Trailing Quotes
59 quotes by 52 authors
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks…
— A. S. Byatt
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Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is…
— Maya Angelou
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Eating alone is a disappointment. But not eating matter more, is hollow and green, has thorns like a chain of fish hooks, trailing from the…
— Pablo Neruda
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Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.
— Maya Angelou
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It takes a lot more to run a good business than just trailing commissions or kickbacks otherwise everybody would succeed, wouldn't they?
— John Ilhan
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Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone. Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that he was a…
— Maya Angelou
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If a fox is unable to befriend a tiger, then the fox should create an illusion of close association with the tiger by carefully trailing…
— Chin-Ning Chu
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If you wait through long, cold hours in the November woods with a bow in your hands hoping a buck will show or if you…
— Donald Trump, Jr.
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Elephants, it turns out, are surprisingly stealthy. As the sunlight fades, other species declare their presence. Throngs of zebras and wildebeests thunder by in the…
— Thomas French
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The emancipation of today displays itself mainly in cigarettes and shorts... painted lips and nails, and the return of trailing skirts and other absurdities of…
— Sylvia Pankhurst
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Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own breaths. It was…
— Elisabeth Eaves
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One of the big problems with growth investing is that we can't estimate earnings very well. I really want to buy growth at value prices.…
— David Dreman
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I've had my best times when trailing a Mainbocher evening gown across a sawdust floor. I've always loved high style in low company.
— Anita Loos
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Obama entered the presidency trailing clouds of intellectual self-regard. His carefully cultivated persona was of a uniquely thoughtful, judicious, deliberative, evidence-driven man comfortable with complexity.…
— George Will
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I think people still have a need for miracles. Science keeps telling them there's no life on Mars, there's no God, nothing's trailing Hale-Bopp, those…
— David Duchovny
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To read Helen Macdonald's memoir, H Is for Hawk, is to feel as though Emily Bronte just turned up at your door, trailing all the…
— Maureen Corrigan
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As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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But most men regard their life as a poem that women threaten. They may not have two spondees to rub together but they still want…
— Alan Bennett
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No man beholds his mother's womb Yet who denies it's there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord that links us…
— Wole Soyinka
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Researchers can measure what kind of angles your legs take up during the day when they're just trailing around behind you in weightless conditions, and…
— John L. Phillips
Who Wrote These Trailing Quotes
52 authors contributed a total of 59 Trailing Quotes, led by these top contributors: