My gripe is not with lovers of the truth but with truth herself. What succor, what consolation is there in truth, compared… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I wrote about Bosnia at the time. Somebody looked out their window and saw gangsters coming down the street and doing ethnic… — Harold Evans Copy Share Image
They said daydreaming was against the law, but some of us escaped, slipping out windows and over cyclone fences, some of us… — Vern Rutsala Copy Share Image
Somewhere along the way, the idea, which I think was initially to get some fair transaction between people, went out the window.… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
There were days, rainy gray days, when the streets of Brooklyn were worthy of a photograph, every window the lens of a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I was literally 3 years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life, through primary school, secondary school, all… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
When [Bernie] Sanders was challenged about how he would pass his visionary ideas after he became president, he talked about if lawmakers… — Ben Wikler Copy Share Image
Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts,… — Ethel Smyth Copy Share Image
We have this window of opportunity; we have a chance to make something real happen. Something possible happen, to live beyond our… — Michel'le Copy Share Image
I travel alone so much, and the first thought is to grab the damn phone. In airports, just look around. Nobody looks… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Clay is fashioned into vessels; it is on their empty hollowness that their use depends. Doors and windows are cut out to… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling — a somehow melancholy feeling. He was outside; he passed on… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It's a fine balance between design and the thing making itself happen. The stroke has to have complete precision to work. Sometimes… — James Nares Copy Share Image
The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye, that opened suddenly, and softly in the evening. Now— James… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Outside, the rain sometimes comes down so hard, we have to talk louder, and it feels like a miracle that the roof… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
The evenings grew longer; kitchen windows stayed open after dinner and peepers could be heard in the marsh. Isabelle, stepping out to… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
If they are not an advanced race from the future, are we dealing instead with a parallel universe, another dimension where there… — Jacques Vallee Copy Share Image
Strangers with puzzled looks were amazingly cooperative in letting me into their rooms with my photographic gear. They let me take down… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
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I see a lot of possibilities in the age of my characters - between 18 and 21. You have a window of… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
And now I was seeing that there was something really cool about that family. All of them. They were just...real. And who… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
I stood in the bay window at our house and I sang Away In A Manger. It was my first time on… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
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I knew something as I watched: almost everyone was saying goodbye to me. I was becoming one of the many little-girl-losts. They… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
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You will remember when a bird crashed through the window and fell to the floor. You will remember, those of you who… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Freud's theory was that when a joke opens a window and all those bats and bogeymen fly out, you get a marvellous… — Ken Dodd Copy Share Image
Once I was coming down a street in Beverly Hills and I saw a Cadillac about a block long, and out of… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
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The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can… — Jim Lovell Copy Share Image
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Okay, I guess you can come in." "Um, Hannah, you have to, you know, open the front door so I can actually… — Elizabeth Scott Copy Share Image