Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.

Thomas Carlyle

Quotes to Explore

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- Soul
- Thoughts
- Language
Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.

Walter Kirn
- Different
- Book
- Movie
When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike.

Caitlin Moran
- Myself
- Exercise
- Bike
I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.

Mal Peet
- Up
- School
- High
Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

Ralph Cudworth
- Mind
- Running
- Like
I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

Barry Mann
- Fear
- Waiting
- Inspired