Joe Lieberman may be Moses on the stump, but when it comes to policies and votes, he boogies with the Golden Calf. — Don Feder Copy Share Image
The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures… — Thomas Eakins Copy Share Image
Every science is a mutilated octopus. If its tentacles were not clipped to stumps, it would feel its way into disturbing contacts. — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Alexander smoked and watched her from his tree stump bench. What are you doing? she would ask him. Nothing, he would reply.… — Paullina Simons Copy Share Image
The sheep-like tendency of human society soon makes inroads on a child's unsophistications, and then popular education completes the dastardly work with… — N. C. Wyeth Copy Share Image
For the author there is nothing but his pen, till that and life are worn to the stump: and then, with good… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
He [Patrick Stump] is been a friend of ours for a long time, and when we were talking about working with different… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
But this tree in the yard-this tree that men chopped down...this tree that they built a bonfire around, trying to burn up… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
But a lot of things probably will never change - like our friendships and our working relationships. As far as me and… — Pete Wentz Copy Share Image
Allow your attention to gently alight on your belly, as if you were coming upon a shy animal sunning itself on a… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Criticism is an alluring substitute for creation, because tearing things down, unlike building them up, really is as easy as falling off… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I was pretty realistic to people about what we could get done, and the situation we were in, and trying to tamp… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
The life of a good man will hardly improve us more than the life of a freebooter, for the inevitable laws appear… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You still think I've gone cracked in the head," Ben said, amused. "Listen, if tomorrow we pulled into Biren and someone told… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Some Democrats and their advocates in the press believe Obamacare, a year into implementation, is no longer much of a factor in… — Byron York Copy Share Image
I just hope, in all honesty, that Steve will walk if he hits it, you know what I mean? I would hate… — Billy Bowden Copy Share Image
Sometimes I would come back from a run, and my artificial leg would have a puddle of blood from my stump. I… — Carl Brashear Copy Share Image
I'm interested in - in that his power, if that is the word, is such that he has actually been able to… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Biggest dream?” I was proud of this one because I knew it would stump him. It required forethought. “Kiss you.” “That’s not… — Becca Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Known colloquially as 'winter,' 'golden needle,' and 'velvet foot' mushrooms, enoki mushrooms grow across much of the world, inhabiting dead conifer trees… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
In front of the coffee tablethere is a neon-pink stump stool, which I bought because my friend Amanda Brooks told me that… — Lauren Santo Domingo Copy Share Image
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued reams of playground regulations and actually gone so far as to recommend against "tripping hazards,… — Lenore Skenazy Copy Share Image
I know what every colored woman in this country is doing... Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Even if you don't mind Romneycare, or the abortion flip-flop, or any of the rest, there's a more basic problem: He's not… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Carli Fiorina is really annoying. Hell, they're all annoying. But Fiorina doesn't even pretend to offer up policy answers. She just gives… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them… — Harold Larwood Copy Share Image
A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience,… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Don't you worry about that, Mr. Adamsson. Why don't you head back to Reykjavik and spend some of that extortionate fee you… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
'I don't need very much now,' said the boy, 'just a quiet place to sit and rest. I am very tired.' 'Well,'… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Geek cred points for trying to stump me, but sorry, you'll have to do better than that. Would you like to try… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
It was a morning in early summer. A silver haze shimmered and trembled over the lime trees. The air was laden with… — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
The redwood is one of the few conifers that sprout from the stump and roots, and it declares itself willing to begin… — John Muir Copy Share Image
This junkyard is an environmental nightmare, strewn with tree stumps, old tires, derelict vehicles, scrap metal and other waste. This owner may… — Richard Blumenthal Copy Share Image
When the chopper would praise a pine, he will commonly tell you that the one he cut was so big that a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image