“A well-spun tale can transport listeners away from their humdrum lives and return them with an enlarged sense of the world.” — Jonathan Auxier Copy Share Image
Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
You can be a great DJ and still be not very good at DJ Hero. And vice-versa: You can have never spun… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
How the fuck I feel? Kinda like 100 mills. Spun the wheel, bought a vowel, I don't owe you nothin' still. — Mac Miller Copy Share Image
According to science, the universe began as a swirl of gas that, as it cooled, spun off the Ten Commandments. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The cold stars spun to the ancient rhythm, the august march of an everlasting symphony. They are old, the stars, and their… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
(Those women whom the distaff no longer claims nor spun cloth) driven made, mad, mad by Bacchus. — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
I've got a variety of different sources of news that I follow and every day there's going to be different headlines, different… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
So coming back from a journey, or after an illness, before habits had spun themselves across the surface, one felt that same… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My mind spun for a second before it drifted, and in that second I knew that of all pleasures a drink of… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
A lot of kind of like the way that Andy [Bernard] talks, you know, the writers pick up on those things -… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
When was the last time someone read aloud to you? Probably when you were a child, and if you think back, you'll… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Contemporary feminism cut itself off from history and bankrupted itself when it spun its puerile, paranoid fantasy of male oppressors and female… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Newt spun, making her robe unfurl. “He’s my familiar, bought and paid for. I can claim anything of his. Even his life.”… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
I want to write about people I love, and put them into a fictional world spun out of my own mind, not… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
Count up the almonds, Count what was bitter and kept you waking, Count me in too: I sought your eye when you… — Paul Celan Copy Share Image
Perhaps the author cited is one of those, who, shunning the practice of the world, have taught the world to shun return!… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
Alas! What boots it with uncessant care To tend the homely slighted Shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless muse; Were it… — John Milton Copy Share Image
We had our own civilization in Africa before we were captured and carried off to this land. We smelted iron, danced, made… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw… — Steve Rasnic Tem Copy Share Image
“Another page turns on the calendar, April now, not March. …. I am spinning the silk threads of my story, weaving the… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Now the Fates are here on the beach, three shadows blacker than black, walking through the dunes and looking for their own.… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
He told me once to be brave, and though I have stood still while knives spun toward my face and jumped off… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Man cannot call the brimming instant back; Time's an affair of instants spun to days; If man must make an instant gold,… — John Masefield Copy Share Image
The thing he wished for most was a thing he had never wished for at all, not until he had discovered her.… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for… — Homer Copy Share Image
I think the greatest gift we can give our children is the experience of deep quiet. If we don’t help our children… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
For this our task hath Fate spun without fail to last for ever sure, that we on man weighed down with deeds… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
You can't just come out and do the same moves that you always do because someone just basically came into the center… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
(That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I love poetry. It's at the heart of everything I do. Poetry transforms what we call language, and uses language as the… — Ashley Bryan Copy Share Image
The two-piece ball I switched to spun too much. One shot would go the distance I thought it should, then the next… — Payne Stewart Copy Share Image
Peering down into the water where the morning sun fashioned wheels of light, coronets fanwise in which lay trapped each twig, each… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Growing up north of San Francisco, I immersed myself in the local landscape and in books about Native Americans, cowboys, and pioneers… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
There are clearly times when quieting down and bringing our energy back into ourselves is a step toward inner peace. Yet the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Since learning the truth, his inner compass had spun off course, swinging wildly, like a needle around a magnet or one of… — Eli Easton Copy Share Image
He leaped to his feet, grabbed her, and spun her to face him. "No more bullshit, Sin. Feel what you've done." He… — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image