Solid Quotes

974 quotes by 815 authors

O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon… — William Shakespeare
My uncle ordered popovers from the restaurant's bill of fare. And, when they were served, he regarded them with a penetrating stare. Then he spoke… — Dr. Seuss
As birds' wings beat the solid air without which none could fly so words freed by the imagination affirm reality by their flight. — William Carlos Williams
Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is superfluous… — Muhammad Asad
The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there,… — Audrey Niffenegger
When we come face-to-face with one down a dark alley, we're going to be having a shufti to see if it's solid, aren't we, we're… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Most men will not swim before they are able to.â€ Is that not witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth,… — Hermann Hesse
Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can… — W. P. Kinsella
Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older. — Sloane Crosley
I never ask my wife about my flaws. Instead I try to get her to ignore them and concentrate on my sense of humor. You… — Paul Newman
Strange and mysterious things, though, aren't they - earthquakes? We take it for granted that the earth beneath our feet is solid and stationary. We… — Haruki Murakami
What you call your personality, you know? --it's not like actual bones, or teeth, something solid. It's more like a flame. A flame can be… — Joyce Carol Oates
People think that alien spaceships would be solid and made of metal and have lights all over them and move slowly through the sky because… — Mark Haddon
If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I ask of a… — Philip Pullman
Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. — Winston Churchill
It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Faith is like stepping off a cliff and expecting one of two outcomes- you will either land on solid ground or you will be taught… — Hillary Clinton
Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of your superficial plating.… — Aldous Huxley
Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids… — R. Buckminster Fuller

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