Twigs Quotes
61 quotes by 57 authors
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Not to find one's way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance - nothing more. But to lose oneself in…
— Walter Benjamin
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I used to be so twig skinny that I couldn't eat enough, because I was just naturally skinny. Until I went to China.
— Lisa Ling
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As a child I drew objects that caught my eye outside the window of my room - the dry twigs, leaves and lizard-like creatures crawling…
— R. K. Laxman
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No nose hair. Ever. You'd be surprised at all the little twigs sticking out. I just can't get it. How can you see that and…
— Kyan Douglas
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He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not previously disturbed either birds or…
— Dean Koontz
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As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
— Alexander Pope
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October turned my maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers: Soon these will slip from the twigs' weak…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape and all surfaces,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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NovemberÂ’s days are thirty: NovemberÂ’s earth is dirty, Those thirty days, from first to last; And the prettiest things on ground are the paths.... Few…
— Edward Thomas
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After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig.
— Chinua Achebe
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Today the human race is a single twig on the tree of life, a single species on a single planet. Our condition can thus only…
— Robert Zubrin
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Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs…
— Milos Forman
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To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet: it's just too…
— Marianne Boruch
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Enjoying the least things - a chill glass of water, a moment of play with the cat, the sight of sunlight caught in the frost…
— Stephanie Mills
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It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity. In one twig…
— Steven Pinker
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Sleep doesn't come easy when a broken twig conjures images of a hulking mental patient snapping the arms off children, over by the bin.
— Craig Stone
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Bare twigs in April enhance our pleasure; We know the good time is yet to come.... Bare twigs in Autumn are signs for sadness; We…
— William Allingham
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that…
— Carl Jung
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First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch…
— Martin Luther
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