top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Such I hold to be the genuine use of Gunpowder: that it makes all men tall."
Standard
Customized
More
"Her sample drawings were clipped, rather subordinately, to her photograph. All of them were arresting. One of them was unforgettable. The unforgettable one was done in florid wash colors, with a caption that read: 'Forgive Them Their Trespasses.' It showed three small boys fishing in an odd-looking body of water, one of their jackets draped over a 'No Fishing!' sign. The tallest boy, in the foreground of the picture, appeared to have rickets in one leg and elephantiasis in the other--an effect, it was clear, that Miss Kramer had deliberately used to show that the boy was standing with his feet slightly apart."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The fire that burns against the cold."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A girl without braidsis like a city without bridges."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Birds are the eyes of heaven, and flies are the spies of hell."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The the glow become brighter: a holographic golden sickle with a few sheaves of wheat, rotating just above Meg McCaffrey.A boy in the crowd gasped. 'She's a communist!'A girl who'd been sitting at Cabin Four's table gave him a disgusted sneer. 'No, Damien, that's my mom's symbol."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There was a necklace inside. A thin silver chain with a small pendant, a silver pansy."
Author Name
Personal Development
"His gaze, bluntedby the unnumbered processionof iron bars, uncountedas his softly padded steps.Smooth motion of blood and sinewturning in its own, small circleprescribed by bars and walls...and skin, confined.Suddenly, without warning,a flash of light and imagepierces the caged brain,and passing through its beating heartto stillness finds its way."
Author Name
Personal Development
"It was all extremely symbolic; but then, if you choose to think so, nothing in this world is not symbolical."
Author Name
Personal Development
"That's oak leaf, for bravery. I've got Veronica and Honeysuckle, for fidelity and affection. And that's Peony, for shame. She lives under this rock.""Did you make that up by yourself?""'Course not. That's the language of flowers. Everyone knows that.""No, they don't. I don't.""Everyone used to know. They sent each other messages. Like Bluebells means, 'I'll always love you' and Jasmine means 'We're friends.' and Asphodels... Asphodels are for the dead."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The small wad of burning paper drew down to a wisp of flame and then died out leaving a faint pattern for just a moment in the incandescence like the shape of a flower, a molten rose. Then all was dark again."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects."
Vision
"He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years."
Vision
"Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong."
Science
"Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will."
Life
"Time is the silent never-resting thing ... rolling rushing on swift silent like an all-embracing oceantide on which we and all the universe swim."
Time
"Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
Music
"The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall."
Man
"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it."
Science
"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."
Age
"Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher some spiritual hero."
Religion
bottom of page