A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
They are in a dilemma, they are in trouble now. Hate them and strike them. — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes. — Sally Field Copy Share Image
When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm. — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
What do I think about when I strike out? I think about hitting home runs. — Babe Ruth Copy Share Image
What strikes me about high-school reunions is the realization that these are people one has known one's whole life. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone… — Herb Kohl Copy Share Image
Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does… — Rumi Copy Share Image
I'm not executing my pitches. I'm not commanding my fastball, and I get behind in the count. When I try to throw… — Johan Santana Copy Share Image
To know whom to strike is competence; to know how to strike is skill; to know where and when to strike is… — James Roby Copy Share Image
Banks have never made money in the history of banking, losing the equivalent of all their past profits periodically - while bankers… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Truth is ever incoherent, and when the big hearts strike together, the concussion is a little stunning. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Don't try to strike everybody out ... stay back and just focus on the catcher's mitt, just throw the ball low in… — Ubaldo Jimenez Copy Share Image
A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate to meet and work with a lot of really smart people. The thing that strikes me most about them… — Bill Russell Copy Share Image
I go to see plays all the time, and whenever I see Chekhov, I'm amazed at how this Russian play strikes home… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
It seems obvious that colors vary according to lights, because when any color is placed in the shade, it appears to be… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
There are black men who are madly in love with white women. God bless them, if that's what works for them. I… — Nia Long Copy Share Image
Those in blue suits who use thinly veiled race symbols -- when they say welfare and crime and three strikes and anti-… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
When workers fall back on violence, they are lost. Oh, they might win some of their demands and might end a strike… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
In prayer, something like an echo takes place. When you strike a note on the piano, corresponding strings in all the other… — Richard Wurmbrand Copy Share Image
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
There's a lot of levels of metanarrative that I like to play with. That's why I like the Ghostfacers, because we actually… — Ben Edlund Copy Share Image
In what do the activities of the Communist Parties consist? In what ways can they manifest themselves? These activities usually consist in… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
Hope has returned to the hearts of scores of millions of men and women, and with that hope there burns the flame… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The question's whether or not there's an American interest in the Civil War [in Syria]. The question is whether or not a… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
As a child, he had hardened his heart and learned to take their punches. He had learned to spit back and take… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
The first thing that strikes you about Timothy Murphys verse is the palpable texture of his line - that sound of sense… — Michael Donaghy Copy Share Image
Why must we love where the lightning strikes, and not where we choose? — Theodore Sturgeon Copy Share Image
Prayer strikes the winning blow; service is simply picking up the pieces. — S. D Gordon Copy Share Image
Virtue pardons the wicked, as the sandal-tree perfumes the axe which strikes it. — Saadi Copy Share Image