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Thing Quotes (page 721)

But beauty is not the only thing that makes a woman attractive; indeed, great beauty is often somewhat chilling: you admire, but are not moved. W. Somerset Maugham
His mother is dead, yet she has never not been, in theory, at his shoulder. He wants her not to have known and suffered or even witnessed all the things that followed her death. Including all this now. But that would be like wishing her dead. Merely dead. Graham Swift
He drove into the spewing smoke of acres of burning truck tires and the planes descended and the transit cranes stood in rows at the marine terminal and he saw billboards for Hertz and Avis and Chevy Blazer, for Marlboro, Continental and Goodyear, and he realized that all the things around him, the planes taking off and landing, the streaking cars, the tires on the cars, the cigarettes that the drivers of the cars were dousing in their ashtrays--all these were on the billboards around him,... Don DeLillo
Aaron Sorkin quote: "Don't tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing."
Don't tempt the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing. Aaron Sorkin
No man can have a right to impose an unchosen obligation , an unrewarded duty or an involuntary servitude on another man. There can be no such thing as " the right to enslave . Ayn Rand
The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them. Rachel Maddow
...-and the only thing that kept me going was stories. Stories are hope. They take you out of yourself for a bit, and when you get dropped back in, you're different- you're stronger, you've seen more, you've felt more. Stories are like spiritual currency.(An Extra Smidgen of Eternity by Robert Rodi) Neil Gaiman
She was a maiden of rarest beauty, and not more lovely than full of glee. And evil was the hour when she saw, and loved, and wedded the painter. He, passionate, studious, austere, and having already a bride in his Art; she a maiden of rarest beauty, and not more lovely than full of glee; all light and smiles, and frolicsome as the young fawn; loving and cherishing all things; hating only the Art which was her rival; Edgar Allan Poe
Aiden Wilson Tozer quote: "What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most..."
What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us. Aiden Wilson Tozer
Michael Crichton quote: "ugly little things aren't the?"
ugly little things aren't the? Michael Crichton
Afterwards, he just sat, happy to live in the past. The drink made past happy things contemporary with the present, as if they were still going on, contemporary even with the future as if they were about to happen again. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Julian Barnes quote: "I suppose the truth is that, yes, I'm not odd enough not to..."
I suppose the truth is that, yes, I'm not odd enough not to have done the things I've ended up doing with my life. Julian Barnes
Of course some of us had some geography in school and had studied maps, but a school map is a terribly uncommunicative thing. Robertson Davies
Everything is strange. Things are huge and very small. The stalks of flowers are thick as oak trees. Leaves are high as the domes of vast cathedrals. We are giants, lying here, who can make forests quiver. Virginia Woolf
Harold Pinter quote: "There are some things one remembers even though they may never..."
There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened. Harold Pinter

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