Sara Teasdale Quotes
Down the hill I went, and then, I forgot the ways of men, For night-scents, heady and damp and cool Wakened ecstasy
Sara Teasdale
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Apparently, Mayella's recital had given her confidence, but it was not her father's brash kind: there was something stealthy about hers, like a steady-eyed cat with a twitchy tail.
Harper Lee
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I have two very cogent reasons for not printing any list of subscribers; - one, that I have lost all the names, - the other, that I have spent all the money.
Samuel Johnson
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When I'm all alone it's the best way to be. When I'm by myself nobody else can say goodbye. Everything is temporary anyway. When the streets are wet - the colors slip into the sky. But I don't know why that means you and I are - that means you and... I quit, I give up. Nothin's good enough for anybody else, it seems.
Edie Brickell
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Monks mass like a pack of wolves from disputing with the masters who instruct them - They know not when deep dark and dawn divorce nor who sends the wind, nor who moves it, where it disappears to, what land it strikes.
Taliesin
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Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact that algebra and geometry are different in appearance. Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.
Omar Khayyam
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'Eh bien, Mademoiselle, all through my life I have observed one thing - 'All one wants one gets!' Who knows?' His face screwed itself up comically. 'You may get more than you bargain for.'
Agatha Christie
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Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.
Loretta Lynn
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There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.
Josiah Strong
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There was a very consistent creation of a virtual reality, and eventually it collided with our old-fashioned, ordinary reality.
Hans Blix
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If the voice of the brook was not the first song of celebration, it must have been at least an obbligato for that event.
Hal Borland
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A bank in Washington was robbed by two men in George W. Bush masks. Luckily, right afterwards two guys in President Obama masks came and bailed the bank out, so everything is fine.
Conan O'Brien
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Down the hill I went, and then, I forgot the ways of men, For night-scents, heady and damp and cool Wakened ecstasy
Sara Teasdale
