Suspended Quotes
183 quotes by 162 authors
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The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water.
— Frida Giannini
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You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks…
— Terence McKenna
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I was watching MTV and there were girls dancing in suspended cages. That would be an ambivalent situation: "I'm trapped! ...but enjoying the music".
— Demetri Martin
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Everyone used to chuck snails at each other at school, and I used to try and save them. And not only did I get in…
— Robert Pattinson
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It is far more than the discovery of life without a self. The immediate, inevitable result is an emergence into a new dimension of knowing…
— Bernadette Roberts
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I'm not very good in a classroom sort of setting. I never was. I was kind of a clown in high school - got suspended…
— Bobby Cannavale
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Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for…
— Emile M. Cioran
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The great majority of Americans are suspended between these opposing attitudes. They are uneasy with injustice but unwilling yet to pay a significant price to…
— Martin Luther
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Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences.
— Ronald Reagan
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Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
— Samuel Johnson
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The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere…
— Lucinda Franks
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Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death,…
— Jean Baudrillard
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There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.
— Meryl Streep
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In these anxious times many of us are less astonished that reason is ever suspended than that it should ever prevail, even during the briefest…
— Morton Irving Seiden
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I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever,…
— George Steinbrenner
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For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy.
— Bertrand Russell
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Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the…
— Claude McKay
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To be on the safe and humane side, let every relative and friend ... remember the golden rule, which has never been suspended with respect…
— Clifford Whittingham Beers
Who Wrote These Suspended Quotes
162 authors contributed a total of 183 Suspended Quotes, led by these top contributors: