Clammy Forehead Quotes & Sayings

The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing pigeon. — Rose Macaulay

I am past hunger, past vanity, past caring. — Audrey Niffenegger

People described me then as a "socialite," a label I loathe. It cast me in a lurid and ridiculous light, implying a life of privileged frivolity where everyone fits around from one party to the next wearing calculated clothes and expensive smiles — Jane Stanton Hitchcock

Well, what was it to be a thief? He met the question at last, face to face, wiping the clammy drops of sweat from his forehead. God made this money - the fresh air, too - for his children's use. He never made the difference between poor and rich. — Rebecca Harding Davis

Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims. — Elisabeth Elliot

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it. — George Bernard Shaw

I've seen golems. They don't behave like a real person. — Diana Wynne Jones

All ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again. — E. E. Cummings

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. — Arnold Bennett