Visit Quotes
856 quotes by 720 authors
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Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.
— Gary Snyder
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I sleep during the day. I still dream about drinking and drugs. Sometimes I wake to a hang-over, sometimes I wake to a trickle of…
— James Frey
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In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in fewer still.
— Milorad Pavić
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Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found…
— Julian Barnes
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When we die, these are the stories still on our lips. The stories we’ll only tell strangers, someplace private in the padded cell of midnight.…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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And what is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamped with the immediacy of a lip, a…
— Edmond Rostand
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Their love as a dragonfly, skimming over echo park, stoppin to visit the lotus. Eating dreams and drinking blue sky.
— Janet Fitch
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Are you all right, Sir?" asked Hezekiah. "Just fighting over old battles in my mind," said John. "It's the problem with age. You have all…
— Orson Scott Card
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I imagine that the goddess of Love has come down from Olympus to visit a mortal. So as not to die of cold in this…
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes…
— Neil Gaiman
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Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his…
— George Eliot
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There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance Europe. Then, Columbus sailed the ocean blue and landed…
— Tom Robbins
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We queers of Revelation hill...died of the greed of power, because we were expendable. If you mean to visit any of us, it had better…
— Paul Monette
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Ogbuef Ezedudu,who was the oldest man in the village, was telling two other men when they came to visit him that the punishment for breaking…
— Chinua Achebe
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A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day…
— Annie Dillard
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... the man took my passport and asked me the purpose of my visit, I wrote in my daybook, 'To mourn,' and then, 'To try…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.…
— Albert Einstein
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Last night you said you wanted to know what to expect so you could better select your attire. I told you we were going to…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
Who Wrote These Visit Quotes
720 authors contributed a total of 856 Visit Quotes, led by these top contributors: