The moose is singularly grotesque and awkward to look at. Why should it stand so high at the shoulders? Why have so… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I wish you could see the two cats drowsing side by side in a Victorian nursing chair, their paws, their ears, their… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The story [Henny-Penny] has the best opening in all literature-"The sky is falling," cried Henny-Penny, "and a piece of it fell on… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the fore… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My most memorable adventure was investigating the chalk cliffs in Yorkshire. While clambering over kelp-covered boulders half-covered by the sea, I fell… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I went West and took part in the strike of the machinists - the Southern Pacific Railroad, the corporation that swung California… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Paul patted Mrs. O'Leary's snout. The living room shook —BOOM, BOOM, BOOM—which either meant a SWAT team was breaking down the door… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
A salamander can grow a new tail in three weeks. My dad can score new tail in three minutes. — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
Black was bestlooking. ... Ebony was the best wood, the hardest wood; it was black. Virginia ham was the best ham. It… — Ann Petry Copy Share Image
The kitten was six weeks old. It was enchanting, a delicate fairy-tale cat, whose Siamese genes showed in the shape of the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
On the Internet, people on the tails of the bell curve can find one another. — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
So, this is a rabbit, I thought. He sort of looks like Chester, only he's got longer ears and a shorter tail.… — James Howe Copy Share Image
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird. — Martial Copy Share Image
Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig's tail you can never make a good shaft.] — George Herbert Copy Share Image
A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think that the board is a lot more intuitive than people assume. You get on it and all you have to… — Tony Hawk Copy Share Image
In the distance a wolf howls. Let it come, I think. Beast will most likely simply howl back, and the creature will… — R.L. LaFevers Copy Share Image
I had an amazing childhood, lots of love. But my dad worked his tail off, getting up at 4 in the morning… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
On the Net, the bell curve reclaims its tails. The uncommon is as accessible as the common. The very fragmentation of the… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
I'm a bit of a traditionalist; the ballroom is all about tails and I never mess about with that. But for the… — Anton du Beke Copy Share Image
The thing is, we have to let go of all blame, all attacking, all judging, to free our inner selves to attract… — Joe Vitale Copy Share Image
I can be busy for three years and you may not even know what I'm busy doing because you only see me… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image