More than anything, that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
this is what happens to the plans of humans, it is when they make them in the midst of their pleasures that… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
Often we eat squid fried, so it's fun to grill it for a change. To grill squid, slice the cleaned bodies open… — Tom Douglas Copy Share Image
I realized in all the cases where I was happy with the decision I made, there were two common threads: Surround myself… — Marissa Mayer Copy Share Image
Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
I'd found heaven and grabbed it as tightly as I could, but it was unraveling, an insubstantial thread sliding between my fingers,… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable… — Allan Kaprow Copy Share Image
Truth usually makes no sense. If your desire is for everything to make perfect sense, then you should take refuge in fiction.… — Peter David Copy Share Image
When your body is your instrument, it needs maintenance and it needs to be held in a certain way. That's a universal… — Josh Peck Copy Share Image
“Penelope In the pathway of the sun, In the footsteps of the breeze, Where the world and sky are one, He shall… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
To yearn for a single, and usually simple, explanation of the chaotic materials of the past, to search for a single thread… — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
Ordinary facts are arranged within time, strung along its length as on a thread. There they have their antecedents and their consequences,… — Bruno Schulz Copy Share Image
The strongest continuous thread in America's political tradition is skepticism about government. — George Will Copy Share Image
What saved me then? Nothing but pregnancy. And each time after I had given birth to my work my life hung suspended… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
The pattern's laid out on the bed With dozens of colors of thread But you've got the needle I guess that's the… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Like a blind spinner in the sun,I tread my days:I know that all the threads will runAppointed ways.I know each day will… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail… — Hamlin Garland Copy Share Image
To me music is the sound of nature in process, either the full cacophony, one thread of it, or a deliberate composition.… — Warren Jeffs Copy Share Image
There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them… — Percival Lowell Copy Share Image
Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we… — Chief Seattle Copy Share Image
Since 1970, I've been using text and ephemera as well as photographs in order to tell stories of one kind or another.… — Jim Goldberg Copy Share Image