It is with the approach of winter that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence. — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
His sumptuous tents, and those of his satraps, afforded an immense booty to the conqueror; and an incident is mentioned which proves… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence. — James Ensor Copy Share Image
If pale beans bubble for you in a red earthenware pot, you can often decline the dinners of sumptuous hosts. — Martial Copy Share Image
There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
People who want to live like Olympian gods must have slaves whom they throw into their fishponds and gladiators who fight during… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
If you follow the suburban fashion in building a sumptuous- looking house for a little money, it will appear to all eyes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Thus did I keep my person fresh and new, My presence, like a robe pontifical, Ne'er seen but wondered at, and so… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant. Indeed, the Macintosh is counterreformist and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Films about the English monarchy, they tend to have a lavishness, sumptuous imagery, it's all very posh and rich. — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
Consider paint a film of light reflecting/absorbing material, and a colored paint a material which gives a particular, characteristic transmission of light… — Jo Baer Copy Share Image
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries, we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Although love dwells in gorgeous palaces, and sumptuous apartments, more willingly than in miserable and desolate cottages, it cannot be denied but… — Giovanni Boccaccio Copy Share Image
I had longed to be a butterfly, and I was one at last. I attended private parties in sumptuous evening dress, simpered… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Love to me is - the final lines in Dante's Paradiso, when he says, "The love that moves the Sun and all… — Jean Houston Copy Share Image
Many an American jazz musician has been beguiled by the lush melodies and sumptuous rhythms of Brazilian music, but Peter Sprague has… — Andrew S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
To portray America over the past twenty years or so, I would think immediately of football, probably the Super Bowl in its… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end… — John W. Gardner Copy Share Image
If America is a melting pot, then to me India is a thali--a selection of sumptuous dishes in different bowls. Each tastes… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
The white blouse can be light and floating, impeccable and austere, sumptuous and all-enveloping, tight and close-fitting. It rises up to frame… — Gianfranco Ferre Copy Share Image
Dave Rocha is a mature and eminently musical improviser. His sumptuous tone and cafefully chosen notes embody real musical thought. His performance… — Frank Hanny Copy Share Image
FBI Girl is a gorgeous, sumptuous book. Conlon-McIvor takes a subject (herself and her family) that might have sunk in other hands,… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
