I taught myself how to pole vault in one day. The next day I entered a meet to pole vault and won… — Bo Jackson Copy Share Image
Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open. — Goran Persson Copy Share Image
Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt. — William Arthur Ward 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
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
“..the ceiling is just a deep, dusty dome, like the inside of a skull. (Both are vaults, both repositories of knowledge.)” — Sheridan Hay Copy Share Image
In every generation there is a vault-keeper, one who guards the links fiercely and knows they are more precious than rubies. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
Avicenna California...Museum of my twisted youth, vault of my dearest and most disgusting memories. — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Gymnastics is the type of sport where you can't take something that gives you more energy. Something may be great for the… — Shannon Miller Copy Share Image
The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is… — Bela Karolyi Copy Share Image
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
There are plenty of things in vaults that didn't sell in its time. So much stuff. But slowly these companies start to… — Devendra Banhart Copy Share Image
I wish that friendship should have feet, as well as eyes and eloquence. It must plant itself on the ground, before it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every abstract picture of the world is as impossible as a blueprint of a storm. Don't be ashamed because you're human: be… — Tomas Transtromer Copy Share Image
It's hard to pass up a pole vault opportunity here in Des Moines. The crowd was so great when I was at… — Jenn Suhr Copy Share Image
The patient man is merry indeed… The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
Aeronautics confers beauty and grandeur, combining art and science for those who devote themselves to it. . . . The aeronaut, free… — Georges Besancon Copy Share Image
Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to its… — John Noble Wilford Copy Share Image
p.61 He [Roark] was usually disliked, from the first sight of his face, anywhere he went. His face was closed like the… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart-- The heart which… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I cannot life for life itself: but for the words which stay the flux. My life, I feel, will not be lived… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Man himself is an enigma in motion; his questions never stay asked; whereas the mold, the footprint, and by natural extension, the… — Emile Chartier Copy Share Image
Wherefore a monk's whole attention should thus be fixed on one point, and the rise and circle of all his thoughts be… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Beliefs constitute the basic stratum, that which lies deepest, in the architecture of our life. By them we live, and by the… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Our respect for the dead, when they are just dead, is something wonderful, and the way we show it more wonderful still.… — John Ruskin 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
It was, just as Kinski had predicted, suicide. He should never have done it. It is widely held by those who knew… — Cintra Wilson Copy Share Image
Mickey is a secret journal chained closed with a padlock, slammed inside a vault and dropped into the middle of the Pacific… — Noel Fisher Copy Share Image
We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven. — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
Floor exercise, the longest you run is two or three steps. In the vault, it's not a whole lot more than that. — Shannon Miller Copy Share Image
The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection... — Carl Jung Copy Share Image