We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Burn shavings and splinters of pitch pine, and when they turn to charcoal, put them out, and pound them into mortar with… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a lonely… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Evolution has encountered no intellectual trouble; no new arguments have been offered. Creationism is a home-grown phenomenon of American sociocultural history-a splinter… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
You have trust in what you think. If you splinter yourself and try to please everyone, you can’t. It’s important to stay… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
There was once a bundle of matches, and they were frightfully proud because of their high origin. Their family tree, that is… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
“scattered cracking sounds bristling gaps in the wood every now and then the red mark of a gunshot splinters of a language… — Lorand Gaspar Copy Share Image
It has the property of detonating very violently in certain circumstances. On one occasion a small amount of ether solution of pyroglycerin… — Ascanio Sobrero Copy Share Image
My body becomes a raft and there's this part of me that wants just literally to go with the flow. To close… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about.… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on. — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Oh, his words! Sometimes they’re like tiny splinters, catching at the fabric of my focus.” — Ayisha Malik Copy Share Image
Satire recoils whenever charged too high; round your own fame the fatal splinters fly. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Even if one glimpses God, there are cuts and splinters and burns along the way. — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel. — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
“Players are asked to collect Bomb and Shrapnel splinters to save these causing damage to the Mowing Machines.” — Shaun Usher Copy Share Image
I feel there's a funny little hole in me that wasn't there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is… — Louise Fitzhugh Copy Share Image
I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
By the time I finish with the two of you, you will be begging me to let you die. (Desiderius) Desi dearest,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
A boy got a splinter in his eye, and his heart turned cold. Only two people noticed. One was a witch, and… — Anne Ursu Copy Share Image
I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Our enemies believed America was weak and materialistic, that we would splinter in fear and selfishness. They were as wrong as they… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
If Donald Trump is our nominee, it could be the end of the Republican Party. It will split us and splinter us… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
“Peri loved her father's tales. She had grown up with them. Yet the melancholy with which they were infused pierced her soul,… — Elif Shafak Copy Share Image
I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does her scent… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
My father, who was a cabinetmaker, told me, 'Wood has a grain and if you go into the grain, you have beauty.… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
Tess, Tess, Tessa. Was there ever a more beautiful sound than your name? To speak it aloud makes my heart ring like… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
You wish, or rather, have decided, to remove a splinter from someone? Very well, but do not go after it with a… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
We are served by organic ghosts, he thought, who, speaking and writing, pass through this our new environment. Watching, wise, physical ghosts… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
