Lids Quotes
43 quotes by 42 authors
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Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Bright star, would I were steadfast 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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That moment she was mine, mine, fair, Perfectly pure and good: I found A thing to do, and all her hair In one long yellow…
— Robert Browning
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You have not known what you are--you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life; Your eye-lids have been the same as closed most of the…
— Walt Whitman
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up…
— Sylvia Plath
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How Superheroes Make Money: - Spider-Man knits sweaters. - Superman screw the lids on pickle jars. - Iron Man, as you would suspect, just irons.
— Jim Benton
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Summertime, I think, is a collective unconscious. We all remember the notes that made up the song of the ice cream man; we all know…
— Jodi Picoult
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You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many books in one.…
— Louisa May Alcott
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She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other place, when her…
— John Crowley
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Axiom: you are a sea. Your eye- lids curve over chaos My hands where they touch you, create small inhabited islands soon you will be…
— Margaret Atwood
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Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting…
— Emily Bronte
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Garrett must have sensed I was awake. "Hey Detective," he said to Uncle Bob, who was now trudging across the grating toward us. "I think…
— Darynda Jones
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Look at me, Emma." Her eyes are full, the lids heavy. "Graham," she breathes. "I need you to hear me." Cradling her head in my…
— Tammara Webber
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She is standing on my lids And her hair is in my hair She has the colour of my eye She has the body of…
— Paul Eluard
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But wells don't come without first begging to see the wells; wells don't come without first splitting open hard earth, cracking back the lids. There's…
— Ann Voskamp
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I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in…
— Adrienne Rich
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I collect flickering stars in old pickling jars, poking holes in the lids so they can breathe.
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Listening is the most dangerous thing of all, listening means knowing, finding out about something and knowing what’s going on, our ears don’t have lids…
— Javier MarÃas
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....Tonight My Eyes....(By Mimi Mata) I did not bat a single eyelash for you tonight; I wanted to cease what was invisible, I did not…
— Mimi Mata (Aspiring Writer)
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I put the weight on after we were together. I put on about 20 pounds when we got married, and people were flipping their lids.…
— Delta Burke
Who Wrote These Lids Quotes
42 authors contributed a total of 43 Lids Quotes, led by these top contributors: