Appear Quotes

1904 quotes by 1364 authors

Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred… — Diane Setterfield
I am concentrating docilely on the question why U.S. restrooms always appear to us as infirmaries for public distress, the place to reagain control. — David Foster Wallace
Whatever the Way, the master of strategy does not appear fastâ€¦.Of course, slowness is bad. Really skillful people never get out of time, and are… — Miyamoto Musashi
It was like time would stop, and the dancer would sort of step through some kind of portal and he wasn't doing anything different than… — Elizabeth Gilbert
One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy (?) made it… — Saul Bellow
Yes, it is true that sometimes unusually intelligent and sensitive children can appear to be stupid. But stupid children can sometimes appear to be stupid… — Douglas Adams
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know… — Epictetus
In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we… — Salman Rushdie
Really, I'm trying to care, Artemis, really. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the fat lady sings. Well, she's singing,… — Eoin Colfer
I witness the birth on paper of sentences that have eluded my will and appear in spite of me on the sheet, teaching me something… — Muriel Barbery
Science,' said Mr Anders Anders. 'Science, not magic. I told you before: when things are not as they appear to be, it's because they're actually… — Robert Rankin
In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are. — Niccolo Machiavelli
You'd tell me if we were getting married, wouldn't you? I mean, you wouldn't just appear on my doorstep one day and say we were… — Janet Evanovich
It was always hard work to push through a crowed of reporters with the scent of blood in their nostrils. You might not think so,… — Jeff Lindsay
Intelligent people know they are intelligent. They also know that one person cannot know all, hence a person is not stupid simply because he is… — Lynsay Sands
Foolish names and foolish faces often appear in public places. — Curtis Sittenfeld
Possibly the only good to come out of these nightmares was that it brought Hans Hubermann, her new papa, into the room, to soothe her,… — Markus Zusak
It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false… — J.R.R. Tolkien
It is easy to be religious when religion is in fashion; but it is an evidence of strong faith and resolution to swim against a… — Matthew Henry

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