No one is born just once. If you're lucky, you'll emerge again in someone's arms; or unlucky, wake when the long tail… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
The tail of the comet slashed the dawn and in the red light of the rising sun, for a brief instant, it… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
Cut off my head, and singular I am, Cut off my tail, and plural I appear; Although my middle's left, there's nothing… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Foaly twitched his tail contentedly. Genius. No point in being humble about it. — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
The small gargoyle had gone entirely white to match the ceiling, and only the rims of his ears, his long clawlike nails,… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
Down the road someone is practicing scales, The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails — Louis MacNeice Copy Share Image
All great fighting is the same, Eragon, even as all great warriors are the same. Past a certain point, it does not… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough,… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I have often had apparitions of hosts of serpents with heads at their tails, but not one was able to bite me;… — Jan Hus Copy Share Image
And indeed it was, the arrow still protruding from its wet, grayish skin, humping its body along with incredible speed. A flick… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Our moral reasoning is plagued by two illusions. The first illusion can be called the wag-the-dog illusion: We believe that our own… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Ares always reemerges from the chaos. It will never go away. Athenian civilization defends itself from the forces of Ares with metis,… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Suicide is like the ejector button in the cockpit of an F-15. If life goes into a permanent tail spin, it's nice… — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
She [Alice] went on "And how do you know that you're mad?" "To begin with," said the Cat, "a dog's not mad.… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and it's all good stuff. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I work with musicians whose opinions I respect and if they don't like something they don't hold back. They'll say, 'That really… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of… — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image