“It's like I've been stuffed full of twigs and all I have to do is bend and my body will break. All… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
Seeing then that truth consisteth in the right ordering of names in our affirmations, a man that seeketh precise truth, had need… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
'Botanicula' tells the story of a group of twigs, nuts, and leaves trying to escape with the life essence of a tree… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
O frost bitten blossoms, That are unfolding your wings From out the envious black branches. Bloom quickly and make much of the… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
My writing is very organic. It's what I am. My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
You know those things that you throw the twigs into and it spits them out? That's what I do. The branches are… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Homer and Shakespeare and Milton and Marvell and Wordsworth are but the rustling of leaves and crackling of twigs in the forest,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement, bears the light… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet:… — Marianne Boruch Copy Share Image
The summer day is closed - the sun is set: Well they have done their office, those bright hours, The latest of… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
He was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was always glimmering,… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not previously disturbed… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Seek first the kingdom of wealth and you'll worry over every dollar. Seek first the kingdom of health and you'll sweat every… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I like to summarize what I regard as the pedestal-smashing messages of Darwin's revolution in the following statement, which might be chanted… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
What shall I compare it to, this fantastic thing I call my Mind? To a waste-paper basket, to a sieve choked with… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
“In the moonlight David saw that Thoresby had become very peculiar indeed. Figs nestled among the leaves of beech-trees. Elder-trees were bowed… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Stones and bones; snow and frost; seeds and beans and polliwogs. Paths and twigs, assorted kisses, We all know who Daddy misses!… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
NovemberÂ’s days are thirty: NovemberÂ’s earth is dirty, Those thirty days, from first to last; And the prettiest things on ground are… — Edward Thomas Copy Share Image
“Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.” — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance - nothing more. But to… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
