Motionless Quotes

104 quotes by 92 authors

Youâ€™re like a lighthouse shining beside the sea of humanity, motionless: all you can see is your own reflection in the water. Youâ€™re alone, so… — Alfred de Musset
And he beholds the moon; like a rounded fragment of ice filled with motionless light. — Gustave Flaubert
A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and… — John Steinbeck
I want to do it too!" (sitting motionless) Nudge: "Nope, you stand out like a fart in a church." Max: (muttering) "Appropriately enough." Iggy: "What… — James Patterson
When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that… — Roland Barthes
It is said that mourning, by its gradual labour, slowly erases pain; I could not, I cannot believe this; because for me, Time eliminates the… — Roland Barthes
The black, hungry roses that Redd sent snaking towards the princess were easily squashed, the orbs and and unmanned, airborne blades of effortlessly waved off,… — Frank Beddor
Essentially, perspective is a form of abstraction. It simplifies the relationship between eye, brain and object. It is an ideal view, imagined as being seen… — Robert Hughes
I want you to go back to Tucson and bring me the bottle of tequila I keep in my liquor cabinet. And don't scare Tim."… — Richelle Mead
For a while Bastian stood motionless. He was so stunned by what he had just heard that he couldn't decide what to do... What he… — Michael Ende
I stroke her lightly, memorizing her body. I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk… — Sara Gruen
I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four… — Albert Camus
We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to… — Mother Teresa
A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow… — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
With knowledge there is no hope,... without hope I would sit motionless, rusting like unused armor. — John Steinbeck
Squatting on old bones and excrement and rusty iron, in a white blaze of heat, a panorama of naked idiots stretches to the horizon. Complete… — William S. Burroughs
For a split second longer she stood motionless. Then, somehow, she had caught at the front of his shirt and pulled him toward her. His… — Cassandra Clare
I was driven to Whipsnade one sunny morning. When we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, and… — C.S. Lewis
But Captain Vere was now again motionless, standing absorbed in thought. Again starting, he vehemently exclaimed, "Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet that… — Herman Melville
The trees bathed their great heads in the waves of the morning, while their roots were planted deep in gloom; save where on the borders… — George MacDonald

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