William Cowper Quotes
As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.
William Cowper
Quotes to Explore
I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
Rafael Nadal
I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
Felicia Day
At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'
Lana Parrilla
I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.
Ed Oxenbould
They're just my weaknesses. Everyone is just constantly talking to me about it. It doesn't help.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.
Victoria Principal
You can't hold the record forever, and I know that. I'm not stupid.
Janet Jackson
It's impossible to redefine yourself and your life overnight.
Christina Aguilera
Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.
W. G. Sebald
To be born a Southern woman is to be made aware of your distinctiveness. And with it, the rules. The expectations. These vary some, but all follow the same basic template, which is, fundamentally, no matter what the circumstance, Southern women make the effort. Which is why even the girls in the trailer parks paint their nails. And why overstressed working moms still bake three dozen homemade cookies for the school fund-raiser. And why you will never see Reese Witherspoon wearing sweatpants. Or Oprah take a nap.
Allison Glock
The sin and the shame and the sorrow, The crime and the want and the woe That are born there in your workshop, No hand can paint, you know.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.
Gaston Bachelard