Drummer, beat, and piper, blowHarper, strike, and soldier, goFree the flame and sear the grassesTil the dawning Red Star passes — Anne McCaffrey Copy Share Image
Maybe it's due to my west coast liberal upbringing, but, the idea of parallel universes doesn't strike me as being too far… — Joshua Jackson Copy Share Image
A bird can fly as high as it wants but it eventually has to come down to earth and get some water...… — Kimbo Slice Copy Share Image
Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
What strikes me is that theres a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference. — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
“They were brutes, no doubt, but brutes who could not read, and who were dying of hunger.” — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands, so an… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, but strike it till it is made hot. — Richard Sharp Copy Share Image
We've gotten a long way on missile defense. We know how to do it. We know how to take down incoming warheads,… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The reality is that a consumer culture which chucks out its iPhones for a new version every nine months is completely unsustainable,… — Justin Sane Copy Share Image
It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that, whenever we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation—of loneliness, poverty,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Death is a sniper. It strikes people you love, people you like, people you know - it's everywhere. You could be next.… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
I do what I've trained my whole life to do. I watch the ball. I keep my eye on the ball. I… — Barry Lyga Copy Share Image
The aged oak upon the steep stands more firm and secure if assailed by angry winds; for if the winter bares its… — Pietro Metastasio Copy Share Image
But if anyone were to conduct his life by reason He would find great riches in living a peaceful life And being… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
A newborn child has to cry, for only in this way will his lungs expand. A doctor once told me of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is thus that the generality of mankind, whose lot is ignorance, attributes to the Divinity, not only the unusual effects which… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Out of the silver heat mirage he ran. The sky burned, and under him the paving was a black mirror reflecting sun-fire.… — James Tabor Copy Share Image
I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I tend to work most often from the method of ignoring any ritualistic writing for long periods of time, and then I'll… — Kevin Keck Copy Share Image
My mom had always wanted me to better myself. I wanted to better myself because of her. Now when the strikes started,… — Roberto Acuna Copy Share Image
The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
I sometimes compare my brainstorming on paper to the drilling of oil wells. The only way to strike oil is to drill… — Tom Monaghan Copy Share Image
A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
As in the piling up of hypothetical alternatives, creative accidents follow the law of probabilities the more we fish, the more likely… — Alex Faickney Osborn Copy Share Image
Handel understands effect better than any of us -- when he chooses, he strikes like a thunderbolt. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Sometimes the hitter get a hit, sometimes I strike them out, but in niether case does anyone die. — Orlando Hernandez Copy Share Image
He raised his hands, not to strike, but in benediction. Lincoln was the grandest figure of the fiercest civil war. He is… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Someone once asked me, 'How does Jimmy Page strike you?' I replied, 'With both hands, of course...' — David Coverdale Copy Share Image
There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We often learn more of God under the rod that strikes us than under the staff that comforts us. — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty. — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
Film is a medium of clear lines and broad strikes - which can be fantastic - but compared to the subtleties and… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
When torrential water tosses boulders, it is because of its momentum. When the strike of a hawk breaks the body of its… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Youth is fleeting and life is short, you might as well strike hard. Anything else is just average. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
To achieve originality we need to abandon the comforts of habit, reason, and the approval of our peers, and strike out in… — Marty Neumeier Copy Share Image
Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
