Time Quote by Ayn Rand

“A waiter came swiftly along the room, and then stopped dead. His stoppage was as silent as his tread; but all those vague and…

— G.K. Chesterton

“in the high, old tottering voice that seemed to have been tuned and broken at the capstan bars. Then he rapped on the door…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“His colleagues at the Bar called him Filth, but not out of irony. It was because he was considered to be the source of…

— Jane Gardam

“He was immaculately dressed, without trying. He dressed that way by nature - which meant that he had money - and I loved money.…

— Tarryn Fisher

“He demanded I tell him all I knew. I refused. He threatened me. Still, I refused. He became irate. He screamed. He spat. He…

— John Stephens

“That was the most remarkable trait in his demeanour. He was crisp, fresh, cheerful, affable, bland; but so surprisingly innocent. Bar sidled up”

— Charles Dickens

“The old man had been stoking and sipping at his pipe for the last fifteen minutes as they awaited the prisoner. The smoke of…

— Michael Chabon

“I formed the impression that nature had given him little patience for fools, while society had cruelly decreed that he spend a great deal…

— Andrew Killeen

“He was a master in the art of spreading boredom and playing the clumsy fool-though never so egregiously that people might enjoy making fun…

— Patrick Süskind

“He was sometimes stern but more often kindly---just according to his lights, but he saw the world in simple shades of black and white,…

— John Christopher

“It was not a reckless manner, the manner in which he said these words aloud under the fast-sailing clouds, nor was it more expressive…

— Charles Dickens

“He had had a habit throughout the twenty-seven years of making a narrow remark which, like a plumber’s snake, could work its way through…

— Grace Paley