Wafted Quotes
22 quotes by 21 authors
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A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.
— Caroline Gordon
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The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the Sgt. Pepper album was released.. .…
— Langdon Winner
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The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown Come into the garden, Maud, I am here at the gate alone: And…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Sweet Memory! wafted by thy gentle gale, Oft up the stream of Time I turn my sail.
— Samuel Rogers
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Wafted up, The stealing cloud with soft grey blinds the sky And in its vapory mantle onward steps The summer shower.
— Alfred Billings Street
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The fresh smell of coffee soon wafted through the apartment, the smell that separates night from day.
— Haruki Murakami
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A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And…
— Joseph Addison
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God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.
— Frank Knox
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Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.
— Germaine Greer
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Home! That was what they meant, those caressing appeals, Those soft touches wafted through the air, those invisible little hands pulling and tugging, all one…
— Kenneth Grahame
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The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles…
— James Joyce
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Wind and storm colored July. Also, in the middle, cadaverous, awful, lay the grey puddle in the courtyard, when holding an envelope in my hand,…
— Virginia Woolf
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These loaves, pigeons, and two little boys seemed unearthly. It all happened at the same time: a little boy ran over to a pigeon, glancing…
— Leo Tolstoy
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As she lifted the glittering strand of diamonds from the box, a small slip of paper fell out. She caught it as it wafted toward…
— Karen Marie Moning
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‎The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense…
— Leon Trotsky
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The oven became hotter and hotter, and Hansel began to sweat. Then a delicious smell wafted to his nostrils. Oh no! he thought. I'm cooking!…
— Adam Gidwitz
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I want my room to smell just like this." Iggy inhaled deeply as the scents flame-broiled burgers and hot french fries wafted around us. 'it…
— James Patterson
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Fine,' Aria conceded. 'But *I'll* carry her.' She grabbed the baby seeat from the back. A smell of baby powder wafted up to greet her,…
— Sara Shepard
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When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold,…
— Anthony Powell
Who Wrote These Wafted Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 22 Wafted Quotes as follows: