Passages Quotes

538 Passages quotes by 451 unique authors

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to...… — Henry Louis Gates
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. — Edward Gibbon
I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as… — Amy Grant
I'm still an English professor at Rice University here in Houston. They've been very generous in letting me on a very long leash to just… — Justin Cronin
They say it's not the snoring itself but those anxiety-packed moments in between snorts. It's the waiting for the nasal passages of the person lying… — Sloane Crosley
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time. — Richard Dawkins
I've always been a fan of the 19th century novel, of the novel that is plotted, character-driven, and where the passage of time is almost… — John Irving
Fertile soil, level plains, easy passage across the mountains, coal, iron, and other metals imbedded in the rocks, and a stimulating climate, all shower their… — Ellsworth Huntington
We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through… — Lauren Hutton
Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. — Samuel Johnson
Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think… — Erica Jong
Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9… — Billie Jean King
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows. — Ed Koch
You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has… — Vivien Leigh
A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in… — Maya Lin
I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed… — Maya Lin
Passage Vero-Dodat - I started my company on this passage. It feels as much home as it can! — Christian Louboutin
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month… — Thomas Mann
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only… — W. Somerset Maugham
With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and… — Jon Meacham
Prior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence… — Robert Muller
For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second… — Haruki Murakami
There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which… — Joyce Carol Oates
Look at almost any passage, and you'll find that a paragraph has five or six metaphors in it. It's not that the speaker is trying… — Steven Pinker
Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it -… — John Podhoretz

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