It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Mr. Bernard died on a Monday, at the age of seventy-five, his body wasted. He lay in state for two days in… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people, in any country I'm in, if somebody could just put me in a car or a bus,… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
“It is a lovely language,but it takes a very long time to say anything in it,unless it is worth taking a long… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
One day I would have all the books in the world, shelves and shelves of them. I would live my life in… — Jacqueline Kelly Copy Share Image
Right after my Twin Towers walk, I was approached by hundreds of people, and I said no to all the offers. I… — Philippe Petit Copy Share Image
We ask for what reason our Lord was unwilling to state the time of His coming (cf. Mk. 13:31-32). If we ask… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed. — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Renovating temples does not mean building great gate towers or receptacles for offerings. What we should focus on is the regular conduct… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
It is certainly not then-not in dreams- but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and the Tartar… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'. — Cher Copy Share Image
Lust is a strong tower of mischief, and hath in it many defenders, as neediness, anger, paleness, discord, love, and longing. — Diogenes Copy Share Image
Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape.… — George Takei Copy Share Image
“Towers’ is the name of the dormitory that I lived in in college; it’s made up of these two towers – North… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The great Emathian conqueror bid spare The house of Pindarus, when temple and tower Went to the ground. — John Milton Copy Share Image
In truth, “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” isn't about Sept. 11. It's about the impulse to drain that day of its specificity… — Manohla Dargis Copy Share Image
At the entrance to the original tower, there is a stone into which Jung carved some words with his own hand: 'Cold… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think 'Two Towers' is a completely distinct film from 'Fellowship of the Ring' or 'Return of the King.' I think that… — Howard Shore Copy Share Image
Culture is a sham if it is only a sort of Gothic front put on an iron building -- like Tower Bridge… — Eric Gill Copy Share Image
From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
Be not that far from me, for trouble is near; haste Thee to help me. Blessed be the Lord my strength, which… — Barry Pepper Copy Share Image
In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower, The spectral Owl doth dwell; Dull, hated, despised, in the sunshine hour, But… — Bryan Procter Copy Share Image
...It looked very different from the Statue of Liberty, but what did that matter? What was the good of having the statue… — Josephine Baker Copy Share Image
