Summon Quotes

145 quotes by 125 authors

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the… — Arthur Miller
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. — Christopher Reeve
Every isolated passion, is, in isolation, insane; sanity may be defined as synthesis of insanities. Every dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of… — Bertrand Russell
Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It… — Franz Kafka
When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought... — William Shakespeare
So the city became the material expression of a particular loss of innocence â€“ not sexual or political innocence but somehow a shared dream of… — Thomas Pynchon
Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and… — Susanna Clarke
The thread has snapped. No sound even to mark the breaking let alone the fall. That long anticipated disintegration, when the darkest angel of all,… — Mark Z. Danielewski
A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a… — Maurice Blanchot
If I try to summon back his face, the sound of his voice, and the sensation in my stomach like a key turning in a… — Joyce Carol Oates
When you remember me, it means you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I… — Frederick Buechner
I found that many gifted people are so afraid of writing a poor story that they cannot summon the nerve to write a single sentence… — Brenda Ueland
I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgement bar of God that I declared to the world, in the most straightforward language… — Jeffrey R. Holland
I take this for myself, and you take up the thread of my life between your teeth, tin thread and tarnished with abuse, you shall… — Frank O'Hara
Stop it. This is serious! (Selena) Serious? Please. Iâ€™m standing out here on my twenty-ninth birthday, barefoot and in jeans my mother would burn, holding… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
That is a considerable amount of puppets. But ... [Proceeds to summon one hundred puppets of his own] With this, I took down a whole… — Masashi Kishimoto
I thought about all the things I was suddenly able to doâ€”like fight with a sword and summon a magical shell of armor. Those were… — Rick Riordan
I'm not a very nostalgic person. I don't really look at the past and summon up regrets, or self-congratulations, it just is not a mechanism… — Leonard Cohen
I caught Bastâ€™s arm when she was a few steps from the bank. â€œStay away from the water.â€ She frowned. â€œCarter, Iâ€™m a cat. Iâ€™m… — Rick Riordan
Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear,… — Lewis Carroll

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