Unname Quotes & Sayings

Pull it open, the hinges grinding, and then a blast — Blake Crouch

The Hercules' was a monumental undertaking. It is the largest aircraft ever built ... I put the sweat of my life into this thing. — Howard Hughes

A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony. — George Bernard Shaw

A perpetual scandal: honoring the dead. — Marty Rubin

... but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives. — Homer

The work to me is everything, and I would throw every rule overboard and send them to the bottom of the sea tomorrow, if I felt there were a more excellent way. — Thomas John Barnardo

None were left now to unname, and yet how close I felt to them when I saw one of them swim or fly or trot or crawl across my way or over my skin, or stalk me in the night, or go along beside me for a while in the day. They seemed far closer than when their names had stood between myself and them like a clear barrier: so close that my fear of them and their fear of me became one same fear. And the attraction that many of us felt, the desire to feel or rub or caress one another's scales or skin or feathers or fur, taste one another's blood or flesh, keep one another warm, that attraction was now all one with the fear, and the hunter could not be told from the hunted, nor the eater from the food. — Ursula K. Le Guin

PERFECTION, OF COURSE, is a cruel god. It requires the kind of absolute devotion and daily sacrifice that is the sworn enemy of personal emotion and intimacy with others, even - and maybe especially - one's loyal ladywife. — James Dodson

Provence is a country to which I am always returning, next week, next year, any day now, as soon as I can get on a train. — Elizabeth David