Warmths Quotes & Sayings

Dickens had more energy than anyone in the world, and he expected his sons to be like him, and they couldn't be. — Claire Tomalin

One day, she explained, he'd pass by the window and, given the correct lighting, moment, and identical gesture, his shadow would match, for an instant, the painted one. His feet tingled as he stood uneasily at the edge of the flat, dark shape. 'It's only a matter of time,' she said. — Philip Graham

This was beautiful, this was us. — Vee Hoffman

The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil. — C.S. Lewis

These political passions are born of a hunger so deep that it touches on the spiritual. Or they were for me, and they still are. I want my life to be a battle cry, a war zone, an arrow pointed and loosed into the heart of domination: patriarchy, imperialism, industrialization, every system of power and sadism. If the martial imagery alienates you, I can rephrase it. I want my lifemy bodyto be the place where the earth is cherished not devoured, where the sadist is granted no quarter, where the violence stops. — Lierre Keith

A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes. — Russell Lynes

I think people of my generation became journalists - you know, right after the broadcast pioneer fathers - because we wanted to report the big stories. — Tom Brokaw

The day of her long interview with Tietjens, amongst the amassed beauties of Macmaster furnishings, she marked in the calendar of her mind as her great love scene. That had been two years ago; he had been going into the army. Now he was going out again. From that she knew what a love scene was. It passed without mention of the word 'love'; it passed in impulses; warmths; rigors of the skin. Yet with every word they had said to each other they had confessed their love; in that way, when you listen to the nightingale you hear the expressed craving of your lover beating upon your heart. — Ford Madox Ford

I hate, for example, whenever you hear someone say, 'You have work at being a couple.' — Vanessa Paradis

A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird? — Edward Richards

All I want to do is be onstage. A performer needs to perform. — David Hasselhoff

No one should ever compromise the dignity of another human being. — Sarah Addison Allen

To pay flattery their country will bleed. — Taliesin

That took the view that every misbehavior, every cruelty perpetuated by one kid on another should be let slide in the name of letting kids be kids? (Let them be kids, really let them, and you will end up with a tribe of bulimic eugenicists with huge amounts of credit card debt.) — Karl Taro Greenfeld