The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, andagain,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
My breathing slowed. I shaded her thick chestnut hair resting in a smooth curve against her face, a large bruise blazing across… — Ruta Sepetys Copy Share Image
A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I tell you what I really fear. I fear aeroplanes. When the flight's all right and smooth I'm still thinking, 'what if… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I don't want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow. I hope I end up a blithering idiot cursing… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Beautiful and rich is an old friendship, Grateful to the touch as ancient ivory, Smooth as aged wine, or sheen of tapestry… — Eunice Tietjens Copy Share Image
Days are like years in the love of the young, when no bar, no obstacle, is between their hearts,--when the sun shines,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
We are each given a block of marble when we begin a lifetime, and the tools to shape it into sculpture. We… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To televisionize any serious problem, the program directors face the task of making the message 'go down smooth' until the audience is… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
Because I cannot flatter and look fair, Smile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog, Duck with French nods and apish courtesy,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
Most uses of bioassay involving smooth muscle demand high sensitivity and specificity. — John Vane Copy Share Image
Why is geometry often described as cold and dry? One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud,… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
The traditional family table is round. No corners. No sides. No head. No tail. Everything is smooth. The food is in the… — Deng Ming-Dao Copy Share Image
Morning comes every day; the sunrise does not fail, nor the sunset. Give it time. That is all that may be required.… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Hillary Clinton is the smooth central representation of all that, and 'all that' is more or less what is in power now… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image