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It was almost a mystical experience. I do not know how else to put it. My mind outran time as he neared, and it was as though I had an eternity to ponder the approach of this man who was my brother. H...

Roger Zelazny

It was almost a mystical experience. I do not know how else to put it. My mind outran time as he neared, and it was as though I had an eternity to ponder the approach of this man who was my brother. H...

Roger Zelazny

Tags: mysticism, satori, time

It was a gorgeous evening, with a breeze shimmering through the trees, people strolling hand in hand through the quaint streets and the plaza. The shops, bistros and restaurants were abuzz with patron...

Susan Wiggs

It was a gorgeous evening, with a breeze shimmering through the trees, people strolling hand in hand through the quaint streets and the plaza. The shops, bistros and restaurants were abuzz with patron...

Susan Wiggs

Tags: cafes, churros, food and wine, isabel and cormac, restaurants, street music

It was a good thing, we told ourselves; the eyes grow weary with looking at new things; sleeping late, we said, has its genuine therapeutic value; we would be better for it, would be able to work more...

John Steinbeck

It was a good thing, we told ourselves; the eyes grow weary with looking at new things; sleeping late, we said, has its genuine therapeutic value; we would be better for it, would be able to work more...

John Steinbeck

Tags: contemplation, laziness, war

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

Raymond Chandler

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

Raymond Chandler

Tags: sex appeal

It suddenly occurred to me just how absurd this scene was: a guy wearing a suit of armor, standing next to an undead king, both hunched over the controls of a classic arcade game. It was the sort of s...

Ernest Cline

It suddenly occurred to me just how absurd this scene was: a guy wearing a suit of armor, standing next to an undead king, both hunched over the controls of a classic arcade game. It was the sort of s...

Ernest Cline

Tags: key, quest, ready player one, science, science fiction, undead, undead king, video game, video games, wade

It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when you’d eaten the same thing. Reminded you there were good days in life,...

Ron Rash

It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when you’d eaten the same thing. Reminded you there were good days in life,...

Ron Rash

Tags: comfort, food, good times

It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievem...

Alain de Botton

It seems, in fact, that the more advanced a society is, the greater will be its interest in ruined things, for it will see in them a redemptively sobering reminder of the fragility of its own achievem...

Alain de Botton

Tags: fame, folly, power, rank, ruins, society, wealth

It never is the who, is it? It's always the why. -Elphaba

Gregory Maguire

It never is the who, is it? It's always the why. -Elphaba

Gregory Maguire

It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good...

Martin Luther King, Jr.

It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good...

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Tags: change, generations, good people, indifference, repentance, silence, social justice, social movements, violence, vitriol

It may be that the voice of the people is the voice of God 51 times out of 100. But the remaining 49 times, it is the voice of the devil, or worse, the voice of a fool. Theodore Roosevelt

H.W. Brands

It may be that the voice of the people is the voice of God 51 times out of 100. But the remaining 49 times, it is the voice of the devil, or worse, the voice of a fool. Theodore Roosevelt

H.W. Brands

Tags: discernment, popularity

It mattered not how long he had wandered in the wilderness, how long they had kept him in chains, how long he had helped them and kept himself in his own chains; none of that mattered now. He patted t...

Edward P. Jones

It mattered not how long he had wandered in the wilderness, how long they had kept him in chains, how long he had helped them and kept himself in his own chains; none of that mattered now. He patted t...

Edward P. Jones

It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.

Margaret Atwood

It isn't running away they're afraid of. We wouldn't get far. It's those other escapes, the ones you can open in yourself, given a cutting edge.

Margaret Atwood

It isn't dying I'm afraid of, it isn't that at all; I know what it is to die, I've died already. It is the endless obliteration, the knowledge that there will never be anything else. That's what I can...

Cornell Woolrich

It isn't dying I'm afraid of, it isn't that at all; I know what it is to die, I've died already. It is the endless obliteration, the knowledge that there will never be anything else. That's what I can...

Cornell Woolrich

Tags: dying, writer, writers, writing

It is surprising, Roosevelt explained, how much reading a man can do in time usually wasted.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

It is surprising, Roosevelt explained, how much reading a man can do in time usually wasted.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

It is surprising how little narrow walls and a low ceiling matter, when the roof of the soul has suddenly been raised.

Edith Wharton

It is surprising how little narrow walls and a low ceiling matter, when the roof of the soul has suddenly been raised.

Edith Wharton

It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everythi...

Kurt Vonnegut

It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everythi...

Kurt Vonnegut

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.

Lois Lowry

It is so good to have friends who understand how there is a time for crying and a time for laughing, and that sometimes the two are very close together.

Lois Lowry

Tags: crying, friendship, happy, joy, laughter, sad, true friend

It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal.

Walker Percy

It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal.

Walker Percy

Tags: canaries, thanatos

It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.

R.C. Sproul

It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.

R.C. Sproul

Tags: christian faith, faith, god

It is one of the striking generalizations of biochemistry—which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical text-books—that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor rese...

Francis Crick

It is one of the striking generalizations of biochemistry—which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical text-books—that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor rese...

Francis Crick

Tags: gamow, generalizations, george gamow, james d watson, james watson, nature, nobel laureate, science, striking, watson
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