He loved the extensive vaults where you could hear the night birds and the sea breeze; he loved the craggy ruins bound… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. That the starry vault shall surcharge… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The effect of civilization is to impose human law upon environment until it becomes machine-like in its regularity. The objectionable is eliminated,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
When I tell people I'm going to the Olympics, they're like: 'What do you do, track and field? Pole vault? Are you… — Diana Lopez Copy Share Image
Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As the moon's fair image quaketh In the raging waves of ocean, Whilst she, in the vault of heaven, Moves with silent… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
For the longest time I studied revenge to the exclusion of all else. I built my first torture chamber in the dark… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
With film, oftentimes you work in a vacuum and then you get on a high wire and then you try it and… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open. — Goran Persson Copy Share Image
Are you by any chance acquainted with the words 'steel toe'? Or do the words 'permanent dent' mean anything to you?" My… — David Klass Copy Share Image
No, not under the vault of another sky, not under the shelter of other wings. I was with my people then, there… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
My father and grandfather were stockbrokers, and they would actually take stock certificates from a vault, give it to a runner, and… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
The tomb of the Saviour was a narrow and empty vault, precious only for its memories of the supreme tragedy of the… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
Don't "pole-vault over mouse truds" - by the time you've discussed the many options available to you, the problem itself could have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
So we have giant super-smart vipers who slithered in here, killed our people, opened the vault, stole something from it, and slithered… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
Tender words we spoke to one another are sealed in the secret vaults of heaven. One day like rain, they will fall… — Rumi Copy Share Image
A choir of angels glorified the hour, the vault of heaven was dissolved in fire. "Father, why hast Thou forsaken me? Mother,… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
The sun had not risen, but the vault of heaven was rich with the winning, softness that "brings and shuts the day,"… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
This is what we have all come to Cannes for: for something different, experimental, a tilting at windmills, a great big pole-vault… — Peter Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could. — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
I love the pole vault because it is a professor's sport. One must not only run and jump, but one must think.… — Sergei Bubka Copy Share Image
