Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Being in South Africa, that messed up my body a little bit. I broke out in spots, and I got really dehydrated,… — Maisie Williams Copy Share Image
Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams. — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Japan is a wonderful country, a strange mixture of ancient mystique and cyberpunk saturation. It's a monolith of society's achievements, yet maintains… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
There's a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milkshake, and you can go off into… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I think that most actors, and they're a very strange lot actors, very strange people, but I think that they attempt to… — Ben Kingsley Copy Share Image
In the larger scheme of things, God has commonly effected this purifying by revival or judgement. Strange though it may seem, there… — Arthur Wallis Copy Share Image
What I'm really involved in when I'm writing is something that no one ever mentions when they see any play. Writing is… — Wallace Shawn Copy Share Image
That really sums up the strange bluntness that a really prime German interview can have. They're really interested in your cultural velocity… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
I had a very short time on that film [The Possibilities Are Endless] and it was quite strange because the process was… — Yasmin Paige Copy Share Image
The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but… — Lori Lansens Copy Share Image
There is a secret, I think. When you are front of a camera there is something that happens. Some relationship, some movement,… — Juliette Binoche Copy Share Image
And yet one arrives somehow, finds himself loosening the hooks of her dress in a strange bedroom-- feels the autumn dropping its… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
I guess again I find myself playing the somewhat grumpy scientist. Strange how that happens. — David Hewlett Copy Share Image
Such nonsense!" declared Dr Greysteel. "Whoever heard of cats doing anything useful!" "Except for staring at one in a supercilious manner," said… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
While I did a lot of research, I ended up feeling that the best way to write about grief was to describe… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“The house seemed so different at night. Everything was in its correct place, of course, but somehow the furniture seemed more angular… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
There's always some reason not to be writing and I regret the times I give in to that, because then writing feels… — Joan Larkin Copy Share Image
I do not remember very many things from the inside out. I do not remember what it felt like to touch things,… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country's poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again,… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Strange how complicated we can make things just to avoid showing what we feel! — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Hey,” the cabbie yelled. “How’s about a tip?” “You bet-ski,” Evie said, heading toward the old Victorian mansion, her long silk scarf… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
A lot of times, in a store, clothes appear strange to me, their cuts or flourishes arbitrary. Why is this look stylish… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the… — William Osler Copy Share Image
People tend to favor the underdog, like in the movies we favor the underdog, but when it comes to voting, we vote… — Jon Gnarr Copy Share Image
Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
One of the many quotes on love..."Love can come only with time and sentience. We learn it as we learn language--and some… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I felt strange in my own family, because I had a very liberal mind, and I would ask myself, "Why is there… — Malina Suliman Copy Share Image
The English, of all ranks and classes, are at bottom, in all their feelings, aristocrats. They have some concept of liberty, and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
How strange to have the power to literally transform yourself into other people, and yet be so unable to put yourself in… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
The room was very quiet. I walked over to the TV set and turned it on to a dead channel-white noise at… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
She thought how strange it would be if she ever said 'Hello' to him. One did not greet oneself each morning. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Music is a strange thing. I would almost say it is a miracle. For it stands halfway between thought and phenomenon, between… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I didn't know how to socialise with other people. I went to Harefield and it was strange at first but then I… — Jadon Sancho Copy Share Image
There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world… — Jacquelyn Mitchard Copy Share Image
One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye… — Fritz Kreisler Copy Share Image