Etiolated Quotes & Sayings

Every one's got their own ways of working. I know that. I give my inspectors a free hand always. Every one's got to find out for themselves what method suits them best. — Agatha Christie

At my shows you have time to relax, time to just enjoy something really dumb, time to laugh at something that's weird or unexpected and time to think. There's all sorts of things happening and it's great being able to go any way I choose at any given moment. — Reggie Watts

The whole point of a spectacular tag is not the artwork; it's the mystery of how it was done. — Roland Smith

I miss America because it's where I grew up. I miss the size of the roads, the size of cars, the malls, the choices of radio. — Suzi Quatro

The big rippled sheets of glass were taken out of their sacking and lowered from the back of the wagon, and for a few giddy moments a troupe of rubbery dwarves and etiolated giants shimmied and shivered in those depthless caskets. of light. — John Banville

If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a saloon, finding an etiolated Henry James slumped at the bar in a haze of indecision, and shooting him dead. — Adam Haslett

... I suddenly discerned at my feet, crouching among the rocks for protection against the heat, the marine goddesses for whom Elstir had lain in wait and whom he had surprised there, beneath the dark glaze as lovely as Leonardo would have painted, the marvelous Shadows, sheltering furtively, nimble and silent, ready at the first glimmer of light to slip behind the stone, to hide in a cranny, and prompt, once the menacing ray had passed, to return to the rock or the seaweed over whose torpid slumbers they seemed to be keeping vigil, beneath the sun that crumbled the cliffs and the etiolated ocean, motionless lightfoot guardians darkening the water's surface with their viscous bodies and the attentive gaze of their deep blue eyes. — Marcel Proust

A 'goto' in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy. — Larry Wall

I hardly ever go into the studio with a work complete in my head. It emerges from communal activity. — Brian Eno

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay. — Oscar Wilde

Creation, like vengeance, is God's. It is dangerous when man tampers with it. — Marjorie Benton Cooke

Education's goal is to impart knowledge, and knowledge is not only heretical, but unpredictable and often uncomfortable. — Azar Nafisi

That's the ego talking. But it's not the real you. You are a good and wonderful person. You are kind. You have a compassionate nature. — Gelek Rimpoche

The least Charles could have done,' Constance said, considering seriously, 'was shoot himself through the head in the driveway. — Shirley Jackson

The past has no wholeness, it has been etiolated by revised explanations of it, trampled over by hindsight - all their lives. — Nadine Gordimer