[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
By Heaven! it is a splendid sight to see For one who hath no friend, no brother there. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Yes, magnifliant. Magnificent, brilliant, splendid, superb. I could go on.” — Ally Broadfield Copy Share Image
Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen. — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
That's one splendid thing about such affairs — it's so lovely to look back to them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Try to spend a few moments each day holding a picture of your body and your mind in a state of splendid… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
I rejoice when I hear of young men of virtue and talents, worthy to receive and likely to preserve the splendid inheritance… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Now that you are dead, you are splendid. Photographs of people who have just died are worth twenty percent more, and for… — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he… — Patrick Süskind Copy Share Image
I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Let us remember that animals are not mere resources for human consumption. They are splendid beings in their own right, who have… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
The retinue of a grandee in China or Indostan accordingly is, by all accounts, much more numerous and splendid than that of… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Now at last I have come to see what life is, Nothing is ever ended, everything only begun, And the brave victories… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I could not but smile to think in what out-of-the-way corners genius produces her bantlings! And the Muses, those capricious dames, who,… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Imagination is a valuable asset in business and she has a sister, Understanding, who also serves. Together they make a splendid team… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
The triumph of the industrial arts will advance the cause of civilization more rapidly than its warmest advocates could have hoped, and… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
To live On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces, Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all Not yours. Given, uninherited,… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Magnificence is likewise a source of the sublime. A great profusion of things which are splendid or valuable in themselves is magnificent.… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Beauty is Nature in perfection; circularity is its chief attribute. Behold the full moon, the enchanting golf ball, the domes of splendid… — O. Henry Copy Share Image
Those who understood, in fact, say: 'I mustn't do this, I mustn't do that,' so as not to commit some stupidity or… — Luigi Pirandello Copy Share Image
“But--no--splendid is not the right word. they are splendid, but they are--they are so friendly. Oh dear!' she said, and looked up… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
Chess is one thing, but if we get to the point computers can best humans in the arts-those splendid, millennia-old expressions of… — Jonny Lee Miller Copy Share Image
This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will… — Leslie Charteris Copy Share Image
What shall I say of the gallantry with which these Marines have fought! Of the slopes of Hill 142; of the Mares… — James Harbord Copy Share Image
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The Country Doctor Revisited is a fine achievement. Purporting to be an overview of the practice of medicine in rural areas, it… — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
"The Universe repeats itself, with the possible exception of history." Of all earthly studies history is the only one that does not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Years ago, I thought up the name Queen. It's just a name. But it's regal, obviously, and -sounds splendid. — Freddie Mercury Copy Share Image
The Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings. — Doug Larson Copy Share Image
There is a wild, splendid, intoxicating joy that follows work well done. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
A child is a discoverer. He is an amorphous, splendid being in search of his own proper form. — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image