Rhomboidal Shape Quotes & Sayings

The experts are right, he thought. Venice is sinking. The whole city is slowly dying. One day the tourists will travel here by boat to peer down into the waters, and they will see pillars and columns and marble far, far beneath them, slime and mud uncovering for brief moments a lost underworld of stone. Their heels made a ringing sound on the pavement and the rain splashed from the gutterings above. A fine ending to an evening that had started with brave hope, with innocence. ("Don't Look Now") — Daphne Du Maurier

You cannot go into the womb to form the child; it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself. — Gertrude Stein

I was able to take that first step to freedom. — Catherine Jane Fisher

In 1891, Princess Louisa of Tuscany married Prince Fredrick Augustus, the heir to to the Saxon throne. The Prince won Louisa over with his gentle manner and striking blond good looks. Yet years later, disenchanted, she wrote in her memoirs, 'Although every princess doubtless at some time dreams an Ideal Prince Charming, she rarely meets him, and she usually marries some one quite different from the hero of her girlhood's dreams. — Eleanor Herman

My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck. — Naveen Jain

Goddamn it," Jace shouted over the noise. "I hate it when Simon is right. — Cassandra Clare

Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes — Joseph Joubert

Even the best of friends need time apart. — Mark Heath

As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men. By every part of our nature we clasp things above us, one after another, not for the sake of remaining where we take hold, but that we may go higher. — Henry Ward Beecher

Do not be deceived by this face for my brain remains magnificent. ---- Aunt Berna — Jenny Ackland

But it seems clear to me that on some level, spirits choose their parents, because these potential parents possess certain traits and values that the soon-to-be child needs to assimilate during his or her lifetime. — Anthony Kiedis

[ ... ] no carrot would be permitted in a soup that had not first assumed a rhomboidal or trapezoidal shape. — Ivan Turgenev

There's always a little wiggle room," he'd told Simon, "a little space to figure these things out yourself." He'd taught Simon to ask questions, to challenge authority, to understand and believe in rules before he followed them. There was a noble Jewish heritage of arguing, his father liked to say, even when it came to arguing with God. — Cassandra Clare