All the excitements of a prohibited book had their usual effect, one of which, as always, is to expose the fact that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
In view of my services in Africa, I have the chance of dying by poison. Two generals have brought it with them.… — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn't allow her to follow… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
But it was not the room’s disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began searching for the key… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Something doesn't start at its usual time. Something doesn't happen as it should. Someone was always, always here, then suddenly disappeared and… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
. . some moment happens in your life that you say yes right up to the roots of your hair, that makes… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The saint, we are told, once lived a life of sin - nothing spectacular, of course, just the usual things. — Nissim Ezekiel Copy Share Image
He had on a funny T-shirt, as usual. Today's featured acartoon figure running from a giant T. rex, and it read EXERCISE:… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
We're normally caught up in the current of our thinking, feelings and emotions. With awareness, we can observe it all without being… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of… — William James Copy Share Image
I grew up in L.A., and I worked for 'The Hollywood Reporter.' I knew enough about the business to know that the… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings… — Robert Koch Copy Share Image
The feeling is that the end game is in play for Iraq and we saw this yesterday, but the reality is that… — John Smith Copy Share Image
My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually… — Faye Moskowitz Copy Share Image
The latter. She had a good run, Sook said, doing a little shrug. It was his usual response to death at Mapleshade,… — Lisa Lutz Copy Share Image
The usual designation of the magnitude scale to my name does less than justice to the great part that Dr. Gutenberg played… — Charles Francis Richter Copy Share Image
I looked at Thalia. "You're afraid of heights." Now that we were safely down the mountain, her eyes had their usual angry… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I'm pretty sure lurking in a dark alley to mug me with your apology isn't the usual way to go about saying… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The usual way the people are taught to think in amerika is that each subject is in a little compartment and has… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
The abstract, especially in those rough sketches, is very important to me, perhaps because of my advertising background, where layout is so… — Tom of Finland Copy Share Image
The cream-tiled walls were spattered here and there with old dried bloodstains, deep gouges that might have been clawmarks, and all kinds… — Simon R. Green Copy Share Image
Ah walk doon Hammersmith Broadway, London seeming strange and alien, after only a three-month absence, as familiar places do when you’ve been… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
