known as flying saucers for a thousand years and more. There are good reports as… — Morris K. Jessup Copy Share Image
Up on the roof Tatiana thought about the evening minute, the minute she used to walk out the factory doors, turn her… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
When things fall apart, the children of the land scurry and scatter like birds escaping a burning sky…They will never be the… — NoViolet Bulawayo Copy Share Image
America has always been a land of freedom that teaches you that the sky is the limit that you will succeed or… — Will Cain Copy Share Image
