I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
It is not OK in this culture to talk to friends about causes you believe in, much less to ask them to… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
I grew up in a rural area, I was from kind of a poor family and my parents weren't showbiz people. But… — Henry Thomas Copy Share Image
There is also somehow the idea that this gay thing is all just about indulgence in carnal pleasure. When I was twenty… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
All of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home...and every time I turned around, another person… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
...our eyes locked in one of those looks that sometimes happen between strangers, when both wordlessly agree that reality contains sinkholes whose… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Sometimes, I genuinely enjoy having conversations with journalists; enjoying the few moments of intimacy with a stranger is fascinating to me. But… — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
Prose is not to be read aloud but to oneself alone at night, and it is not quick as poetry but rather… — Henry Green Copy Share Image
For there was a conspiracy of dullness in the world, a universal plan to shut out the resurgences of spirit which might… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
Burning up the phone until there's nothing left to say, so I lay here and just listen to you breathe. Girl you… — Toby Keith Copy Share Image
For me, that's one of the best validations as an artist. To have a stranger come up to you and say that… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut-a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the… — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
With total strangers, it had always been my policy to expect the worst. Usually they-and those that you knew best, for that… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
Truth may be stranger than fiction on a plot and narrative basis, but fiction can investigate tone in a way that things… — Ray McKinnon Copy Share Image
I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Now that I'm 60, every morning I look in the mirror and say, "I don't know who you are, stranger, but I'm… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
