The dimensions of a work of art are seldom realized by the author until the work is accomplished. It is like a… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
If there would be a recipe for a poem, these would be the ingredients: word sounds, rhythm, description, feeling, memory, rhyme, and… — Karla Kuskin Copy Share Image
You have to take the long view. First, when Moses came down from Mt. Sinai, man has already progressed to the point… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
I studied Latin in high school, and I was reading stuff from Cicero. And that signal took a few thousand years to… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The publisher Jeff Johnson, who has offered not a word of explanation to me, has privately told people that he hated every… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen… — Louis Agassiz Copy Share Image
Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
So we stand there, part of a crowd a thousand people strong, beaming up at the sky with wonder. I knew with… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
SAUCE, n. The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has one thousand vices; a people with… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
And I saw it didn't matter who had loved me or who I loved. I was alone. The black oily asphalt, the… — Dorianne Laux Copy Share Image
The Doxology ... that testimonial to the Platonic Trinity, which divided the Roman Empire into at least eighteen quarreling sects, none of… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
In Zen we classify ten thousand different states of mind, different ways of seeing life. There is something beyond the ten thousand… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The mere power of saving what is already in our hands must be of easy acquisition to every mind; and as the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep… — Tom Jordan Copy Share Image
A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days. — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
You have a wonderful organization. I understand you have ten thousand here. And if you count the ones in the various federal… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
A child can ask a thousand questions that the wisest man cannot answer. — Jacob Abbott Copy Share Image
Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
I was always clear in my mind what I wanted to do. Becoming a footballer is a dream that is unattainable for… — Aymeric Laporte Copy Share Image
A hole had just appeared in the Galaxy. It was exactly a nothingth of a second long, a nothingth of an inch… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
