A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
There are like twenty people in that waiting room right now. Some of them are related to you. Some of them are… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
He snatched out his hand desperately as if to snatch only a wisp of air, to save a fragment of the spot… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Ideas, we all know, are not born in people's heads. They begin somewhere out there, loose wisps of smoke swirling directionless in… — Mia Couto Copy Share Image
During the day, our souls gather their ... impressions of us, how our lives feel. ... Our spirits collect these impressions, keep… — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
Rely upon your own judgment; be true to your own conscience; follow the light that is within you; all outward lights are… — James Allen Copy Share Image
Light That's how I feel- like the winter-fringed breeze might scoop me up into its wings, fly away with me trapped in… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, i was reminded of something - an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Hour of Stars (1920) The round silence of night, one note on the stave of the infinite. Ripe with lost poems, I… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
We have already shown that there is no such thing as free will. That's a will-o'-the-wisp. You never make choices without reasons,… — John Gerstner Copy Share Image
She turned to face him. She reached over and touched his hand, hesitantly, gently, amazed that after all these years had somehow… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The next day the Indian told me their name for this light,--artoosoq',--and on my inquiring concerning the will-o'-the-wisp, and the like phenomena,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A war undertaken without sufficient monies has but a wisp of force. Coins are the very sinews of battles. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
How Time doth lash us with sharp pains, Set loose our teeth, snatch wisps of hair, dim eyes -- And finally bend… — William Batchelder Greene Copy Share Image
Skylark,Have you seen a valley green with SpringWhere my heart can go a-journeying,Over the shadows in the rainTo a blossom covered lane?And… — Johnny Mercer Copy Share Image
In the last two months I have been very busy with my own mathematical speculations, which have cost me much time, without… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The grapes on a score of rolling hills are red with autumn flame. Across Sonoma Mountain wisps of sea fog are stealing.… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Financial "synergy" is a will-o'-the-wisp.It looks good on paper, but it fails to work out in practice. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me. When I was young I longed to write a great… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof...What I mean is that… — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
