There is cruelty in divorce. There is cruelty in forced or unfortunate marriage. We will continue to cry at weddings because we… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
And one fine day the goddess of the wind kisses the foot of man, that mistreated, scorned foot, and from that kiss… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
But it is my total conviction that all the trappings of good leadership are generic and widely applicable whether you are standing… — Peter Cosgrove Copy Share Image
I hate the opera. I think I must have a tin ear. No matter how hard I concentrate it still sounds like… — Aristotle Onassis Copy Share Image
It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Standing in the corridor was a large plastic bin on wheels. He looked inside. Empty tins of dog food. That explained the… — Charlie Higson Copy Share Image
I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album... Coe recreates the period with such… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
I drove to Oxford with my van full of petrol and tin cans, as I didn't know there were service stations on… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Each soldier was the living image of the others, but there was one who was a bit different. He had only one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I made a tin man costume with tin foil and furnace parts because I thought it would help me be more heartless. — Marcel Dzama Copy Share Image
Be an example to your men, in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that… — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
[In the Field Museum of Natural History] we could see very simple, primitive, hand-built pottery from Babylonia and ancient Egypt and so… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
She'd crack A joke sharp as a tin lid Hot from the teeth of the can-opener, And cackle her crack-corn laugh. — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
Back then, the business depended on bohemians. ... They needed Kristofferson and Roger Miller ..It was the tail end of something...the last… — Steve Earle Copy Share Image
When human men hold an object that makes a powerful noise, or has moving parts, or spins around fast, or has a… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
Love is the hardest thing in the world to write about. So simple. You've got to catch it through details, like the… — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
Leaves like rusty tin for the desolate mind that has seen the end- the barest glimmerings. Leaves aswirl with gulls made wild… — Giorgos Seferis Copy Share Image
I used to say Edinburgh was a beautiful actress with no talent. I thought it was just like a shortbread tin. I… — Michelle Gomez Copy Share Image
Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image