Vignettes Examples Quotes & Sayings

Imagination is glow of thoughts by supernatural force. — Lailah Gifty Akita

There were times when he felt as if he were being literally torn in two. Times when he raged at the injustice of what was happening to him, times when he was overwhelmed with guilt. There was no right and wrong anymore, which had been one of clear-cut lines for so long, was now so blurred that he was careening around like a compass struggling to find true north. — Marguerite Kaye

I wanted Sundays in wintry colours, the smell of soup drifting from the kitchen. I wanted our lives to be like other people's. I wanted everyone to have their place at the table, their time for the bathroom, their part in the domestic routine, for there be nothing to do by let time drift by. — Delphine De Vigan

With too little data, you won't be able to make any conclusions that you trust. With loads of data you will find relationships that aren't real ... Big data isn't about bits, it's about talent. — Douglas Merrill

I have never pretended to be a great House of Commons man, but I pay the House the greatest compliment I can by saying that, from first to last, I never stopped fearing it. — Tony Blair

There are many farm handouts; but let's call them what they really are: a form of legalized theft. Essentially, a congressman tells his farm constituency, "Vote for me. I'll use my office to take another American's money and give it to you." — Walter E. Williams

Our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom. And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice. — Barack Obama

I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life. — Nick Vujicic

Keep working at whatever you do. I don't care if you don't see results right then, they will come sooner or later. And it don't even necessarily have to be in music. Anything you do, with hard work, it's gonna always pay off. — Short Dawg

Evolution, cell biology, biochemistry, and developmental biology have made extraordinary progress in the last hundred years - much of it since I was weaned on schoolboy biology in the 1930s. Most striking of all is the sudden eruption of molecular biology starting in the 1950s. — John Tyler Bonner

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite. — Novalis

Oh," said the Duke of Wellington, not much interested, "they are still complaining about that, are they? — Susanna Clarke

The point of painting is not really deception or imitation. — A.S. Byatt