Imagery Quote by Jane Urquhart Download Open image ““The lake was a shield of beaten brass flung down in the valley under a full sun.”” — Jane Urquhart ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beaten Brass Brass Flung Flung Valley Imagery Lake Lake Shield Moon Sun
“The sun was fierce, the land seemed to glisten and drip with steam.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The lake water was reinventing the forest and the white moon above it, and wolves lapped up the cold reflection of the sky.” — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
“The sun was strong, glinting off the bridge and hitting the river like shattered glass.” — Nichole Bernier Copy Share Image
“I found a pristine lake, undisturbed by man. So, of course I had to clang a few pots and piss in the lake, to… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“ This lake is alive. Kicking. Breathing. Frothing. I envision it's as angry as I am. As resolved to its fate as I've become.… — S.A. McAuley Copy Share Image
“Lake had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it made everyone perfectly equal, and that the treasures of the earth were movement, courage,… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“The sky was low and broody, but from here, near the treeline, you could see the forest rolling down into the valley, the lake… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
“The lake has all sorts of different faces. And so it’s always fresh.” — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
“The moon hung heavy over the lake like an overripe orange, trickling its golden stream of light across inky depths.” — Julie Lessman Copy Share Image
“This couldn’t be just a lake. No real water was ever blue like that. A light breeze stirred the pin-cherry tree beside the window,… — Dorothy Maywood Bird Copy Share Image
“The sun was now in its death throes, bruising the sky a coiling purple and orange.” — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
Longing for something that you once had is a mistake because the pictures in your mind are never the same as whatever it is… — Jane Urquhart Copy Share Image
“the low light entering the room from the west window always caused the large oval of the table to shine like a lake, a… — Jane Urquhart Copy Share Image
“Old Eileen leaned forward in her chair, thrusting her face closer to the child who had been gradually approaching her. "Where is the centre… — Jane Urquhart Copy Share Image
Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth. — Jane Urquhart Copy Share Image
Racism is a destructive and artificially-manufactured element in the collective human psyche designed to fragment the natural desire of human beings to know and… — Jane Urquhart Copy Share Image
“As the sky behind the Eddy Match Factory across the river filled with light, the steady timbre of the water and rapids became sentences… — Jane Urquhart Copy Share Image
“She knew she was a purveyor of costume, of disguise, a fabricator of persona, one who touched only the protective surface, never the skin,… — Jane Urquhart Copy Share Image
“the boards of oaken floors polished to such a degree the furniture was reflected in them like architecture placed at the edge of vast… — Jane Urquhart Copy Share Image
“How long, Klara wondered now, how long after the mortar set did the joy remain? When one embraces a moment of rapture from the… — Jane Urquhart Copy Share Image
“This was the way it was going to be then, this road she was going to have to walk. She would always be thinking… — Jane Urquhart Copy Share Image
Get drunk, Austin, have a love affair. It would be a tragedy to die and discover that you hadn't completely used up your body. — Jane Urquhart Copy Share Image
“Any work of art," said her grandfather,"must achieve sainthood before we set it free to roam in the world.” — Jane Urquhart Copy Share Image
I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and… — Nathan Oliveira Copy Share Image
Perhaps, if science is clever enough to see, it will realize that religion may not be too far off with its concrete imagery; and… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
That way of inspiration is always open, and open to everyone; it acts as go-between, interpreter, it explains symbols of the past in to-day's… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
“]Sardis often turning her thoughts here ] you like a goddess and in your song most of all she rejoiced. But now she is… — Sappho Copy Share Image
Probably the high-watermark of [Bob] Dylan's career came after he plugged in his guitar ("Judas!" one fan shouted during a concert) and exploded American… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
“Thousands of mosquitoes had already bitten all of us on chest and arms and ankles. Then a bright idea came to me: I jumped… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity. Marilyn is the sex goddess,… — Alison Jackson Copy Share Image
Who can now deny the loss of natural light, of skin tones, of real place, and common but precious things in our movies, to… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
“It was not a great presence but a great absence, a geometric ocean of darkness that seemed to swallow heaven itself.” — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image