I stroke her lightly, memorizing her body. I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are… — T. Allen Lawson Copy Share Image
All tragedies deal with fated meetings; how else could there be a play? Fate deals its stroke; sorrow is purged, or turned… — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
Sometimes one sees people butter their slices of bread with long, slow, admiring strokes in the same way in which Tom Sawyer's… — Mary Elizabeth Clark Copy Share Image
The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed...," instead of, "I believe..."), it deforms… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
She writes that one of the moments that she felt most useful was when her mother had a headache, and she would… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The Unconscious Civilisation There is a certain terrifying dignity to the big ideologies. With the stroke of an intellectual argument the planet… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
All great leaders find a sense of balance through their levels of reception. For instance, those who support a leader may soften… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Our intention is not to create cloned human beings, but rather to make lifesaving therapies for a wide range of human disease… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
In terms of the pilot, you have to introduce a lot of characters in a very short period of time, and you… — Jack Davenport Copy Share Image
Everybody has a direct view of the person "behind" the art, so there is going to be a certain amount of awareness… — Jeffrey Lewis Copy Share Image
My mother was a single parent, a speech therapist who worked for a company that kept a substantial percentage of the income… — Mona Simpson Copy Share Image
You get a role like this in a big action movie [like Jack Reacher] and you can go one of two ways:… — Patrick Heusinger Copy Share Image
It is this ideal of progress through cumulative effort rather than through genius—progress by organised effort, progress which does not wait for… — William Wickenden Copy Share Image
We never have a full demonstration, although there is always an underlying reason for the truth, even if it is only perfectly… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart; To make mankind, in… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Since my stroke, I have begun to see so many miracles all around me. I look out of the window in my… — Kirk Douglas Copy Share Image
It was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. How the artist captured the light, the details of my mother's dimples, the… — Ellen Schreiber Copy Share Image
For ever and anon the soul becomes weary of the conventions that are not of it, and with a single stroke shatters… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Instruction for life: Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.… — H. Jackson Brown, Jr Copy Share Image
So, what is a stroke? In about 90 per cent of strokes, it's the result of blood flow to part of the… — Michael Greger Copy Share Image
Mum was in her early 50s when she had four strokes in quick succession that almost took her off. I'd just come… — Mel Giedroyc Copy Share Image
When I was a kid if I was unhappy, I'd stroke my dog. I was into bringing injured birds into the house,… — Steve McFadden Copy Share Image
By approaching my problems with "What might make things a little better?" rather than "What is the solution?" I avoid setting myself… — Hugh Prather Copy Share Image
A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
It will do us little good to wire the world if we short circut our souls. There is no delete button for… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Of course it's also a lot easier to slap a health claim on a box of sugary cereal than on a potato… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Guns aren't just a tool of last resort. They're awesome. That's why people stroke them. And name them, and take pictures with… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Trying to get today's Republicans to accept basic facts is like trying to get your dog to take a pill. You have… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
In a small Swiss city sits an international organization so obscure and secretive…Control of the institution, the Bank for International Settlements, lies… — Keith Bradsher Copy Share Image
For the unified mind in accord with the Way all self-centered striving ceases. Doubts and irresolutions vanish and life in true faith… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose, To th' active Moon a quick… — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind.… — Keith Ablow Copy Share Image
When I was a swimmer and I would lose a heat in something I was doing whether it backstroke or breaststroke, were… — Hilary Swank Copy Share Image
At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which… — Jawaharlal Nehru Copy Share Image
I once made the mistake of writing a story with David Corbett. The man smoked me. He can delineate the character and… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
If you have the feeling of choice, if you feel free, you will be better off. And when I say better off… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
On average, once a month for the last 10 years since her [Harper Lee] stroke, we have sat and talked and told… — Wayne Flynt Copy Share Image
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