Vacancy Quote by Graham Greene Download Open image “I couldn't have thought of her more. Even vacancy was crowded with her.” — Graham Greene ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Vacancy
she was beautiful and seemingly quite intelligent, what with her pentameter search system. There wasn't a reason in the world not to find her… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The casting director on the movie made me aware of her. She told me what to watch Starter For Ten, which I did and… — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
The city atmosphere certainly has improved her. Some way she doesn't seem like the same woman. — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I found myself staring at her, which was stupid since I'd seen her a billion times. Still, she seemed so much more mature. It… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be. — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
She was smart and funny and vulnerable and just so goddamned beautiful, the kind of beautiful that was worth being shot down over. — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
She had gained a reputation for beauty, and (which is often another thing) was beautiful. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
She liked to disappear, even when she was in the same room as other people. It was a talent, as it was a curse. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He had thought that home was something one possessed, but the things one had possessed were cursed with change; it was what one didn't… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He said, ‘Oh god, help her. Damn me, I deserve it, but let her live forever.’ This was the love he should have felt… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded by the… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The infinity of this vacancy, the pervasive pain, the longing for some spirit, some lightness, some joy - that's all that is left. — Martha Manning Copy Share Image
It infuriated him to think that there were still people in the state who believed in a loving and merciful God. There are mystics who are said to have experienced God directly. He was a mystic, too, and what he had experienced was vacancy--a complete certainty in the existence of a dying, cooling world, of human beings who had evolved… — Graham Greene Copy Share
Action is transitory, a step, a blow, The motion of a muscle, this way or that, 'Tis done--And in the after-vacancy, We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed. — William Wordsworth Copy Share
Art as an aesthetic principle was supported by thousands of years of discernment and psychic rewards, but art as a commodity was held up by air. The loss of confidence that affected banks and financial instruments was not affecting cherubs, cupids and flattened popes. The objects hadn't changed: what was there before was there after. But a vacancy was created… — Steve Martin Copy Share
Redd Towers Apartments, whose advertising slogan, 'If you lived here, you'd be home by now,' did little to fill vacancies. — Frank Beddor Copy Share Image
“The vacancy in your heart doesn't connotes that nobody is seeking for the job of servicing your feelings, but because the employee must first… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“The first thing, of course, is to find a vacancy, a place where a teacher is wanted, and the second thing is to make… — Thomas E. Sanders Copy Share Image
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
True inward quietness ... is not vacancy, but stability - the steadfastness of a single purpose. — Caroline Emelia Stephen Copy Share Image
