Confronted with people who have power, and who enjoy using it, I turn into a different person, a baser and meaner one. — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“For when is the child the ideal child in our eyes and to our hearts? Is it not when with gentle hand… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
If I should see your eyes again, I know how far their look would go -- Back to a morning in the… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
To-day I think Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot's seed, And the square mustard field;… — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
I wanted to make sure the last chapters of my life were full, and painting, it turns out, has helped occupy not… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Seek and Hide: the Lover gazes at the Beloved. The Beloved looks away. The Beloved turns and looks at the Lover. The… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Harpernus Stoyan, if you can't behave yourself and go and turn all Roman hands and Russian Fingers under that comforter, you're going… — Lynsay Sands Copy Share Image
What is the story with the airport sinks, that they will not give us a twist-on twist-off human faucet. "Is it that… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Well for the drones of the social hive that there are bees of an industrious turn, willing, for an infinitesimal share of… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
Every gift contains a danger. Whatever gift we have we are compelled to express. And if the expression of that gift is… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
It comes with being sixteen," Mom said. "You teenagers, you go into a cocoon when you turn fifteen and don't come out… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
Publication is rather like pushing the boat out; then the boat/book turns into a melting ice floe and you have to conjure… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
I think that in human evolution it has never been as necessary to have this substance LSD. It is just a tool… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fall is my favorite my time of the year. I love it. I'll try and make it back to Vancouver a bunch.… — Jean-Luc Bilodeau Copy Share Image
When a child is born, I once explained to the kids, some dads lay down bottles of wine for them that will… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
My career is media. One can turn on the TV or look at a magazine and see me. — Leryn Franco Copy Share Image
Turns out Picasso's passion for uncertainty, mystery, and the thrill of life never ended. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The American house has been TV-centered for three generations. It is the focus of family life, and the life of the house… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
What were the odds that she'd turn away at the same instant the ball came flying her way? And that she'd be… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I think Oscar Wilde wrote a poem about a robin who loved a white rose. He loved it so much that he… — Mary Pickford Copy Share Image
You have the power to think differently about who you are. You have the ability to turn off the critical voice inside… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Quitting, for me, means not giving up, but moving on; changing direction not because something doesn’t agree with you, but because you… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
