Flakes Quotes
71 quotes by 67 authors
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The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a…
— Alexander Smith
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The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a…
— Alexander Smith
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I am a simple man and I use simple materials: Ivory Black, Vermilion, Prussian Blue, Yellow Ochre, Flake White and no medium. That’s all I’ve…
— L. S. Lowry
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If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like…
— Mitch Albom
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Mont Blanc yet gleams on high: the power is there, The still and solemn power of many sights And many sounds, and much of life…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I'm almost violent about that stuff - electronic manipulation of pictures. I think it's an abomination. I reject it all. I mean, it's OK for…
— Elliott Erwitt
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Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin like cold moths; the air fills with feathers.
— Margaret Atwood
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I drew laughing, high-breasted girls aquaplaning without a care in the world, as a result of being amply protected against such national evils as bleeding…
— J D Salinger
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I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods…
— Albert Camus
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It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing.…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Night falls fast. Today is in the past. Blown from the dark hill hither to my door Three flakes, then four Arrive, then many more.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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If she possessed any memory whatsoever of the days when she'd been whole, her shattered recollections were scattered across the darkscape of her mind in…
— Dean Koontz
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What she really loved was to hang over the edge and watch the bow of the ship slice through the waves. She loved it especially…
— Kristin Cashore
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Peering down into the water where the morning sun fashioned wheels of light, coronets fanwise in which lay trapped each twig, each grain of sediment,…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understood each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of…
— Shel Silverstein
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A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth, now whirled again…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature’s geometric signs, In…
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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The falling flakes were random and without purpose; the snow was drunker than she was.
— Chuck Klosterman
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I saw myself. . . in the time I watched, I saw strength and frailty, pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of wisdom, a little.…
— Lloyd Alexander
Who Wrote These Flakes Quotes
67 authors contributed a total of 71 Flakes Quotes, led by these top contributors: