In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably,… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
The wood nymph instructors left me in the dust. They told me not to worry about it. They'd had centuries of practice… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Found out that the hobbies of Those Best Forgotten include long walks on the beach and sacrificing nymphs on altars. I mean,… — Kresley Cole Copy Share Image
O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne? Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The echo is, to some extent, an original sound, and therein is the magic and charm of it. It is not merely… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
And then he danced,-all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;-he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
...it seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I wnt about with all these fantastic… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot… — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips, and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Come boy, and pour for me a cup Of old Falernian. Fill it up With wine, strong, sparkling, bright, and clear; Our… — Horace Copy Share Image
The academic teaching on beauty is false. We have been misled, but so completely misled that we can no longer find so… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
In my Pantheon, Pan still reigns in his pristine glory, with his ruddy face, his flowing beard, and his shaggy body, his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Now it’s high watermark and floodtide in the heart and time to go. The sea-nymphs in the spray will be the chorus… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
So, when I say 'match the hatch', if the fish are taking the nymph, and you're actually producing a replica of a… — Rex Hunt Copy Share Image
You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Brides, nymphs were called, but that is not really how the world saw us. We were an endless feast laid out upon… — Circe Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“Yes!" Narissus unslung his bow and grabbed an arrow from his dusty quiver. "The first one who get that bronze, I will… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
And the rose like a nymph to the bath addrest, Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast, Till, fold after fold,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Where'er ye sojourn, and whatever names Ye are or shall be called; fairies, or sylphs, Nymphs of the wood or mountain, flood… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
Oh my god, I am so awesome!" Leo bellowed. "So awesome!" Echo yelled back. "He is funny," a nymph ventured. "And cute,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Leo took out a pen and autographed the arm of one of the nymphs. “Narcissus is a loser! He’s so weak, he… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
“The nymphs wafted around me. Their smothered laughter drifted down the halls. At least, I told myself, it was not their brothers,… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“When he wasn’t busy chasing unseen mice around the academy, Ion spent hours in the Borean Study, searching through dusty books for… — Nikolas Lee Copy Share Image
Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The people of your world became so stupid and rude that my companions and I no longer enjoyed teaching them. You must… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
Beauties, when disposed to sleep, Should from the eye of keen inspector keep: The lovely nymph who would her swain surprise, May… — George Crabbe Copy Share Image
I swore I would never get involved in my dad's life. But then he started blowing it. So I had to get… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
![“What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot himself that I found [back] in the museum of Naples - in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs.” quote by Pierre-Auguste Renoir](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/506/pierre-auguste-renoir-7064_bits_what-i-like-so-much-about-corot-is-that_1016895.png)
