Taper Quotes

31 Taper quotes by 24 unique authors

For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off. — Johnny Carson
What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never… — Charles Dickens
Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence. — Donald Barthelme
Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. — Oliver Goldsmith
Now I must take you to a very interesting part of our subject-to the relation between the combustion of a candle and that living kind… — Michael Faraday
Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason. — Robert Browning
To stop short in any research that bids fair to widen the gates of knowledge, to recoil from fear of difficulty or adverse criticism, is… — William Crookes
My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He… — Edward Abbey
Start slowly, then taper off. — Walt Stack
The souls of people, on their way to Earth-life, pass through a room full of lights; each takes a taper - often only a spark… — Plato
If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an… — Thomas Jefferson
John Brown's zeal in the cause of freedom was infinitely superior to mine. Mine was as the taper light; his was as the burning sun.… — Frederick Douglass
When I started off as an actress, I did at a play at the Taper Too Theatre here in Los Angeles, called 'In The Abyss… — Vivica Fox
What you do during the offseason is, first, build a base. That takes about three weeks, and then you try to get as strong as… — Josh Beckett
Shoulder width is an absolute requirement for displaying the V taper that will make or break your physique. — Dorian Yates
Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw… — William Shakespeare
I ... express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like it, shine as… — Michael Faraday
Hope, like the gleaming taper — Oliver Goldsmith
'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.' — Benjamin Disraeli
Start slow and taper off. — Walt Stack
To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flames from wasting by repose. — Oliver Goldsmith
Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To… — John Keats
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening… — Thomas Jefferson
The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his… — Virginia Woolf
Glass shattered, vampires roared, humans screamed. The noise battered at me, just as the tidal wave of scores of brains at high gear washed over… — Charlaine Harris

Who Wrote These Taper Quotes

24 authors contributed a total of 31 Taper Quotes as follows: