Faintly Quotes
82 quotes by 72 authors
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With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!
— Bayard Taylor
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some…
— Damian Lewis
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When I look in the mirror, I am slightly reminded of self-portraits by Durer and by Rembrandt, because they both show a degree of introspection.…
— Robert Winston
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Dan suggested to Owen and me that we were better off to not involve ourselves with Hester. How true! But how we wanted to be…
— John Irving
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In a way he made me think of a child doll, with briliant faintly red-brown glass eyes - a doll that had been found in…
— Anne Rice
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Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices…
— James Joyce
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Dawn was breaking over the horizon, shell pink and faintly gold...
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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What will happen when my heart stops beating?" Momo asked. When that moment comes," said the professor, "time will stop for you as well. Or…
— Michael Ende
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He stood staring into the wood for a minute, then said: "What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much…
— Dodie Smith
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He felt strangely numb. As though from a great distance, he was aware that he was being beaten. The last sensations of pain left him.…
— Jack London
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Chilled-looking people walking along the riverside, the snow beginning, faintly, to pile up on the roofs of cars, the bare trees shaking their heads left…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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And ever, as the story drained The wells of fancy dry, And faintly strove that weary one To put the subject by, "The rest next…
— Lewis Carroll
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A witch, a vampire, and a pixy walk into a bar, I thought as I led the way into the Squirrel’s End. It was early,…
— Kim Harrison
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She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.
— Sarah Addison Allen
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Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of…
— Charles Dickens
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She knew with suddeness and ease that this moment would be with her always, within hand's reach of memory. She doubted if they all sensed…
— Stephen King
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A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book says. It must…
— Mortimer Adler
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He had the look of an atheist who’d just had a visit from God: stunned, disbelieving and faintly ill.
— Karen Chance
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She said to the Daisy girl with her big brown eyes: 'I will not have it plain. No. Fancy. It must be fancy!' She meant…
— Angela Carter
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Like world describers before me, those mapmakers in the seventeenth centure, I had laid down my first faintly drawn border. With that one tentative mark,…
— Justina Chen
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