My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd. "This Land of Saints," and then as the applause died out,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
We meet. We always meet, somehow we're always thrown together, no matter where I go, no matter how I try to distance… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
The people that are the invisible ones, the marginalized, the quote-unquote weirdos, the people that get things thrown at them, the people… — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A wasteland is a confrontation to a man of stature: an empty place, a gauntlet thrown down in challenge and defiance. A… — John C. Wright Copy Share Image
That's the trouble with having the whole world love you. One day, you wake up and it's flirting with your best friend… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
I think modelling was like the university of life, really. You get to travel but you get thrown into this adult world,… — Agyness Deyn Copy Share Image
...as if someone had thrown a hand grenade into the middle of a teddy bear orgy and the only survivors had had… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
The words, gestures, and threats of our officers were thrown away upon men who had lost all presence of mind and only… — Andrew Potter Copy Share Image
All knowledge is partial, infinitesimally partial. Reason is a net thrown out into an ocean. What truth it brings in is a… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I think the important thing now, getting closer to the pitch counts, it feels like I got something left. I felt I… — Roy Halladay Copy Share Image
Indeed, children thrown together in a community that doesn't have a language of its own will invent one in order to communicate… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If you believe, then you hang on. If you believe, it means you've got imagination, you don't need stuff thrown out on… — Ruth Gordon Copy Share Image
The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
One of my timesaving habits is to save all of my magazines and junk mail for airplane trips. I walk on the… — Renee Fleming Copy Share Image
My 20s was a sea of worry. I worried about benefit forms, about being thrown out of my flat. I never went… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
If Macintosh hadn't been successful, then I should have just thrown in the towel, because my vision of the whole industry would… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I have thrown chairs, but only during football matches. Generally, I am well-behaved. I do not like to make people angry. — Jose Carreras Copy Share Image
How long were the stretches of toilsome tacking back and forth, of being blocked, of being thrown back again and again. But… — Kathe Kollwitz Copy Share Image
No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Sometimes, as is the case of peach and plum trees, which are often dwarfed, the plants are thrown into a flowering states,… — Robert Fortune Copy Share Image
I was swimming in art day and night. There were always parties being thrown, with artists from every medium (my extended aunts… — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
This is what I think. You can’t have everything at once. Like the pockets in your clothes, there’s a limit to how… — Gackt Copy Share Image
I feel like I owe him something, and I hate owing people. Maybe if I had thanked him at some point, I'd… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
He had as much fun in the water as any person I have known. You didn't have to throw a stick in… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
Avoid stock expressions (like the plague, as William Safire used to say) and repetitions. Don't say that as a boy your grandmother… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
No one intuitively understands quantum mechanics because all of our experience involves a world of classical phenomena where, for example, a baseball… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
When you start talking about the known knowns and the unknown unknowns, you're thrown into a crazy meta-level discussion. Do I know… — Errol Morris Copy Share Image
What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I dare say you marvel sometimes at my independent way of walking through the world just as if nature had made me… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
The bottom half of humanity is living in severe poverty; not all of them are malnourished or severely deprived now, but they… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
I have a son who's been raised Jewish because his mom is Jewish. I have a whole different set of holidays to… — Paul Giamatti Copy Share Image
Yes, it is worse than thrown away, because every fair minded man must admit that the expenditure of this sum of money… — Thomas Jordan Jarvis Copy Share Image
I've always thrown myself into different kinds of experiences, sometimes into really bad things. But, you grow up. You become more of… — Lisa Edelstein Copy Share Image
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
