Books Quote by Alex St. Clair Download Open image ““Books are Lighthouses erected in the sea of time." Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest”” — Alex St. Clair ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Shakespeare Time
It's hard to think that say Shakespeare could have written "The Tempest" when he was young. It seems to be reflective work or retrospective… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
Character is constructed amidst the tempests of the World — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Shakespeare was an intellectual ocean, whose waves touched all the shores of thought; within which were all the tides and waves of destiny and will; over which swept all the storms of fate, ambition and revenge; upon which fell the gloom and darkness of despair and death and all the sunlight of content and love, and within which was the… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share
“At the happy ending of the Tempest, Prospero brings the kind back togeter with his son, and finds Miranda's true love and punishes the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[Sweet it is during a tempest when the gales lash the waves to watch from the shore another man’s great striving.]3” — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“What's the use trying to read Shakespeare, especially in one of those little paper editions whose pages get ruffled, or stuck together with sea-water?” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Whence, it may be asked, had come that plaything of the tempest? From what part of the world did it rise? It surely could… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
The tempest was terrible and separated me from my [other] vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with nothing to… — Christopher Columbus Copy Share Image
“In the broad light of day, I could not give his tale nearly so much credence as I had granted it when sitting rapt… — Lyndsay Faye Copy Share Image
“If its danger you seek, come on over. I covet tranquility but beget the tempest storm.” — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
William Shakespeare once said: 'There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted all… — Haley James Scott Copy Share Image
“Taken from the play, "Mrs. Keelers Tempest", "The ills of man are many roaring on and on, forever shall this tempest swell" Taken from… — Mark DiBenrardo Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image