Fields Quotes
2957 quotes by 2075 authors
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Hades raised an eyebrow. When he sat forward in his throne, shadowy faces appeared in the folds of his black robes, faces of torment,as if…
— Rick Riordan
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Yes, he is here in this open field, in sunlight, among the few young trees set out to modify the bare facts-- he's here, but…
— Denise Levertov
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Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity and kindness is for losers. The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts – and…
— Jasper Fforde
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The snow lay thin and apologetic over the world. That wide grey sweep was the lawn, with the straggling trees of the orchard still dark…
— Susan Cooper
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When Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west -- that cloud field of the sky -- to…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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Ascend beyond the sickly atmosphere to a higher plane, and purify yourself by drinking as if it were ambrosia the fire that fills and fuels…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The fields stretch out in long unbroken rows. We walk aware of what is far and close. Here distance is familiar as a friend. The…
— Theodore Roethke
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Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.
— Umberto Eco
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A cloak of invisibility? This is a highly sensitive piece of field equipment. What does he think? Some warlock pulled it out of his armpit?
— Eoin Colfer
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I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
— Charles Baudelaire
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There is a relentless search for the factual and this quest often lacks warmth or reverence. At a certain stage in our life we may…
— John O'Donohue
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Yet I saw crypts when I looked at him, and I heard the beat of kettledrums. I saw torchlit fields where I had never been,…
— Anne Rice
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There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated form.…
— Victor Pelevin
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Dead fields under a November sky, scattered rose petals brown and turning up at the edges, empty pools scummed with algae, rot, decomposition, dust...
— Stephen King
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No single man makes history. History cannot be seen, just as one cannot see grass growing. Wars and revolutions, kings and Robespierres, are history's organic…
— Boris Pasternak
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The sun goes down long and red. All the magic names of the valley unrolled - Manteca, Madera, all the rest. Soon it got dusk,…
— Jack Kerouac
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They have no idea that it can be done by a bus driver, a field hand, or a fry cook. They have no idea where…
— Charles Bukowski
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The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit up. I had…
— Marian Keyes
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Apparently, sir you Chinese are far ahead of us in every respect, except that you don’t have entrepreneurs. And our nation, though it has no…
— Aravind Adiga
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I have never been much of a patriot. My father would not have allowed such a thing while he lived, and his death insured that…
— David Benioff
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