A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
The smell of death was thick in the city of Vara?asi. And in Tokyo as well. And yet the birds blissfully sang… — Shusaku Endo Copy Share Image
That's good advice for any young person to remember who aspires to leadership in corporate or public life. Develop a thick skin… — William Schreyer Copy Share Image
God is wild; I am tame....Night falls and an age ends....We call and are answered through the thick foliage, by voices too… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
Well, in Washington, this is a very hard time for Eleanor and Franklin. This is when Lucy Mercer first appears. And Lucy… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
Let the thick curtain fall;I better know than allHow little I have gained,How vast the unattained. — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Heavens! what thick darkness pervades the minds of men. [Lat., Pro superi! quantum mortalia pectora caecae, Noctis habent.] — Ovid Copy Share Image
Peasants are a rude lot, and hard: life has hardened their hearts, but they are thick and awkward only in appearance; you… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Even the cleanest air, at the centre of the South Pacific or somewhere over Antarctica, has two hundred thousand assorted bits and… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
Men ruled the roost and women played a subservient role [in the 1960s]. Working wives were a rarity, because their place was… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
The overwhelming bulk of the cosmos is deathly quiet. But here and there - on worlds where matter is thick and conditions… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
High horns, low horns, silence, and finally a pandemonium of trumpets, rattles, croaks, and cries that almost shakes the bog with its… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
We have all seen these circus elephants complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins, who move around the circus… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood dragging through… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The main thing I look at is: Is it from the heart? If I know that you down with me, then we… — Raekwon Copy Share Image
Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Where'er the oak's thick branches stretch A broader browner shade; Where'er the rude and moss-grown beech O'er-canopies the glade, Beside some water's… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Racing shirts should be sold on big, thick rolls like paper towels. — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
Return to a simpler life, and you will see that behind the expensive cars, the fashionable clothes, the empty celebrities, the fancy… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
But I always curl my lashes, even if I don't put on mascara. I'll also put on a lip gloss or lip… — Denise Richards Copy Share Image