The Bible is not a book of magic. It's a book of mystery. You can't just quote verses that support your prejudices… — Mel White Copy Share Image
The impact of the Yemeni manuscripts is still to be felt. Their variant readings and verse orders are all very significant. Everybody… — Andrew Rippin Copy Share Image
When I finish writing a rap verse. It's a lot like sex: You start off slow with ideas, like foreplay, and then… — Drake Copy Share Image
You could play the blues like it was a lonesome thing - it was a feeling. The blues is nothing but a… — David Edwards Copy Share Image
I hardly know what I'm going to write - an article, a story, a poem in free verse - or in some… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Adrienne Rich was one of the most widely-read and influential poets of her time, a leading feminist, known especially for her politically-engaged… — Earl Scruggs Copy Share Image
She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
France at the dinner table in faraway places; but here, among ourselves, in the family, let us face the facts: France is… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
We're not attacking Islam but Islam has attacked us. The God of Islam is not the same God. He's not the son… — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
Once it happened, as I lay awake at night, that I suddenly spoke in verses, in verses so beautiful and strange that… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
I think participating in "Gishwhes" is a crash course in facing our fears: people go to crowded shopping malls wearing scuba gear,… — Misha Collins Copy Share Image
“Orion sniffed. "Good. Then, worthy centaur, perhaps you could give me a ride to the village on your back. Then I can… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of English poetic practice. This… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
I always look for a "rhythm" in my writing. A cadence to the sentences. Sometimes I think of pieces I write in… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Both in verse and in prose [Karl] Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
You relax within the verse. You realize the structure of the verse and relax into it. It's like swimming. Or riding a… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
I think it's important to keep mantras fresh (sometimes the same verse can get stale). That being said, I love this powerful… — Deena Kastor Copy Share Image
He that plays the king shall be welcome- his Majesty shall have tribute of me; the adventurous knight shall use his foil… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Human beings suffer agonies, and their sad fates become legends; poets write verses about them and playwrights compose dramas, and the remembrance… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
My life is like a song and I think I know the words, And as I start to sing along the whole… — MURS Copy Share Image
“Now this court will learn that I am the greatest in wit and courage. I am he whose writing the blind see… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My song 'Play It Again' is a perfect example of my music because the verses go so hard, and they're so urban;… — Becky G Copy Share Image
With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarro’s true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to… — Jeremy Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
In the U.S.A., we want to sing along with the chorus and ignore the verses, ignore the blues. . . No one… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I started with the chorus of that song, kind of like a fun bouncy thing to play, and then one of the… — Jorma Kaukonen Copy Share Image
My hermeneutics is when I see verses in Scripture that are "apparent" contradictions - I don't believe they are contradictions - I… — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
Horace, in a particularly boastful mood, once said his verse would last as long as the vestal virgins kept going up the… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
And I just hope that I'm forgiven for carin bout how they livin and loanin a little money and keepin em outta… — Drake Copy Share Image
I like poetry because poetry - even in free verse - is formal, and it has to be very concise and packed… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Publication there [in Nimbus] was to prove a turning point… The publication of his next volume of verse, Come Dance with Kitty… — Patrick Kavanagh Copy Share Image
Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
A sentence from Psalm 101 has been both challenging and convicting for me: 'I will walk in my house with blameless heart'… — Jean Fleming Copy Share Image
In folk music, I've always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don't know anything about… — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets,… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
May you know the love of God, more and more each day and know how much He values you in every little… — M S Lowndes Copy Share Image
![“We're not attacking Islam but Islam has attacked us. The God of Islam is not the same God. He's not the son of God of the Christian or Judeo-Christian faith. It's a different God, and I believe it [Islam] is a very evil and wicked religion. ... When you read the Koran and you read the verses from…” quote by Franklin Graham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36b/franklin-graham-7236_attacking_we-re-not-attacking-islam-but-islam-has_571407.png)
![“Both in verse and in prose [Karl] Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the naked truths or half-truths or quarter-truths that will make anybody's hair stand on end; he is always crying: "But he hasn't any clothes on!" about an emperor who is…” quote by Randall Jarrell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a12/randall-jarrell-3811_always-crying_both-in-verse-and-in-prose-karl-shapiro_1665278.png)
![“I think it's important to keep mantras fresh (sometimes the same verse can get stale). That being said, I love this powerful statement: 'Define yourself.' I rehearsed it a million times during the 2005 Chicago Marathon [her first win].” quote by Deena Kastor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9c4/deena-kastor-27390_chicago_i-think-it-s-important-to-keep-mantras-f_1437205.png)
![“Publication there [in Nimbus] was to prove a turning point… The publication of his next volume of verse, Come Dance with Kitty Stobling, was to be directly linked to the mini-collection in Nimbus, and his Collected Poems (1964)” quote by Patrick Kavanagh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c5e/patrick-kavanagh-14181_collections_publication-there-in-nimbus-was-to-prove_784703.png)
