“Do you know how hard it was to let you work tonight? To know that I can’t touch you or kiss you… — M. Leighton Copy Share Image
It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprig sang under my tongue, its drifting fragrance climbed up through my conscious mind as… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
The Soyuz craft weighs tons, and you're lying on the floor of it on your back. But the Russians do tell you,… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting,… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I don't work on poems and essays at once. They walk on different legs, speak with different tongues, draw from different parts… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
But it's very technical and you really have to work and work and work to crack it. It's about using your whole… — Marion Cotillard Copy Share Image
Let the Spirit be lacking, and there may be wisdom of words, but not the wisdom of God; the powers of oratory,… — Arthur Tappan Pierson Copy Share Image
Then I speak to her in a language she has never heard, I speak to her in Spanish, in the tongue of… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I have so much love for you, I could fill rooms with it. Buildings. You’re surrounded by it wherever you go, you… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Let the liberal turn to the course of action, the course of all radicals, and the amused look vanishes from the face… — Saul Alinsky Copy Share Image
Will we allow the decline of our language-the language of Shakespeare, Shaw and Steinbeck? Will we abuse our precious gift of communication?… — Mike Nichols Copy Share Image
During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress as did… — Philip Khuri Hitti Copy Share Image
My grandmother lived under Japanese colonial rule until she was nine. Korea, still united and whole, was colonized in 1910. During this… — Crystal Hana Kim Copy Share Image
As great Pythagoras of yore, Standing beside the blacksmith's door, And hearing the hammers, as they smote The anvils with a different… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“The woman's face was like a stone tablet, as if the president of the chess club had wandered over to the Goth… — Elizabeth Bard Copy Share Image
Bedeviled, / human, your plight, in waking, is to choose from the words / that even now sleep on your tongue, and… — Marie Howe Copy Share Image
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
In Phebus realm, in knowledge as in verse,All things are clear, the sun of Phoebus clear,Clear was his crystal, the Kastalian.What you… — Esaias Tegner Copy Share Image
On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
I still smile it's not worth the trouble any more for a long time now it's not been worth the trouble the… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I tell this anecdote with tongue in cheek at the start of my book William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, but… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
To look at life without words is not to lose the ability to form words- to think, remember, and plan. To be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We ourselves, though we're guilty of every sin, are not just a work of God: we're image. Yet we have cut ourselves… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
In the face of brutality I was prudent. Before injustice I held my peace. I sacrificed the things in hand for the… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
The men are mostly so slow, their thoughts overrun 'em, an' they can only catch 'em by the tail. I can count… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I witness that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world. He suffered and died for our sins and rose the third… — Neil L. Andersen Copy Share Image
I'm definitely in the market for being uncool. There was some funny stuff, like the thing about making sure I show people… — Ryan Adams Copy Share Image
The biggest issue for me has been the language because I speak so much German now. I've had to focus on my… — Motsi Mabuse Copy Share Image
Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model with collagen-puffed lips and silicone-inflated breasts, a woman in a magenta convertible with… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Invoking the letters of God's Name without presence of mind is invocation of the tongue; invoking with presence of mind is invocation… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
I dread the loss of her I've never touched love keeps me a slave in a cage of tears I gnaw my… — Sarah Kane Copy Share Image
but that mimosa grove - the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
