Bats drink on the wing, like swallows, by sipping the surface, as they play over pools and streams.
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JOHN BERRYMAN Some sipping punch, some sipping tea,/ But, as you by their faces see,/ All silent and all damned!
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH White House sources have cast aspersions on... the vast right wing (surely half-vast is what they me...
ERIC ZORN Those kids really play our system as well as anybody. By just playing the same way and Gilbert jumpi...
DON HAY When the forwards play like that, there is no better team in the world to play on the wing for.
GARETH THOMAS Your hurt swallows ine, like space swallows time, and the two intertwine. We tangle together.
ELLEN HOPKINS Well, I've always been a bit freaked out by manmade pools of water-the drain, like a pit in the eart...
FRANK MULLINS It's like winning the Lottery and the (football) pools on the same night.
BEN ROBINSON I know this is a White House priority. They feel they stand a real chance of getting the funding str...
RICHARD SAUNDERS Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
FRANCIS BACON Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they ever fly by twilight.
FRANCIS BACON SR. Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere...
NEIL GAIMAN We scored early, but the bats kind of fell silent in the middle of the game. They take their basebal...
DAVE ROY And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks,
silent as the shadows.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Let's face it - when myself, Gilbert and Caron step up, we play a lot better as a team.
ANTAWN JAMISON In the beginning it was all black and white.
MAUREEN O'HARA The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools ...
MARY RENAULT In the rough-and-tumble play of politics, dog-whistle messages are copiously dispatched over the hea...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE People are all over the place, buying for themselves and for pools.
DENNIS THORNTON Here
With my beer
I sit,
While golden moments flit:
Alas!
They pass
...
GEORGE ARNOLD Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I,...
GEORGE ARNOLD I think students have made their choices already. People will most likely continue to play basketbal...
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HLONIM They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW North Korean leader Kim Jong Un needs to be appreciated for remembering the white flag before a war....
APURVA GAGLANI When you think of all that goes into what you write you realize that only you see all that is needed...
BRENT M. JONES I think everybody is stepping up their play because they know the importance of these next 20 games....
ANTAWN JAMISON The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbo...
CHARLES R. BROWN Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind,
because they drink at streams w...
SIGMUND FREUD Let’s hope she’s like the others, who look only at the surface. Let’s hope she’d never think...
FRANNY BILLINGSLEY We're over our heads in vernal pools.
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White Ho...
VALERIE PLAME The Bush White House and its right-wing allies are responding to Cindy Sheehan and the military fami...
JOSEPH WILSON The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be? On the surface, relations b...
J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN There's nothing undignified about lying about all day and being waited on by servants, sipping b...
JEFFREY BERNARD A lot of new bats have a handle that bends on impact. I don't really like that. They don't seem to h...
ADAM KENNEDY Like birds, whose beauties languish half concealed,
Till, mounted on the wing, their glossy plumes...
EDWARD YOUNG I pride myself on catching the ball, and when that happens, it hurts. As soon as the play was over, ...
JASON WALLACE The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corres...
ADRIENNE RICH Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD VIEW FROM A HILL
I am not yet quite over it.
I am lying down on top of it.
Surv...
JOHN TOTTENHAM Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward.
ZENA WYNN As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be li...
ALEXANDER SKARSGARD But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving?
"Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro...
TRACY WARD For global disarmament and for a thriving economy throughout the world, all countries of the world w...
APURVA GAGLANI After years of pretending at emotions, he'd grown to appreciate their mystery, their chaos and rando...
KIM WHITE I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if...
CLARENCE THOMAS We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL I think people think we're all sipping martinis by the pool.
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JOHN B. KEANE She might not have read many books. But when she reads a book, she swallows the very words. If you o...
KAMAND KOJOURI I like our at-bats. We've had good at-bats against the good teams we've played, and we've had good a...
GLENN RUTENBAR Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun,
Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run:
...
SIR SAMUEL GARTH They could almost be like a second family to her. They took her under their wing, treating her like ...
ALICIA BICKLEY See, guys freak out. They hit critical mass and blast nuclear, white-hot anger out over the world li...
LAURA WIESS Why the spurt? Small cars powered by gas-sipping engines that start at $4,000.
MICHAEL DUNNE And over the pond are sailing
Two swans all white as snow;
Sweet voices mysteriously wailing
...
HEINRICH HEINE We are paid by the citizens of Missoula, and over and over again they said they don't like this.
ANN CROWLEY Our customers are excited about this line and enjoy trying them when they come into our stores. They...
CHERYL BERCZYK Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable...
J.D. SALINGER I mean, have you ever imagined
the ocean is alive, and needs to tell us something importa...
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AARON SORKIN Down comes rain drop, bubble follows;
On the house-top one by one
Flock the synagogue of swall...
THEOPHILE GAUTIER Lately, I barely drink anything until about 10 minutes before we play. Then I literally drink as muc...
CRAIG FINN Sometimes you get sick and tired of seeing the same things over and over for two weeks. I expect my ...
OZZIE GUILLEN Mothers yielding Bibles, contemplating smearing the blood of lamb chops over her doorway. Anything t...
ANTONIA PERDU The pools had been written onto the fields by the rain. The pools were a magic worked by the rain, j...
SUSANNA CLARKE We feel like the stadium is second-to-none, and we like playing on the surface. They have redone the...
BRAD DAVIS We did a nice job on the wing getting the ball inside. I thought the play of our wing players was ve...
DICK STEELE Everybody is in office pools. The games are on until I leave. You can't reach clients. You can't rea...
GRAHAM ATKINSON Through space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; through thought I comprehend...
BLAISE PASCAL The fact is that the Democratic Party in modern times has always had a conservative wing, one freque...
RICK PERLSTEIN Its left wing seemed to hit the ground and the plane flipped over.
LAURA WHITE Sometimes it can be as brutally overwhelming as a tidal wave flooding every orifice, the suffocation...
MOONSHINE NOIRE The fish find food and shelter in these flooded backwaters then they move back into the streams as w...
GUILLERMO GIANNICO This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
JOHN WYCLIFFE They don't make mistakes. They don't turn the football over. We turned the football over on the firs...
MARK NARDONE There was lots of good stuff. They're a much more seasoned team. But I'm happy with our play so far....
LAURA PATINELLA The woman turns away; one wing blackens like an onyx gem while the other glows white like a bright s...
LAURA KREITZER I am working on a new book about a boa constrictor and a litter of hyenas. The boa constrictor swall...
E.B. WHITE They have a good series, so we'll stick with that route. She seems to have worked over the track ver...
BRET CALHOUN The reformocons court right-wing censure simply by acknowledging that the middle class is under pres...
GEORGE PACKER By 2012, Dan Gilbert was well over his LeBron James-abandonment hissy fit. He opened Cleveland's...
JEANNE MARIE LASKAS Obviously, they've got Jason Kidd, who opens up the court so much, Vince Carter on one wing and Rich...
JERMAINE O'NEAL We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The sheph...
ALLAN BLOOM Pools, that are used by people as they are meant to be used, are not making them (casinos) any money...
JOE ASHER The video shows white tipped with black, exactly what we reproduced with a model ivory-billed wing.
JOHN FITZPATRICK Ideas lose themselves as quickly as quail, and one must wing them the minute they rise out of the gr...
THOMAS F. KENNEDY I want to win, and my teammates, they play hard. We're trying our best. We're bunting the ball. We'r...
BRUCE CHEN The night was white-blind with fog, and Kate staggered over every stone and stumbled in every puddle...
ERIN BOW Always behave like a duck- keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil undernea...
JACOB BRAUDE Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underne...
JACOB BRAUDE Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underne...
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WALTER GILBERT I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious bac...
WALTER GILBERT Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.
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WALTER GILBERT Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.
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WALTER GILBERT The best project is one that asks a novel question.
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GILBERT HIGHET It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.
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but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have<...
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This rain.
The blues gone gray
And the browns gone gray
An...
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ELIZABETH GILBERT Instructions for freedom":
1. Life's metaphors are God's instructions.
2. You have just cl...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is be...
ELIZABETH GILBERT At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.
ELIZABETH GILBERT One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
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ELIZABETH GILBERT I was doing something I'd never done before. And what will I be able to do tomorrow that I cannot ye...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Fear--who cares?
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ELIZABETH GILBERT Some days are meant to be counted, others are meant to be weighed.
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ELIZABETH GILBERT I crossed the street to walk in the sunshine.
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ELIZABETH GILBERT Operation Self-Esteem--Day Fucking One.
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ELIZABETH GILBERT It all goes away. Eventually, everything goes away.
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ELIZABETH GILBERT Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.
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ELIZABETH GILBERT I think I deserve something beautiful.
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ELIZABETH GILBERT Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.
ELIZABETH GILBERT To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced
life.
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ELIZABETH GILBERT I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay wit...
ELIZABETH GILBERT This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.
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GILBERT HIGHET If we can't figure something out in three weeks, we probably shouldn't bother.
STEVEN GILBERT Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind.
GILBERT SELDES How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.
JACK GILBERT The mechanics of industry is easy. The real engine is the people : Their motivation and direction.
KEN GILBERT All great ideas are controversial, or have been at one time.
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GILBERT MURRAY When the archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the...
GILBERT ARLAND The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way benea...
GILBERT ADAIR Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideolo...
GILBERT ADAIR If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my vo...
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ELIZABETH GILBERT My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complic...
MELISSA GILBERT I am far more of a loner than people would imagine. But I am the most gregarious and socially intera...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I always wish the hotels were like they are in movies and TV shows, where if you're in Paris, ri...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED Our entire franchise has done everything in its power to put all of our players and its coaching sta...
DAN GILBERT When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept in...
ELIZABETH GILBERT It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Pe...
ELIZABETH GILBERT It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field c...
WALTER GILBERT A good teacher is a determined person.
GILBERT HIGHET In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I alm...
DAN GILBERT Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. L...
ELIZABETH GILBERT We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.
GILBERT BAKER If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a l...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The rainbow is a part of nature, and you have to be in the right place to see it. It's beautiful...
GILBERT BAKER I've never understood people who say they're not a practicing Jew. You never hear a black gu...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.
GILBERT PARKER A rainbow is something in the sky, so a rainbow flag fits.
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ELIZABETH GILBERT I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the...
DANIEL GILBERT Tomorrow is no man's gift.
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GILBERT GOTTFRIED I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument a...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Ten thousand men possess ten thousand hopes. A few bear fruit in happiness; the others go awry. But ...
GILBERT MURRAY Some of the Park City kids said it was the best pipe of the Intermountain series.
ANDREW GILBERT He had the run of his life. Smooth and big, with landings that were on the money.
ANDREW GILBERT She's been killing it all season and is only getting better.
ANDREW GILBERT I first met William McInnes in 1986.
ANDREW GILBERT I understand being less sexy than Osama bin Laden, but not less sexy than Carrot Top. That, I find o...
GILBERT GOTTFRIED A lot of people can be cheerleaders for songs and go, 'Oh, that's great,' and they don...
BRANTLEY GILBERT What time has ever been a simple time for those who are living it?
ELIZABETH GILBERT In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry i...
ELIZABETH GILBERT In the end, it seems to me that forgiveness may be the only realistic antidote we are offered in lov...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I do forget sometimes how much it means for certain men—for certain people—to be able to provide...
ELIZABETH GILBERT My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curi...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Because I know something that you don't know. I know that this is the worst experience of your life,...
ELIZABETH GILBERT As I got older, I discovered that nothing within me cried out for a baby. My womb did not seem to ha...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT For if there is one thing I have learned over the years about men, it is that feelings of powerlessn...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Marriage becomes hard work once you have poured the entirety of your life’s expectations for happi...
ELIZABETH GILBERT By unnerving definition, anything that the heart has chosen for its own mysterious reasons it can al...
ELIZABETH GILBERT With each reunion (we) had to learn each other all over again. There was always that nervous moment ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relatio...
ELIZABETH GILBERT There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice te...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuing...
ELIZABETH GILBERT I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes ...
ELIZABETH GILBERT My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Infatuation is not quite the same thing as love; it's more like love's shady second cousin who's alw...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)
ELIZABETH GILBERT When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don...
ELIZABETH GILBERT A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?
ELIZABETH GILBERT Real, sane, mature love—the kind that pays the mortgage year after year and picks up the kids afte...
ELIZABETH GILBERT The problem, simply put, is that we cannot choose everything simultaneously. So we live in danger of...
ELIZABETH GILBERT You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on thei...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.
ELIZABETH GILBERT But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy g...
ELIZABETH GILBERT We were thrilled to find this sort of effect and are very interested in investigating it further.
AUBREY GILBERT Participants responded more quickly when the color of the odd-man-out had a different name than the ...
AUBREY GILBERT Critically, the color of this odd-man-out had either the same name as the other squares-for example,...
AUBREY GILBERT When this secondary task was of a linguistic nature, the differences in response times for stimuli i...
AUBREY GILBERT We were thrilled to find this sort of effect and are very interested in investigating it further. Th...
AUBREY GILBERT