Quotes of: Selected Keyword

Long have I dwelt forgotten here In pining woe and dull despair; This place of solitude and gloom Must be my dungeon and my tomb.

The Bronte Sisters: Selected Poems

They were relieved that I was chosen by a human being," she'd said to Angelica in her dry voice. "They were braced for an interspecies liaison.

Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories

Hunger justifies the middle classes.

4 Dada Suicides: Selected Texts of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma, and Jacques Vaché

The present is always the best, even when its rough.

4 Dada Suicides: Selected Texts of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma, and Jacques Vaché

Coffee is a warm drink that fosters friendship and tastes great. What more is there to life?

The Art and Craft of Coffee: An Enthusiast's Guide to Selecting, Roasting, and Brewing Exquisite Coffee

I'm a coffee expert. I'm not a medical expert, but I play one on TV. - on Oprah Winfrey interview

The Art and Craft of Coffee: An Enthusiast's Guide to Selecting, Roasting, and Brewing Exquisite Coffee

And how easy it is to recognize the revenant shapes that the old unchanging enemies—racism, leader worship, superstition—assume when they reappear amongst us (often bodyguarded by their new apologists).

Arguably: Selected Essays

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau

There is a charm in Solitude that cheers A feeling that the world knows nothing of A green delight the wounded mind endears After the hustling world is broken off

John Clare: Selected Poetry and Prose

Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories...

Revolution in Guinea: Selected Texts

One cat just leads to another." [Letter from Finca Vigia, Cuba, to his first wife, Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (1943).]

Selected Letters 1917-1961

It’s hard to have done all one’s growing up since 33 — but that’s a damn sight better than not growing up at all.

Selected Letters V: 1934-1937

If you can't stand the heat in the kitchen, keep cooking. Success comes from repeatedly doing things that make you uncomfortable.

Success Is a Side Effect: Leadership, Relationships, and Selective Amnesia

Now seen...now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy...though it's here and gone.

Mirror For The Moon: A Selection Of Poems

Beyond this life and This world I'll have it til My heart's content: The bright moon that passed over The horizon before I had my fill.

Mirror For The Moon: A Selection Of Poems

Last year, Yoshino, I walked away bending branches To point me to blossoms-- Which now are everywhere and I can Go where I've never been before.

Mirror For The Moon: A Selection Of Poems

Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today. Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.

Nature and Selected Essays

if you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces.

On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978

Ah! The anguish, the vile rage, the despair Of not being able to express With a shout, an extreme and bitter shout, The bleeding of my heart.

A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems

It is the function of science to discover the existence of a general reign of order in nature and to find the causes governing this order. And this refers in equal measure to the relations of man - social and political - and to the entire universe as...

Mendeleev on the Periodic Law: Selected Writings, 1869 - 1905

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

Second Words: Selected Critical Prose