Images Herman Melville Quotes & Sayings

How did the infant sent away from his family grow up to redefine the whole concept of family and tribe into something far larger: the umma, the people or the community of Islam? — Lesley Hazleton

A hero can be fool, he's still a hero. — Joyce Carol Oates

I always liked the Van Gogh story because I was terribly involved in that. — Vincente Minnelli

Love sees ten million fathoms down, till dazzled by the floor of pearls. The eye is Love's own magic glass, where all things that are not of earth, glide in supernatural light. There are not so many fishes in the sea, as there are sweet images in lovers' eyes. In those miraculous translucencies swim the strange eye-fish with wings, that sometimes leap out, instinct with joy; moist fish-wings wet the lover's cheek. Love's eyes are holy things; therein the mysteries of life are lodged; looking in each other's eyes, lovers see the ultimate secret of the worlds; and with thrills eternally untranslatable, feel that Love is god of all. Man or woman who has never loved, nor once looked deep down into their own lover's eyes, they know not the sweetest and the loftiest religion of this earth. Love is both Creator's and Saviour's gospel to mankind; a volume bound in rose-leaves, clasped with violets, and by the beaks of humming-birds printed with peach-juice on the leaves of lilies. — Herman Melville

Two people at a cocktail party. One turns to the other and says: "I'm writing a novel." The other replies, "Neither am I. — Private Eye

Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life. — Herman Melville

A ballsy killer with the body of a goddess and the mouth of a sailor - in his eyes, that was perfection. — Bethany K. Lovell

Order me to stay, he wanted to say, and couldn't. — C.S. Pacat

I feel like I'm still learning a lot with writing lyrics. In the beginning, like the first record, I wasn't so aware. — Yukimi Nagano

I really trust you, don't I? — Toba Beta

To shoot a gun proficiently, including speed shooting, is much less of a skill than typing. — Bernhard Goetz

Environmental groups are not completely against dams. We approve of appropriate development. — Ma Jun

He dared not love again and lose. That loss was too great, that pain too keen. — William Peter Blatty

You have to have someone in your life you care about more than yourself. — Helena Newbury

Style is something each of us already has, all we need to do is find it. — Diane Von Furstenberg

If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame. — Elizabeth Lesser

Above him, the interweaving branches seemed to split the sky in a million little pieces — John Green