Unreading Quotes & Sayings

While Cabinets of Curiosities were intended to be microcosms of the world, and to symbolise a ruler's all-powerful control of his realm, Rudolf's came to mean much more than that. It become his refuge from personal and political turmoil, a private universe he could control. — Joanne Owen

If I was your mirror, you would look for me more, than you do me. — Anthony Liccione

When you talk about me having a favorite singer, it's Celine. She is not only one of the most amazing singers, but she is just an amazing person. — Tessanne Chin

I've never had my brows done - I tweeze them myself. I used to watch my mom pluck her brows, that's how I learned. — Emmy Rossum

Anyone who looks for life can find it ... and they don't need to photograph ashcans. The average camera fan reminds me of Pollyanna, with a lollypop in one hand and a camera in the other. You can't be a Nice Nelly and take news pictures. — Weegee

hidden from her. Still, the air is lighted and bright. — Kristin Hannah

On the death of his brothers, my dad lied about his age and joined the army in 1918. He was in the trenches long enough to be gassed and contract the early stages of tuberculosis from which he would eventually die just before my birth. — Michael Foreman

a line from Tolkien materializing in my head, one does not simply walk into Mordor. We — Ransom Riggs

There is no river in the world to be compared for majesty and the witchery of association, to the Thames; it impresses even the unreading and unimaginative watcher with a solemnity which he cannot account for, as it rolls under his feet and swirls past the buttresses of its many bridges; he may think, as he experiences the unusual effect, that it is the multiplicity of buildings which line its banks, or the crowd of sea-craft which floats upon its surface, or its own extensive spread. In reality he feels, although he cannot explain it, the countless memories which hang for ever like a spiritual fog over its rushing current.
("The Phantom Model") — Hume Nisbet

Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth. — William Wordsworth

I think that having comedy where people talk the way they really talk, when you talk with your friends and whatever, it's really, it's important. Or else you're making stuff that's a little bit watered down and irrelevant. — Seth Gordon

The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition! — John Owen