Overlaid Quotes
10 quotes by 9 authors
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Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but…
— Maurice Sendak
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The girl's face was the color of talcum. Her uncle's was a death mask, a bone structure overlaid by parchment. Shane's was granite, with a…
— Cornell Woolrich
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If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.
— Maurice Sendak
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I am interposing overlaid planes a short way off... To make it understood that things are in front of each other instead of being scattered…
— Georges Braque
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Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is standing or falling. By this…
— J I Packer
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Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts--census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei,…
— Thomas Pynchon
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What about your freedom?" he whispered in her ear over a minute later, bracing his hands palms down on the wall beside her head. He…
— Nalini Singh
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Her face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes - that would be…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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To produce a really good biological theory one must try to see through the clutter produced by evolution to the basic mechanisms lying beneath them,…
— Francis Crick
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Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together.
— Pat Colander
Who Wrote These Overlaid Quotes
9 authors contributed a total of 10 Overlaid Quotes as follows: