(1042 quotes found)
“Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!. . . This love feel I.”
William Shakespeare
“You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.”
William Langewiesche
“Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.”
Doug Horton
“Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion”
Will Rogers
“Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.”
Dame Edith Sitwell
“The lowest form of popular culture -- lack of information, misinformation, misinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives -- has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.”
Carl Bernstein
“The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame”
Charles Caleb Colton
“[To simplify] is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without -- and yet preserve the spirit of the whole.”
Willa Sibert Cather
“But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.”
Terry Pratchett
