Tendrils Quotes
22 quotes by 22 authors
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The instructor can scarcely give sensibility where it is essentially wanting, nor talent to the unpercipient block. But he can cultivate and direct the affections…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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The tendrils of a new, deeper form of spirituality are growing. It's the greening under the surface crust of consciousness and social paradigm.
— Jean Houston
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Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, of course, lays out the delegated, enumerated, and therefore limited powers of Congress. Only through a deliberate misreading…
— Ed Crane
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A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient…
— Samuel Johnson
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The honeysuckle was everywhere the day the letter arrived, like heat. Wild roses bloomed in hedges of tendrils and perfume. There were fat bees, dirigible…
— Cathleen Schine
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If this advertisement be not sufficient, I can only protrude my wormlike tendrils of apology, craving forbearance on the grounds that a writer must write…
— William T. Vollmann
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Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know, Are a substantial world, both pure and good: Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh…
— William Wordsworth
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He had electric blue hair that had stuck around his head like tendrils of a startled octopus.
— Cassandra Clare
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A summer rain had left the night clean and sparkling with drops of water. I leaned against the end pillar of the gallery, my head…
— Anne Rice
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The desert seems to be a brown wasteland of dry, prickly scrub whose only purpose is to serve as a setting for the majestic saguaros.…
— Jerry Spinelli
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Sarah took a deep breath and set off along the passageway again. A clump of lichen on the gatepost opened its eyes and watched her…
— A.C.H. Smith
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Then Carol slipped her arm under her neck, and all the length of their bodies touched fitting as if something had prearranged it. Happiness was…
— Patricia Highsmith
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The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.
— Judith Guest
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The warm dampness of her breath made me shiver at the mix of the familiar and the unknown, with a soft exhalation she shifted her…
— Kim Harrison
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She'd slept terribly the night before. The room, the bed, were both comfortable enough, but she'd been plagued with strange dreams, the sort that lingered…
— Kate Morton
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I can smell the smoke now. I can see tendrils of it comin' up between the cracks in the shrikin' floorboards. There she is, calmly…
— L.A. Meyer
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Crank, You See isn't any ordinary monster. It's like a giant octopus, weaving its tentacles not just around you, but through you, squeezing not hard…
— Ellen Hopkins
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but it's not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. "Stay with me." As the tendrils…
— Suzanne Collins
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No, they would not be happy to take my place at your side, cara mia, because I would promptly end their lives in a most…
— Christine Feehan
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When you draw, you copy the world don't you? You remake it on paper, but it isn't the same. It's yours. No one else could…
— Catherine Fisher
Who Wrote These Tendrils Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 22 Tendrils Quotes as follows: