Painted Quotes
547 Painted quotes by 429 unique authors
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I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV, featuring some dragged-out…
— Sarah Dessen
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Something in me was responding now as the audience responded, not in fear, but in some human way, to the magic of that fragile painted…
— Anne Rice
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I carried [Rudy] softly through the broken street...with him I tried a little harder [at comforting]. I watched the contents of his soul for a…
— Markus Zusak
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We carry around in our heads these pictures of what our lives are supposed to look like, painted by the brush of out intentions. It's…
— Richard Paul Evans
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No, life cannot be understood flat on a page. It has to be lived; a person has to get out of his head, has to…
— Donald Miller
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On Christ’s glory I would fix all my thoughts and desires, and the more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted…
— John Owen
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What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations…
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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I faced the gaudy sunflower on her canvas bag -- it looked hand-painted and at last my eyes fell into hers. I said, 'Thanks for…
— Jerry Spinelli
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Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier…
— John Updike
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One foot in front of the other, counting tiles on the floor so I don't have to focus the blur of painted smiles, fake faces.
— Ellen Hopkins
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Talk—half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on porcelain. The muffled,…
— Anais Nin
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I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death — this infantile fixation of mine — was, at that moment, overwhelming. I…
— Ingmar Bergman
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Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of…
— Chinua Achebe
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My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies, Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die, I can fly, my friends...
— Freddie Mercury
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Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And…
— William Shakespeare
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Chronicler picked up his pen, but before he could dip it, Kvothe held up a hand. "Let me say one thing before I start. I've…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That we made mistakes.…
— Jodi Picoult
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Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS…
— Yann Martel
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...in my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust…
— Vladimir Nabokov
Who Wrote These Painted Quotes
429 authors contributed a total of 547 Painted Quotes, led by these top contributors: