Genius is to other gifts what the carbuncle is to the precious stones. It sends forth its own light, whereas other stones… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The gray-green stretch of sandy grass,Indefinitely desolate;A sea of lead, a sky of slate;Already autumn in the air, alas!One stark monotony of… — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
And there is no living creature, though the whims of eons had put its eyes on boggling stalks and clamped it in… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley's ingenious sophistry to prove the… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
The Holy Spirit, in the variety of his gifts, unites us and enables us to contribute to the building up of the… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
He tunneled into stories where weak men changed into strong half-animals or used eye beams or magic hammers to power through steel… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Water and stones. Those are the unpromising ingredients of two very different endeavors... painting, because artists' pigments are made from fluids... mixed… — James Elkins Copy Share Image
Everyone's going to have a racist tweet, a homophobic tweet, a xenophobic tweet, a misogynist tweet. Everyone's going to have a tweet… — Brad Williams Copy Share Image
We have wished, we eco-freaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where… — Stewart Brand Copy Share Image
I have no wit, no words, no tears; My heart within me like a stone Is numb'd too much for hopes or… — Christina Rossetti Copy Share Image
For years I was an undiagnosed anorexic, suffering from a little-known variant of the disease, where, freakishly, the appetite turns in on… — Victoria Wood Copy Share Image
A painting or sculpture not modelled on any real object is every bit as concrete and sensuous as a leaf or a… — Hans Arp Copy Share Image
Lawyers like to leave no stone unturned, provided they can charge by the stone. — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image
To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.] — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The days aren't discarded or collected, they are bees that burned with sweetness or maddened the sting: the struggle continues, the journeys… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I am a free man―and I need my freedom. I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Well, what? Sophie-" "I hit her on the head with a mirror," Sophie said hopelessly. "One of those silver-backed ones, so it… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
[Peter] Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" was my first go-to song in terms of getting into the zone and getting ready and then I… — Bill Walton Copy Share Image
The harmony that holds the stars on their courses and the flesh on our bones resonates through all creation. Every sound contains… — Morgan Llywelyn Copy Share Image
As much as I love Slipknot, I don't want that to carry over into what I do for Stone Sour. I want… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
When stones lying warm in the sun were turned over, they exposed the cold, damp earth underneath; and that was where Masako… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
ISIS says they want to go back and reject modernity? Well, I think we should help them. We ought to bomb them… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
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