Lids Quotes
43 quotes by 42 authors
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Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Die on a hilltop... eyeing the crows... waiting for your lids to close... but you want to watch as they peck your flesh... Ironic that…
— Eddie Vedder
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Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust.
— William Shakespeare
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You would open a drawer, which my father had jammed full of newspapers, and the bottom would drop out. There were buttons and screws and…
— Roz Chast
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Talented performers flock to the best and brightest leaders, and these leaders in turn lift the lids off their people and uncork the latent talent…
— John C. Maxwell
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I'm not the sexiest thing in the world, I feel actors who have to 'play' sexy lose all their sex appeal. When they start with…
— Stephanie Zimbalist
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They say that God lives very high! But if you look above the pines You cannot see our God. And why? And if you dig…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of imagination. This process…
— Patti Smith
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Truth is always present; it only needs to lift the iron lids of the mind's eye to read its oracles.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I have a coconut oil stick, which I use for everything - on my eye lids to make them shinier, on my lips, and on…
— Georgia May Jagger
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I like the Bible folded between lids of cloth, or calfskin, or morocco, but I like it better when, in the shape of a man,…
— Thomas De Witt Talmage
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Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy of being No-one's sleep under so many lids.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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(What are your ghosts like?) (They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.) (This is also where my ghosts reside.) (You have…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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I will stay in prison till the moss grows on my eye lids rather than disobey God.
— John Bunyan
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I was never young. Whoever I was then is dead. That's more of your quills. I don't want a hide full, thanks. I have always…
— Ray Bradbury
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I feel moderately bad about this whole thing. On the one hand, I am providing myself with urgently required survival skills. Other lessons in this…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art--- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's…
— John Keats
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The front door shut, leaving Alec sitting in the half-lit garden, alone. He closed his eyes for a moment, the image of a face hovering…
— Cassandra Clare
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Three points for the dead slowly prising open the lids of their coffins. They want to hunt the living. They can't stop. Their throats have…
— Jenny Downham
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I take this for myself, and you take up the thread of my life between your teeth, tin thread and tarnished with abuse, you shall…
— Frank O'Hara
Who Wrote These Lids Quotes
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