I also think he is given to disguises...Sometimes he wears spectacles and sometimes he does not. And twice he has worn an… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
We have rejected such spectacles as the Coliseum. How then, when we do not even look on killing lest we should contract… — Athenagoras of Athens Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, we live at a moment in which ignorance appears to be one of the defining features of American political and cultural… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our own judgment… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
When money and hype recede from the art world, one thing I won't miss will be what curator Francesco Bonami calls the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
I do fear that global capitalism is making us more like each other in regrettable ways, e.g., more people are increasingly captivated… — David Wong Copy Share Image
It is one of the saddest spectacles of our time to see a great democratic movement support a policy which must lead… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time. — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
But do you really mean, Sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds-all over the place, just round the corner-like that?"… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
A good reader is nearly as rare as a good writer. People bring their prejudices, whether friendly or adverse. They are lamp… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
How do you invent a religion?” Evie asked. Will looked over the top of his spectacles. “You say, ‘God told me the… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
A woman's hair net tangled in a man's spectacles on top of the bedroom dresser. — Don Herold Copy Share Image
Ishabal: "If you may correct your vision as you like, why do you wear spectacles?" Tris: "Because I like them. Because I… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles. — Alice Hegan Rice Copy Share Image
There is a great need today for all mankind to heed the plea to cease to find fault one with another. Some… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in… — Charles Anthon Copy Share Image
Kirpal's left hand swoops down and catches the dropped fork an inch from the floor and gently passes it into the fingers… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values. — David Myers Copy Share Image
When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
The auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing she had frequently done… — Charles Stuart Calverley Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, of course, makes us ever aware of transience, not only in the sonnets, but also powerfully in his plays - spectacles… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
