There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Her fine high forehead sloped gently up to where her hair, bordering it like an armorial shield, burst into lovelocks and waves… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think when tragic things happen it is on surface. It is like the ocean. One the surface a waves and sometimes… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, four-fifths of the earth's surface is covered by seas; that is unquestionably too much; the world's surface, the map of oceans… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
Time is a topological manifold. It is a surface. Events flow across it like water over land and like water flowing over… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy There's vomit on his sweater already: mom's spaghetti He's nervous, but on the… — Eminem Copy Share Image
We're like Magic 8-Balls. After you ask your question and shake the 8-Ball, you read the answer in the little window. If… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
There is no knowing beyond that membrane, the meniscus of death. What can be seen from here is distorted, refracted. All we… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
That result at the French was a big break for me. I had been playing quite well up until that point but… — Jo Durie Copy Share Image
Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is… — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
You are so terribly nimble, so clever. I distrust your cleverness. You make a wonderful pattern, everything is in its place, it… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
As she had been walking from the ward to that room, she had felt such pure hatred that now she had no… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The weird thing was that I went to Trump rallies thinking I was going to run into militant, right wing, racist people… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We were segregated throughout the community, and it was pretty brutal, actually. It didn't appear to be, on the surface.People got along… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
We do a lot of "capital I" important stories, but one I'd highlight is the work we've done on guns, not only… — Clara Jeffery Copy Share Image
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I wish that we lived in a time and a generation where people would stop viewing my honesty as overly emotional. People… — Drake Copy Share Image
It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
There is no violent surface indication of the ecstasy which great thinkers alone enjoy. There is nothing dramatic about it, but there… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
I swam across the rocks and compared myself favorably with the sars. To swim fishlike, horizontally, was the logical method in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cole grasped a handful of vials and syringes with one hand and dumped them on the island in front of me. They… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
A line partakes of the simplicity of a point more than does a surface; and a surface [partakes thereof more] than does… — Nicholas of Cusa Copy Share Image
You know, I've wondered if it's more painful to lose someone you love to death or to lose someone you love because… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
“Wimsey stooped for an empty sardine-tin which lay, horribly battered, at his feet, and slung it idly into the quag. It struck… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
We tend to be so bombarded with information, and we move so quickly, that there's a tendency to treat everything on the… — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
“Architecture’s most kissable aspect is its surface. Space is hard to get a hold on. Structure has historically been inadequately pliant. Geometry—well,… — Sylvia Lavin Copy Share Image
The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy. Take common sense quantum sufficit; add a… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
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Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
If you listen, you can hear it. The city, it sings. If you stand quietly, at the foot of a garden, in… — Jon McGregor Copy Share Image
Impurities are constantly and imperceptibly passing from the body, through the pores, and if the surface of the skin is not kept… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
The produce of the earth - all that is derived from its surface by the united application of labour, machinery, and capital,… — David Ricardo Copy Share Image
It was eerie. I saw myself in that machine. I never thought my work would come to this. Upon seeing a distorted… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
I'm tired of my life, my clothes, the things I say. I'm hacking away at the surface, as at some kind of… — James Salter Copy Share Image
Those people are seen, I assume, by Larry [Kramer] as writing partly about gay issues and problems, whether it's on the surface… — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
The challenge of yoga is to go beyond our limits - within reason. We continually expand the frame of the mind by… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society… — Carl Bernstein Copy Share Image
While things on the surface seem more quiet than at any time since last summer, I do not like the maintenance of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image