The days of languorous shore leave are long gone. Overnight stays are unheard of and sailor towns a distant memory. In better… — Rose George Copy Share Image
Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was… — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
Sit and be still until in the time of no rain you hear beneath the dry wind's commotion in the trees the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
So long as Donald Trump is powerful and popular, Fox News is going to achieve an advertising bonanza unheard of in the… — David Frum Copy Share Image
To wait - only to wait - without even the final merciful deprivation of hope.Sometimes I think that some secret court must… — Anna Kavan Copy Share Image
In the beginning [Hitler] was genial and pleasant. He would have extraordinary willpower and unheard-of influence on people. — Hermann Goring Copy Share Image
“Would I always feel so small that it hurt and that even the greatest outcry roaring from my throat was, in reality,… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
GRINNING, DUCKING MY HEAD FOR BALANCE, I START TO SPIN WILDLY AS I CAN. THAT IS MY FAVORITE DANCE, BECAUSE IT CONTAINS… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young… — Kathryn Minshew Copy Share Image
When school district officials literally laughed at the notion that the Me Generation — this was the label for my generation —… — Wendy Kopp Copy Share Image
It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
When I first came into international running, most runners did about 60-70 miles or running a week. I guess that is still… — Gerry Lindgren Copy Share Image
Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Heavens, how charming it is! There is now in the sky only the soft vaporous color of pale citron - the last… — Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot Copy Share Image
To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a… — Charles Perrault Copy Share Image
To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
This is true in other fields, too, that a legal aid lawyer gets a whole lot less money than a Hollywood lawyer… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I often used to think myself inthe case of the fox-hunter, who, when he had toiled and sweated all day in the… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
For all these years I kept my mouth closed so selfish desires would not fall out. And because I remained quiet for… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
I'm not doing any crazy stuff any more. Like I used to do high falls; I used to jump from the motorcycle… — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
Does not the whole history of socialism, particularly of French socialism, which is so rich in revolutionary striving, show us that when… — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
An undertaking of great magnitude and importance, the successful accomplishment of which, in so comparatively short a period, notwithstanding the unheard of… — John By Copy Share Image
It is unheard-of, uncivilized barbarism that any woman should still be forced to bear such monstrous torture. It should be remedied. It… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
God has been everlastingly working in Silence, unobserved, unheard, except by those who experience His Infinite Silence. Those who have got the… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
At the very least, participatory involvement with the many forms of art can enable us to see more in our experience, to… — Maxine Greene Copy Share Image
Christians fail to communicate to others because we ignore basic principles in relationship. When we make condescending judgments or proclaim lofty words… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Fortunately, I'm able to make a living from comics, so I'm privileged enough to be quite choosy, though most cartoonists can't afford… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image