We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
Unlike their Western counterparts, Africans take elections very seriously - rising up early to queue patiently in line for hours under the… — George Ayittey Copy Share Image
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Why I Wake Early Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who made the morning and spread it over the fields and… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone, The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Great is God our Lord, great is His power and there is no end to His wisdom. Praise Him you heavens, glorify… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“So we must run back and forth between these two suns in our firmament—the presentiment of death and awareness of life—and avoid… — Roberto Mangabeira Unger Copy Share Image
Between the dusk of a summer night And the dawn of a summer day, We caught at a mood as it passed… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
...I will praise the English climate till I die—even if I die of the English climate. There is no weather so good… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
And you won’t leave me?” “No.” Alec said. “No, we won’t ever leave you. You know that.” “Never.” Isabelle took his hand,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Life isn't what you think it is. It's like water, and the young let it trickle away between their fingers without even… — Jean Anouilh Copy Share Image
Also marvelous in a room is the light that comes through the windows of a room and that belongs to the room.… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
Night doesn't fall in Rome; it rises from the city's heart, from the gloomy little alleys and courtyards where the sun never… — Caroline Llewellyn Copy Share Image
“Among the valleys of the distant waves we will eventually meet. […] The orange sun will recognize us. It owes us. It… — Landis Everson Copy Share Image
Inside, my soul became so cold I hated everything. I even despised the sun, for I knew I would never be able… — Dave Pelzer Copy Share Image
Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed,… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
Do you believe that the God of Jesus loves you beyond worthiness and unworthiness, beyond fidelity and infidelity—that he loves you in… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Well in two months, it'd be sunbathing time. That made me smile. I enjoyed lying in the sun in a little bikini,… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
The not-quite-sort-of lie works here too - often an ad will announce that "Congressman Johnson voted for a bill that gave tax… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
The cosmic calendar compresses the local history of the universe into a single year. If the universe began on January 1st it… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
And for an instant he would remember Naples: sitting with Sasha in her tiny room; the jolt of surprise and delight he'd… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
When the soldier returns from the wars, even though he has white hair, he very soon finds a young wife. But a… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest, A motley fool! a miserable world! As I do live by… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I war running back to the house in Mayaguez with a melting ice cone we called a piraqua running sweet and sticky… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To meditate does not mean to fight with a problem. To meditate means to observe. Your smile proves it. It proves that… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
When asked by a grumpily puzzled professor what "rules" he followed, Debussy is said to have retorted, mon plaisir "whatever I please"… — Claude Debussy Copy Share Image
“The old temporality is losing its effectiveness and moving into the background. Many people go on mumbling the old words, but in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on borrowed time. Every… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
It's not about changing--it's about growing, together," he said, like the wise soul that he was. "I wanted to let you know--that… — Ellen Schreiber Copy Share Image
Children, daily practice of yoga or sun salutations (surya-namaskara) is very good for health and for spiritual practice. Lack of proper exercise… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“Grass: I live in a great steel tower that reflects the blazing sun. People catch fire just walking by. The more bodies… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Peeping through my keyhold I see within the range of only about 30 percent of the light that comes from the sun;… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I think that the equator could act as a great equalizer for all life on Earth, celebrated as the great energy belt… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
You know, a landscape painter's day is delightful. You get up early, at three o'clock in the morning, before sunrise; you go… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
Said the Sun to the Moon-'When you are but a lonely white crone, And I, a dead King in my golden armour… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image