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Helen Keller: Of all the...

Helen Keller: Of all the...

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Emily Dickinson: The Possible's slow...

Emily Dickinson: The Possible's slow...

The Possible's slow fuse is lit
By the Imagination.


Source: In Webster's...

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Emily Dickinson: Our journey had...

Emily Dickinson: Our journey had...

Our journey had advanced;
Our feet were almost come
To that odd fork in Being's road,
Eternity by...

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Catherine Deneuve: Film is a...

Catherine Deneuve: Film is a...

Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and...

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Isadora Duncan: All my life...

Isadora Duncan: All my life...

All my life I have struggled to make one authentic gesture.

Source: In The...

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Judith Jamison: I remember always...

Judith Jamison: I remember always...

I remember always the need to know myself, because if I avoid know ing who I am deep inside, then I can't express what...

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Roseanne Barr: A good...

Roseanne Barr: A good...

A good man doesn't just happen. They have to be created by us women. A guy is a lump like a...

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Emily Dickinson: Nature, like us...

Emily Dickinson: Nature, like us...

Nature, like us is sometimes caught
Without her diadem.


Source: The Complete...

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Emily Dickinson: Heaven is so...

Emily Dickinson: Heaven is so...

Heaven is so far of the Mind
That were the Mind dissolved --
The Site --of it --by Architect
Could not again...

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Emily Dickinson: This is my...

Emily Dickinson: This is my...

This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me--
The simple News that Nature told--
With tender...

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Emily Dickinson: Remorse --is Memory...

Emily Dickinson: Remorse --is Memory...

Remorse --is Memory --awake --
Her Parties all astir --
A Presence of Departed Acts --
At window --and at...

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Emily Dickinson: Finite to fail,...

Emily Dickinson: Finite to fail,...

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...

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Cher: If you really...

Cher: If you really...

If you really want something, you can figure out how to make it happen.

Source: In...

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Ethel Barrymore: That's all there...

Ethel Barrymore: That's all there...

That's all there is, there isn't any more.

Source: Curtain call, 1904.
-- Ethel...

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Lillian Carter: I love all...

Lillian Carter: I love all...

I love all my children, but some of them I don't like.

Source: In Woman, 9 Apr...

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Naomi Mitchison: I read a...

Naomi Mitchison: I read a...

I read a lot of archaeology and early history in a general way, not thinking particularly of this book, and this...

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Johanna Spyri: She knows what...

Johanna Spyri: She knows what...

She knows what she sees. She has her eyes in the right place.

Source: Heidi, Ch....

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Emmuska Orczy: To love, for...

Emmuska Orczy: To love, for...

To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers...

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Lois McMaster Bujold: All virtues come...

Lois McMaster Bujold: All virtues come...

All virtues come down to courage, at the sharp end of the sword. But courage must be tempered by prudence. Courage...

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Harriet Beecher Stowe: The obstinacy of...

Harriet Beecher Stowe: The obstinacy of...

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

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