My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time,… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
He that buys land buys many stones, He that buys flesh buys many bones, He that buys eggs buys many shells, But… — John Ray Copy Share Image
There is no "End" to be written, neither can you, like an architect, engrave in stone the day the garden was finished.… — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. Everything is… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who… — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
She was not filled up with the sight of him, the way she had seen her sisters fill up, like silk balloons,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
USA is suffering between imperialists and anti-imperialists. That is the situation. The most powerful country in the world is on its way… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I fell into hip-hop right from the beginning. I was a teenager in the '60s, so I was putting all my pocket… — Simon de Pury Copy Share Image
A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I stood looking down through the beech trees. When I threw a stone I could count to five before the splash. Then… — Alice Oswald Copy Share Image
The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Didn't love, like a plant from India, require a prepared soil, a particular temperature? Sighs in the moonlight, long embraces, tears flowing… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The slave will be free. Democracy in America will yet be a glorious reality; and when the top-stone of that temple of… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
We've had a wonderful, wonderful life together. We've been in many places, we've had the experiences, and now we have the memories.… — David B. Haight Copy Share Image
Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet; Should the big last extend the… — John Gay Copy Share Image
Cold as winter, strong as stone; She faced the darkness all alone. A silver goddess; a reflection. A mirage; a recollection. No… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes Copy Share Image
Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls. The least admixture of a lie-for example, the taint… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The joke's on them. One little hypodermic wont' be enough. Split a piece of wood, and they'll find me. Lift up a… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Time was rushing around me like water around a big wet rock. The only difference is, I was not so durable as… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
It posed the question posed by all such stone piles.: how had puny men moved stones so big? And, like all such… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Summer weather, like being in love,is a philosopher's stone which turns our ordinary days to gold. But not the whole day ...… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen… — John Owen Copy Share Image
What television has done is it's given me a stepping stone to get to some other countries and really wild destinations throughout… — Steve Irwin Copy Share Image
It is an old custom of these people to pick up a stone and toss it on the pile. Perhaps it is… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own… — Pericles Copy Share Image
I was in several bands before I joined Judas Priest. Being in those early unknown bands were the stepping stones, really, so… — Rob Halford Copy Share Image
“For it looked as if the walls were simply dissolving in the rain; those stones still standing, pale and insubstantial as rice… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
'Big Brother,' I can't believe people watch. It's just people whispering to each other for hours and then some silly challenge like,… — Joel McHale Copy Share Image
I was really not familiar at all with Edward Snowden. I like to get that right out of the way and really… — Melissa Leo Copy Share Image
You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze,… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Our habitual experience is a complex of failure and success in the enterprise of interpretation. If we desire a record of uninterpreted… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Life is like fording a river, stepping from one slippery stone to another, and you must rejoice every time you don't lose… — Merle Shain Copy Share Image
Have I ever written anything that has really changed something? What I believe is that you can't change anything without using art.… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
The sticks break, the stones crumble, The eternal altars tilt and tumble, Sanctions and tales dislimn like mist About the amazed evangelist.… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Then the Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone from it, and left… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
I am reading The Lord of the Rings. I suddenly wanted to. I almost know it by heart, but I can still… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
In terms of style I typically veer toward a certain masculinity. My style inspirations range from images of my father in his… — Rachael Taylor Copy Share Image
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