Salamander: Originally a reptile inhabiting fire; later, an anthropomorphous immortal, but still a pyrophile. Salamanders are now believed to be extinct, the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
For the first five years of my life, I grew up in a log cabin in coastal British Columbia in a very… — Stewart Butterfield Copy Share Image
Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Sometimes she goes out to work as a practical nurse, and comes home and sits by the kitchen table soaking her feet… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
The people shall further be graded according to wealth, and—humorous touch this—the more obviously a man labor, the more stinting shall be… — Jamie O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Tilly returned with the dipper and timidly approached the Tick-Tock Man's throne. He took it and held it out to Jake. When… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
...she wasn't reading Deathly Hallows at all. Her book wasn't orange but rose and water and sand, and featured a kid on… — Melissa Anelli Copy Share Image
When you go to vacuum in the airlock and you take the hose off the front of your space suit, there's a… — Kathleen Rubins Copy Share Image
God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The garden of the soul, she says, can be watered in several manners. The first, drawing the water up from a well… — R. Thomas Ashbrook Copy Share Image
Real filth is the one inside. The rest simply washes off. There is only one type of dirt that cannot be cleansed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All men are partially buried inthe grave of custom, and of some we see only the crown of the head above ground.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“A family of four needs to transport around 200 pounds of water each and every day to meet its most minimal drinking,… — Steven Solomon Copy Share Image
The Captains of Industry have always counseled the rest of us "to be realistic." Let us, therefore, be realistic. Is it realistic… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It is the privilege of the rich To waste the time of the poor To water with tears in secret A tree… — Stevie Smith Copy Share Image
The golfer has more enemies than any other athlete. He has fourteen clubs in his bag, all of them different; 18 holoes… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
A narrow pond would form in the orchard, water clear as air covering grass and black leaves and fallen branches, all around… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When someone like Kurt Cobain or Jack White comes out, they didn't go, "He sounds just like Muddy Waters," did they? They… — Shingai Shoniwa Copy Share Image
If the river has a soul, it's a peaceful one. If it has a lesson to impart, that lesson is patience. There… — Therese Anne Fowler Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be a great thing if all who are well schooled in secular learning could hold fast to the "iron rod,"… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
I knew I wanted to be a performer and do comedy at 5 years old. My dad's wife, Marlene Rosenbaum, was boiling… — Sandra Bernhard Copy Share Image
One of the reasons to go to South Africa is because we can create great standing sets, both interior and exterior, and… — Chris Albrecht Copy Share Image
When I reached the summit of Everest, I scooped some ice into my drinking bottle as I'd run out of water and… — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
The dominant and most deep-dyed trait of the journalist is his timorousness. Where the novelist fearlessly plunges into the water of self-exposure,… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
And when my body shall cease, my soul will still be yours, Claire? I swear by my hope of heaven, I will… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
You can cook a limited number of sous vide recipes in a beer cooler, but if the person you're buying for wants… — J. Kenji Lopez-Alt Copy Share Image
You can put the greatest seafood restaurant next to an average steak house in an urban area, and that steak house will… — Tilman J. Fertitta Copy Share Image
To love a swamp, however, is to love what is muted and marginal, what exists in the shadows, what shoulders its way… — Barbara Hurd Copy Share Image
In his eyes shone the reflection of the most beautiful planet in the Universe---a planet that is not too hot and not… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Your heart is like a great river after a long spell of rain, spilling over its banks. All signposts that once stood… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I think a good product would be Baby Duck Hat. It's a fake baby duck, which you strap on top of your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
As was the case in Requiem for a Dream, Pollock, A Beautiful Mind, House of Sand and Fog, The Hulk and Dark… — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
It's going to be all right, sir," Harry said over and over again, more worried by Dumbledore's silence than he had been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Where the shadow of the bridge fell I could see down for a long way, but not as far as the bottom.… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
But to Sam the evening deepened to darkness as he stood at the Haven; and as he looked at the grey sea… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Patriotism at the expense of another nation is as wicked as racism at the expense of another race. . . Let us… — William Sloane Coffin Copy Share Image
The highest level of prayer is not a prayer for anything. It is a deep and profound silence, in which we allow… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
