Quote by Boris Pasternak Download Open image ““She has more names than petticoats.”” — Boris Pasternak ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Pet names are a persistent remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated.” — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“What the hell was up with her nicknames anyway? Sunshine. Daisy. Candy. All bright, sweet things. She should insist on being called Spider or… — Cherrie Lynn Copy Share Image
“Issie couldn’t believe it. “She makes She Who Must Not Be Named look like Mary Poppins!” — Stacy Gregg Copy Share Image
“Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Cats never liked to admit to names. Being named might lead to being held responsible for something.” — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
“The Goddess is one and even if She has many names, She's in every woman.” — Laura Tolomei Copy Share Image
“So why do we call her crazy for piling her trailer full of more cats than she could take care of but applaud when… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“She's one of those who goes all gooey over small furry animals. Not that it stops her eating them” — Simon Bestwick Copy Share Image
“The names expose the namer more than they limn what's caught the eye.” — Tim Lilburn Copy Share Image
“she lived a life almost obsessively devoted to triviality. She'd turned into a pond skater, not because she didn't know what lay beneath the… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
“The saddest thing of all was that their party represented a deviation from the conditions of the time. It was impossible to imagine that… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
No deep and strong feeling, such as we may come across here and there in the world, is unmixed with compassion. The more we… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail or retribution,… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
And so it turned out that only a life similar to the life of those around us, merging with it without a ripple, is… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it.… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“I'll stay with you a little, my unforgettable delight, for as long as my arms and my hands and my lips remember you. I'll… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
If it's so painful to love and absorb electricity, how much more painful it is to be a woman, to be the electricity, to… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“But sometimes, to enable her to bear her life, she needed the accompaniment of an inward music and she could not always compose it… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
