Rustling Quotes

44 quotes by 41 authors

It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time… — Nathaniel Branden
There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of… — Paul Tillich
...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader… — Louisa May Alcott
The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but… — C.S. Lewis
Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains... — F. Scott Fitzgerald
In a split second of eternity, everything is changed, transfigured. A few bars of music, rising from an unfamiliar place, a touch of perfection in… — Muriel Barbery
GATHERING LEAVES Spades take up leaves No better than spoons, And bags full of leaves Are light as balloons. I make a great noise Of… — Robert Frost
And it was awfully strange, he thought, how she still had the power, as she came tinkling, rustling, still had the power as she came… — Virginia Woolf
I would not like to live in a world without cathedrals. I need their beauty and grandeur. I need their imperious silence. I need it… — Pascal Mercier
Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom of… — Margaret Atwood
The Stars. Jared slept beneath them, uneasy in the rustling leaves. From the battlements Finn gazed up at them, seeing the impossible distances between galaxies… — Catherine Fisher
We got him to talk to a psych doctor once, the doctor asked if he heard things other people don't. Sure, Paul answered, I hear… — Nick Flynn
One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I wish you luck. — Sergei Lukyanenko
There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them, which by their… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
All forests have their own personality. I don't just mean the obvious differences, like how an English woodland is different from a Central American rain… — Charles de Lint
And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me â€” filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to… — Edgar Allan Poe
Okay, let me get a pen." There were rustling noises. "I can't find one." More noises. "Okay,shoot." "You found a pen?" "No, but I have… — Linda Howard
I was already dozing off in the shade, dreaming that the rustling trees were my many selves explaining themselves all at the same time so… — Charles Simic

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