You see, time is an ocean, not a garden hose. Space is a puff of smoke, a wisp of cloud. — David Wong Copy Share Image
To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life. — Kurt Vonnegut 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
Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one… — Maya Angelou 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
Have a care how you speak to me, Imp. Doubtless he meant to sound threatening, but that absurd wisp of a mustache… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Genius is a will-o'-the-wisp if it lacks a solid foundation of perseverence and fanatical tenacity. This is the most important thing in… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but… — Vincent Van Gogh 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
How do you stop longing for what you absolutely know you can't get? Which really means: How do you absolutely know you… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
17. Butterfly A butterfly fluttered its wings in a wind thick with the smell of seaweed. His dry lips felt the touch… — Ryūnosuke Akutagawa Copy Share Image
There is a scene in the movie where Astrid and Hiccup fly on Toothless's back toward the island of Berk. The animation… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
At times it seemed unfair that I should be paid for my work; for driving out in the early morning with the… — James Herriot Copy Share Image
I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. So at this wonderful, young age of 65,… — Maya Angelou 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
Man is a flux of states of consciousness, a flow of passing thoughts, each thought of self another self, a myriad thoughts,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
To see ourselves as we truly are—a wisp of love itself—is perhaps our deepest fear. But it is also our greatest grace.… — Judy Cannato Copy Share Image
This is the day of wonders. The land is covered with trees like a head with hair and behind the ship the… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Being the only female in what was basically a boys’ club must have been difficult for her. Miraculously, she didn’t compensate by… — Donna Tartt 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
Imagine ten or tweleve orange chairs arrainged in a circle, with the happy woen from the flyer sitting at opposite ends. Only… — Jay Asher 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
“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
If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poetry is a sequence of dots and dashes, spelling depths, crypts, cross-lights, and moon wisps. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Her legs went on forever, like staring at infinity through a wisp of cotton panty along a skin of satin sea. — Jethro Tull 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
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
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
Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. --People of Sparks-- — Jeanne DuPrau Copy Share Image
Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Eradication of microbial disease is a will-o'-the-wisp; pursuing it leads into a morass of hazy biological concepts and half truths. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
And for just a fleeting moment, a tiny wisp of time that hung in the air like fireflies in summer skies, she… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
He was pushing fifty, with a face life had chewed on, and long wisps of graying hair parted low on one side… — Patricia Cornwell Copy Share Image
