Spectacles In The Drawer Quotes & Sayings

There's no sense in whipping a tired horse, because he'll quit on you. More horses are whipped out of the money than into it. — Eddie Arcaro

He had our Jessa, and blood would rain across the world until we got her back. — Jaymin Eve

I hate the world. Everything comes into it so clean and goes out so dirty. (from COVER CHARGE - currently not listed) — Cornell Woolrich

TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person. — Daniel Quinn

We all have scars, Wharick. Mine happen to be on the the outside, Kathel answered but knew what he said wasn't entirely true. He bore scars on the inside as well. — Madison Thorne Grey

Books have been thought of as windows to another world of imagination — Stephenie Meyer

Glorious is the tumult of the waves that crash against a vessel, preparing it for the seas of life. — Don Williams

Some Aspergirls are happy alone and start to wonder if there's something wrong with them when society puts pressure on and asks "Aren't you lonely?" It's nobody's business what you do, and if you are happy being alone, you are not flawed, you are lucky. — Rudy Simone

The price of our non-discipleshi p is high for those without Christ. — David Platt

The woman was putting her purse in the drawer and settling down behind the desk, and I realized I had never seen her before in my life. Her face was as wrinkled as one of those forgotten apples you sometimes find in the pocket of last year's winter jacket.
Yes? she said, peering over her spectacles. They teach them to do that at the Royal Academy of Library Science. — Alan Bradley

But the secrets of such a book are not perpetual. Once they are known, they become relegated to a lesser sphere, which is that of the knower. Having lost the prestige they once enjoyed, these former secrets now function as tools in the excavation of still deeper ones which, in turn, will suffer the same corrosive fate. And this is the fate of all the secrets of the universe. Eventually the seeker of a recondite knowledge may conclude - either through insight or sheer exhaustion - that this ruthless process is never-ending, that the mortification of one mystery after another has no terminus beyond that of the seeker's own extinction. And how many still remain susceptible to the search? How many pursue it to the end of their days with undying hope of some ultimate revelation? Better not to think in precise terms just how few the faithful are. — Thomas Ligotti

From that, I became very anxious to produce something of my own. — Jackie Cooper

The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love. — Thomas Carlyle