Diaphanous In A Sentence Quotes & Sayings

In 'Me Before You,' the two characters popped into my head fully formed, which is really strange and unusual. Other books, I sit on them for two or three months. I have a whole routine: I buy a nice book; I hand-write all their characteristics. I put them through little tests just to see how they would react to things. — Jojo Moyes

All the world's religions speak the same language, they simply use different words. — Matthew Clark

When I saw snooty guy, I missed my childhood. — Toba Beta

There was someone there and they had been there. There was no one there. There was someone there and they had been there and they had not left but there was no one there. — Cormac McCarthy

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches,' but in fact, the Rosses were never raggedy. — Diana Ross

Each profession, intellectual or manual, deserves consideration, whether it requires painful physical effort or manual dexterity, wide knowledge or or the patience of an ant. — Mariama Ba

I owe all my knowledge to the German inventor, Johannes Gutenberg! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I think I liked you better when you were a raging idiot. — Alethea Kontis

Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm. — James Fallows

And I can tell by the way you're searching
For something you can't even name
That you haven't been able to come to the table
Simply glad that you came
And when you feel like this try to imagine
That we're all like frail boats on the sea
Just scanning the night for that great guiding light
Announcing the Jubilee — Mary Chapin Carpenter

I've never understood how so many barely literate people read the Bible so much. It's hard. In the same way it surprises me that uneducated seamstresses all over the world can figure out how to put in sleeves and zippers. — Lucia Berlin

Instead of practicing philoxenos, which means loving the stranger, we find many times that the church is xenophobic. We forget that Jesus, whom we claim to follow, was the ultimate lover of otherness in people. Even differences in religion didn't freak Jesus out when it came to loving people. — Holly Sprink