In the Ramtops village where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe that no-one is finally dead until the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's like, the more you commit, the happier the animators are; if you're at all iffy and concerned, then it doesn't free… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
My enduring feeling about René Lévesque is that if he had chosen to hang me, even as he tightened the rope round… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
I paused to listen to the silence. My breath, crystallized as it passed my cheeks, drifted on a breeze gentler than a… — Richard E. Byrd Copy Share Image
History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the… — Han Suyin Copy Share Image
For a moment, I believe, there was a stillness. A shocking realization by all things - beetles, dormice, the spiders spinning their… — Alexander Masters Copy Share Image
We traveled for science: those three small embryos from Cape Crozier, that weight of fossils from Barkley Island, and that mass of… — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Copy Share Image
He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
The films of The Caine Mutiny and Marjorie Morningstar always seemed to me mere thin skims of the story lines, and I… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
A bird maintains itself in the air by imperceptible balancing, when near to the mountains or lofty ocean crags; it does this… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Some people do stage and film. Some people are film actors, and some people are stage actors. I'm quite sure that any… — Tracy Letts Copy Share Image
I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
In France, for example, it is not unusual for a husband to have a wife and a mistress. However, if in addition… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
Then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Intriguing isn't it? One day you are the king of your world. And the next day, you stand aside, watching it all… — Aleena Yasin Copy Share Image
My son will forever travel through a moonless night with only the roar of wind for company… A drowning man is not… — Michael Dorris Copy Share Image
I told Bernie Taupin that his best lyrics were for Song For Guy just because it doesn't have any words in it.… — Matt Lucas Copy Share Image
“Ujanja wote ulimwisha Murphy. Ilimbidi kutoboa siri ili adui asizidi kumuumiza. Alilaumu mno kufa wakati alishakula ng’ombe mzima. Alifikiri Mogens na Yehuda… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
Thanh Hoa itself is a rich agricultural province. Rice fields, a pattern of many shades of green, stretch far into the distance… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farmhouse far down the road, a long, agonized wailing, as if from fear.… — Bram Stoker Copy Share Image
Fiction writers have long turned to winter to advance bluer palettes, slicker surfaces, and sharper contrasts. The sky darkens, the wind picks… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Marriage is a plastic flower. Love is a real rose, but the real rose is beautiful in the morning; by the evening… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
However constant the visitations of sickness and bereavement, the fall of the year is most thickly strewn with the fall of human… — James Martineau Copy Share Image
What I love about what I've been given - and luck has a lot to do with it - is that if… — Julianna Margulies Copy Share Image
There is not a flower or bird in sight, only a small screen on which lines are moving, while the child sits… — John Davy Copy Share Image
“You think it is so different because you live here in this time, in this place, because I'm from the far side… — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
“Mom told me that love is like a seed. You've got to plant it to grow. But that's not all. You need… — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
The last word always belongs to the audience. ... Yes, that is a most powerful feeling. One that is worth savouring on… — Ruth Cracknell Copy Share Image
Out of date, perhaps, but who wasn't these days? Out of date, but loyal to his own time. At a certain moment,… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
People are so obsessed with that these days. As long as you're healthy, what difference do a few pounds make? Crazy diets.… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
Fall leaves are brilliant with gold and red. You can cup them in your hand and wonder at them, be amazed at… — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
Even now, as I write this, I can still feel that tightness. And I want you to feel it--the wind coming off… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
He would have told her - he would have said, it matters not if you are here or there, for I see… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
And hate the bright stillness of the noon without wind, without motion. the only other living thing a hawk, hungry for prey,… — Dana Gioia Copy Share Image
If by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To… — John Milton Copy Share Image
A home is much more than a house built of lumber, brick, or stone. A home is made of love, sacrifice, and… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
And all over the countryside, he knew, on every crest and hill, where once the hedges had interlaced, and cottages, churches, inns,… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
