The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
“She was an extravagantly slender girl. Her ribs showed. The conspicuous knobs of her hipbones framed a hollowed abdomen, so flat as… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
When man of slender visits you / Nothing on earth that one can do / In well he’ll hide, or watery hole… — Jack Goldstein Copy Share Image
In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
My chance, when it came, was due, literally, to the fact that I was slender… You cannot make an opera audience believe… — Maria Jeritza Copy Share Image
Ripe vegetables were magic to me. Unharvested, the garden bristled with possibility. I would quicken at the sight of a ripe tomato,… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Remember, you can be exalted without a college degree. You can be exalted without being slender and beautiful. You can be exalted… — M. Russell Ballard Copy Share Image
Annabelle gave him a chiding smile. “If you’re implying that I’m spoiled, I assure you that I am not.” “You should be.”… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Compared with this simple, fibrous life, our civilized history appears the chronicle of debility, of fashion, and the arts of luxury. But… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Better to me the poor mans crust, Better the blessing of the poor, Though I turn me empty from his door; That… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the last house before the… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
For time and eternity there have been fathers like Nathan who simply can see no way to have a daughter but to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Late April and you are three; today We dug your garden in the yard. To curb the damage of your play, Strange… — W. D. Snodgrass Copy Share Image
It's so easy to persecute an older, overweight, unwise, crude, ignorant woman who may very well be a good person at heart… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Orthodoxy, or right opinion, is, at best, a very slender part of religion. Though right tempers cannot subsist without right opinions, yet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have five minutes to call someone, anyone, I don't care who, and order me the finest blend of coffee that rat… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
Esca tossed the slender papyrus roll onto the cot, and set his own hands over Marcus's. "I have not served the Centurion… — Rosemary Sutcliff Copy Share Image
I have great hope of a wicked man, slender hope of a mean one. A wicked man may be converted and become… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I found a strawberry blossom in a rock. The little slender flower had more courage than the green leaves, for they were… — Dorothy Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did notthe value of… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
The third order, called Corinthian, is an imitation of the slenderness of a maiden; for the outlines and limbs of maidens, being… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Slender Youth. A tour companion who may be either a lost prince or a girl/princess in disguise. In the latter case it… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man. — Charles Brockden Brown Copy Share Image
The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses. — William Manchester Copy Share Image
Persons of slender intellectual stamina dread competition, as dwarfs are afraid of being run over in the street. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The slender debt to Nature's quickly paid,Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
“She was average height, more slender than curvy. And he realized with horror that he was attracted to her. A lot.” — Miranda Liasson Copy Share Image
I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar! — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Uptown their sound is like the native. You send her Junction. Function. The boy with pop is slender. — Culture Club Copy Share Image
The cello is like a beautiful woman who has not grown older, but younger with time, more slender, more supple, more graceful. — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
White bee, even when you are gone you buzz in my soul You live again in time, slender and silent. — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
