The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies. The law of contrasts is… — Sophie Swetchine Copy Share Image
As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
Roald Dahl pioneered a new kind of literature for youngsters, one that dispensed with cant and solemnity, favoring anarchy and joy over… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
When she had gone upstairs, he walked to a window and stood looking up at the sky. His head thrown back, he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We must bear in recollection that the sentiment of the picture is that of solemnity, not gaiety & nothing garish, but the… — John Constable Copy Share Image
From what cause the rite of baptism first proceeded is not expressed formally in the scripture, but it may be probably thought… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
“Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. (1 Peter 5:8)” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I suddenly recall the arpeggios of laughter lilting across the tender, springtime grass-gay-welling, far-floating, fluent, spontaneous, a bell-like feminine fluting, then suppressed;… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
