You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not… — Martial Copy Share Image
But in the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. No one would think of making an after-dinner speech… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Let not a single day pass without your learning a verse, half a verse, or a fourth of it, or even one… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
“...The verses of Byron, Keats or Poe are real whether they are in bootleg form or not. You can still read them… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
I've forgotten lines all the time. Sometimes I switch verses in a song. It's just hard not to when you're doing the… — Josh Young Copy Share Image
From the moment that photography appeared, the descriptive genre began to invade Letters... In verse as in prose the décor and exterior… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
When I turned 18, my mom, my nana and I all went and had tattoos of our favorite Bible verses put on… — Jordin Sparks Copy Share Image
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
“At one time I was weary of verse writing, and wanted to give it up. At another time I was determined to… — Matsuo Bashō Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as an author. But simply as a grateful child of God. John 3:27 has long been a… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the… — Edmund Waller Copy Share Image
There were a few verses that I wrote literally on the spot. But the concept was there. It's about being in your… — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll have sections that I'm not quite sure how they fit in the puzzle of a tune, they'll get moved around;… — Gotye Copy Share Image
I am praying to the Lord hat He will bless your day and that youd find a quietness when to Him, you… — M S Lowndes Copy Share Image
Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
"Face Again" is actually the most George Saunders-y song. Basically the verses, I'm describing a world where love is being killed, and… — How to Dress Well Copy Share Image
Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
It is true Christians have done terrible things throughout history. But they've always been acting in opposition to their Christian faith. There… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
I started wanting desperately to say something, to make a point, to be heard - and I still feel that way. Free… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
In the art of design, color is to form what verse is to prose,--a more harmonious and luminous vehicle of the thought. — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Marriage is not for me. I tell you that I am Blank Verse. I am talent, and I do not rhyme with… — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Copy Share Image
The blues is nothing but a story... The verses which are sung in the blues is a true story, what people are… — David Edwards Copy Share Image
The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and verse is merely prose. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I had more verses . Owen Bradley said, 'Loretta, there's already been one El Paso and we'll never have another one. Get… — Loretta Lynn Copy Share Image
I know as well as thee that I am no poet born It is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
And If the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the… — Richard Selzer Copy Share Image
After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
May Gods many blessings be yours forever more and may you know youre valued aAnd loved by the Lord. Especially on this… — M S Lowndes Copy Share Image
We need the whole song, all the verses and the choruses to serve us as our own story unfolds because- trust me-… — Gloria Gaither Copy Share Image
But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband. -Ephesians 5:33 — Bible Copy Share Image
We're not attacking Islam but Islam has attacked us. The God of Islam is not the same God. It's a different God,… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
My freestyling ability is nonexistent. I can't even write a verse if I tried to sit anywhere and write one. Being a… — Michael Rapaport Copy Share Image
There is a verse [in the Koran] that says God swears by time. Anything you gain in life, you pay for with… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king. — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
The gap between verse and poetry is enormous. Between good poetry and good prose the gap is much narrower — Michael Longley Copy Share Image
When you are old, at evening candlelit, Beside the fire bending to your wool, Read out my verse and murmur, "Ronsard writ… — Pierre de Ronsard Copy Share Image
So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now? The poetry of Adam Zagajewski provides the beginning of an answer… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
I have wonderful band mates that make music that I'm forced to listen to for hours on end until I come up… — Nikki Jean Copy Share Image