Give Me Quotes (page 38)

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• bored
• giving
• solitude

A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return. Henry David Thoreau

• giving
• encouraging
• heart

It is terrible and unbearable to an artist,' he said, 'to be encouraged to do, to be applauded for doing his second best.' He said: 'Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost! Isak Dinesen

• tea
• giving
• you me

My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs. Charles Dickens

• happy
• giving
• end

There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle. And a very happy start. Shel Silverstein

• life
• giving
• bed

Life is always either a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. Edith Wharton

• giving
• giving directions
• directing

I smell your cigar. Delicious! Give me one directly. Wilkie Collins

• giving
• eating
• eat

Hey!' Bruno called out 'Give me the rest of that banana I was eating. Roald Dahl

• uncle
• shadow
• aunt

So you're an angel, fine, that's terrific. Now give me back my shadows. (Uncle Chaim and Aunt Rifke and the Angel) Peter S. Beagle

• giving
• dream
• sometimes

Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream. Suzanne Collins

• her eyes
• world
• kiss

Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead. --I shall feel it."She dropped her head again on Marius' knees, and her eyelids closed. He thought the poor soul had departed. Eponine remained motionless. All at once, at the very moment when Marius fancied her asleep forever, she slowly opened her eyes in which appeared the sombre profundity of death, and said to him in a tone whose sweetness seemed already to proceed from another world:--"And by the way, Monsieur Marius, I believe that... Victor Hugo

• science
• giving
• literature

I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them. Samuel Butler

• self
• value
• doubt

Mom is losing, no doubt, because our vegetables have come to lack two features of interest: nutrition and flavor. Storage and transport take predictable tolls on the volatile plant compounds that subtly add up to taste and food value. Breeding to increase shelf life also has tended to decrease palatability. Bizarre as it seems, we've accepted a tradeoff that amounts to: "Give me every vegetable in every season, even if it tastes like a cardboard picture of its former self. Barbara Kingsolver

• giving
• fitness
• mother to be

Maybe it's just not the right time for us to be married. I don't want to be a bounty hunter for the rest of my life, but I certainly don't want to be a housewife right now. And I really don't want to be married to someone who gives me ultimatums. And maybe Joe needs to examine what he wants from a wife. He was raised in a traditional Italian household with a stay-at-home mother and domineering father. If he wants a wife who will fit into that mold, I'm not for him. I might be a... Janet Evanovich

• giving
• grief
• wonderful

But please, please - won't you - can't you give me something that will cure Mother?' Up till then he had been looking at the Lion's great feet and the huge claws on them; now, in his despair, he looked up at its face. What he saw surprised him as much as anything in his whole life. For the tawny face was bent down near his own and (wonder of wonders) great shining tears stood in the Lion's eyes. They were such big, bright tears compared with Digory's own that for a moment he felt as if the... C. S. Lewis

• love
• food
• die

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. William Shakespeare