Entertaining Quote by Dorothy L. Sayers Download Open image “But to Lord Peter the world presented itself as an entertaining labyrinth of side-issues” — Dorothy L. Sayers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Entertaining Issues Labyrinth Lord Lord peter wimsey Peter Sides World
“Peter didn’t want to change the world: he wanted to fully comprehend it.” — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
“Maybe the answer to all of his problems was nothing more than a darkened sky and a glittering city, a lofty perch above the… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“Around them the stubbled land was marked off by plaques and signs that explained to visitors what had happened here on a long-ago July… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more nerve-racking than waiting as someone reads your writing. The reader becomes the videographer, zooming far, far into your heart and… — Gina Marinello-Sweeney Copy Share Image
“As a matter of fact it required only a tolerable show of virtue for Peter to win encomiums at any time. He would brush… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
“The Lord must have been delighted to call Peter out of his obvious weakness into God's stunning strength by giving him a new name,… — Patsy Clairmont Copy Share Image
“But with Peter everything had to be shared; everything gone into.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“That's destiny. It wasn't something Peter could manipulate, coerce, or talent his way into. It's up to God, and it involves His glory, your… — John S. Lynch Copy Share Image
“Peter feasts off people-he finds himself so totally boring that he's got to escape from himself and find refuge and security in another personality-that's… — Roger Lewis Copy Share Image
“Peter had spent his whole life in a town where fights were either drunken and friendly, or silent and petty. True war was foreign… — Jonathan Auxier Copy Share Image
“The really essential factors of success in any undertaking are money and opportunity, and as a rule, the man who can make the first… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“ Peter! Were you looking for a horse-shoe?" "No; I was expecting the horse, but the shoe is a piece of pure, gorgeous luck."… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental treason to the mind ...… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
We may argue eloquently that 'Honesty is the best Policy' - unfortunately, the moment honesty is adopted for the sake of policy it mysteriously… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“By teaching them all to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. By the invention of the film and… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“That was the second time within five minutes that he had warned her off his private ground. His mood had changed since the early… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other… — Rob Sheffield Copy Share Image
I would have done well as a gypsy child, I think. A circus baby. I coulda played a great street urchin or ragamuffin. Or… — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
When I act, I act. When I sing, I sing. I don't put one over the other. Entertaining is what I do best. — Irene Cara Copy Share Image
The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable. — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
The Games have been decimated. If you take away the Eastern Bloc, you take away 50% of the medals — Ron Pickering Copy Share Image
Fun-run" indeed,what a misnomer. That'd be like saying "calm gremlin" or "pleasant hag." Or 'entertaining history textbook. — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
I think the only real referent for anybody writing drama is probably Hamlet. You have the most extreme tragic drama, this sort of blood-boltered… — William Monahan Copy Share Image
A rollicking good read-THE HUNTER is steampunk with a Wild West feel. Theresa Meyers is an entertaining and witty writer with a fresh, new… — Yasmine Galenorn Copy Share Image
Perhaps [the critics are right and] the drama is played out now and Jesus is safely dead and buried. Perhaps. It is ironical and… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Regardless of the importance of known evidence to the contrary, the arts are generally regarded as being so much entertaining fluff, a commodity that… — Ken Danby Copy Share Image
I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There's a… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
Gary Greenberg is a thoughtful comedian and a cranky philosopher and a humble pest of a reporter, equal parts Woody Allen, Kierkegaard, and Columbo.… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share Image