Strand Quotes

70 quotes by 65 authors

Of course when you spend four hours in prosthetic makeup and you really are looking at yourself and you see how revolting you've become in… — Gerard Butler
To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure. Passion is sweeter… — Jeanette Winterson
Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand! — Walter Scott
A final reminder. Whenever you are in Paris at twilight in the early summer, return to the Seine and watch the evening sky close slowly… — Kate Simon
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er… — Walter Scott
The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to… — Bret Anthony Johnston
What about the hero of The House on the Strand? What did it mean when he dropped the telephone at the end of the book?… — Daphne du Maurier
In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand. — Walter Scott
Going down (descending), I realized, was like taking hold of the loose strand of yard on a sweater you'd just spent hours knitting and pulling… — Cheryl Strayed
Martha says the interesting thing about fly fishing is that it's two lives connected by a thin strand. Come on, Martha. Grow up. — Jack Handey
Shallow ecology is anthropocentric, or human-centred. It views humans as above or outside nature, as the source of all value, and ascribes only instrumental, or… — Fritjof Capra
I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies. — Bob Hawke
I believe that a revolution can begin from this one strand of straw. Seen at a glance, this rice straw may appear light and insignificant.… — Masanobu Fukuoka
I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand. — Winston Churchill
Patience has the meaning of testing-a thing drawn out and tested, drawn out to the last strand in a strain without breaking, and ending in… — Oswald Chambers
Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light,… — Sam Abell
Our stories affect one another whether we know it or not. Sometimes obedience isn't for us at all, but for another. We don't know how… — Jen Hatmaker
We weren't getting a fair deal on the budget and I wasn't going to have it. There's a great strand of equity and fairness in… — Margaret Thatcher
By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job… — Robert Quine
In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds. — William Lilly

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