I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on… — A. L. Rowse Copy Share Image
“When the tremulous radiance of a summer night fills with twinkling stars and the moon itself is full, I am slowly drawn… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“CHAPTER ONE A Boy at the Window FOR A LONG TIME AFTER THAT SUMMER, the four Penderwick sisters still talked of Arundel.… — Jeanne Birdsall Copy Share Image
One summer day, while I was walking along the country road on the farm where I was born, a section of the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
It was 2002, we all got guitars for Christmas and started playing in my garage that summer, rehearsed there and in a… — Alex Turner Copy Share Image
For city dwellers like me who don't get to vacation in the summer, no filmmaker can so effectively make you feel like… — Jake Paltrow Copy Share Image
A sense of security, of well-being, of summer warmth pervades my memory. That robust reality makes a ghost of the present. The… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Well, what am I supposed to do?" "Well, you can take a nap, read a little of my book, or close your… — Robyn Carr Copy Share Image
When I was secretary of state, I had to be responsible for getting a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia through the… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I'm not a network executive, but it seems to be a time when networks take more of a gamble with higher-concept shows.… — James Wolk Copy Share Image
The phenomena of the year take place every day in a pond on a small scale. Every morning, generally speaking, the shallow… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“She can see the sea peeking between buildings, sparkling, inviting. When summer is on its way, it never ceases to thrill her… — Sara Alexi Copy Share Image
I pray the gods some respite from the weary task of this long year's watch that lying on the Atreidae's roof on… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“So, are you going to the lake today?” Jay asked, finally falling into step beside Violet as their pace slowed. They headed… — Kimberly Derting Copy Share Image
Elmer had a sailboat. Every summer he would take it up to Alaska and come back down, and he kept his boat… — Bear McCreary Copy Share Image
SEASONS PASSED, FALL AND WINTER and spring and summer. Leaves blew in through the open door of Lucius Clarke’s shop, and rain,… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
As I moved deeper into the room, his gaze dropped to my feet, and worked its way back to my face. I… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
God bless America - what other civilization would give Patrick Dempsey another shot to rule as a sex symbol, twenty years after… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
I went to M.I.T. in the summer of 1951 as a 'C.L.E. Moore Instructor.' I had been an instructor at Princeton for… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share Image
Summer 2014: No school. Sleepovers. Tanning. Beaches. Water fights. Tank tops. Flip flops. Lemonade. Summer romances. Sunglasses. Taking Pictures. Late nights. Bikinis.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have the life I have without television. I wouldn't be looking out my apartment window onto the East River; I… — Susan Sullivan Copy Share Image
They held hands and knew that only the coffin would lie in the earth; the bubbly laughter and the press of fingers… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
So the Midwest nourishes us [...] and presents us with the spectacle of a land and a people completed and certain. And… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Sometimes in the heart of the summer, I look at people with their faces shaved and think it'd be nice, but once… — Willie Robertson Copy Share Image
The time leading up to the 1996 Olympics was the most demanding and stressful of my career. The sport I had loved… — Dominique Moceanu Copy Share Image
I tried on the farmer's hat, Didn't fit. . . A little too small - just a bit Too floppy. . .… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
Love is a myth.' 'Love is a myth,' Grandfather Trout said. 'Like summer.' 'What?' 'In winter,'Grandfather Trout said, 'summer is a myth.… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
My dear, In the midst of hate, I found there was, within me, an invincible love. In the midst of tears, I… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I have always loved the many moods of the sky at Rocky Flats. Turquoise and teal in summer, fiery red at sunset,… — Kristen Iversen Copy Share Image
During the summer of 1963 between my junior and senior years, I began a research project on hypothermia in the Department of… — Stanley B. Prusiner Copy Share Image
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Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“I am part of your summers,” Alex says. “I’m part of this world, out here, in the middle of nowhere, with the… — Matthew J. Metzger Copy Share Image
I once went to a fraternity house when I was in high school... you know, you would rent them during the summer… — Spencer Grammer Copy Share Image
Both Mitt and I have summer places up in New Hampshire on Lake Winnipesaukee. And a few summers ago I was taking… — J. W. "Bill" Marriott, Jr Copy Share Image
Since you came back from summer break, our entire relationship is about fooling around. We never talk anymore, and I'm sick of… — Simone Elkeles Copy Share Image
What if the leaves were to fall a-weeping, and say, "It will be so painful for us to be pulled from our… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“Caught in the doldrums of August we may have regretted the departing summer, having sighed over the vanished strawberries and all that… — Denis Mackail Copy Share Image
All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better. At night I hear more distinctly the steady roar of the North… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
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