Europeans Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides Download Open image ““Aloft, he looked frail, diseased, and temperamental, as we expected a European to look.”” — Jeffrey Eugenides ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Europeans
“He looked like a being who'd voyaged back through time from a world that had overcome illness, pain, and conflict.” — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“How could he look severe and frightening and yet overwhelmingly handsome at the same time?” — Melanie Dickerson Copy Share Image
“He stood in the doorway with his hands in his pockets, the picture of nonchalance, and even as a human, he was too gorgeous… — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
“Yet he was a rather nice-looking young man, with crinkly russet eyes and crinkly red-brown hair, not to mention a chin that gave the… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
“And yet he had valid reasons to believe the world would care about how he looked…because the world did care.” — Skye Warren Copy Share Image
“He had lovely eyes, really—not assessing, at all, but big and dark and…waiting.” — Charlotte Stein Copy Share Image
“He was too handsome, too strong-willed, too wealthy, too daring, and otherwise not ideal.” — Becky Wade Copy Share Image
“He must have stood there for a long time, making a list of all the terrible things he had done—almost killinng me was one… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
“For a moment the man from London and the woman in mourning considered each other in silence, each gauging temperament from the slender evidence… — Charles Todd Copy Share Image
“He bent his head towards his shoulder and tried to look pitiful and humble, but for all that he was radiant with freshness and… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“He had good, open features and a confident air; his blue eyes were wide and watchful, but something about them seemed to hint that… — Sarah Brazytis Copy Share Image
“He was adventurer good-looking - you know, the muscular, rugged, "I get punched in the face a lot" type.” — Caitlen Rubino-Bradway Copy Share Image
“Only the Lisbon house remained dark, a tunnel, an emptiness, past our smoke and flames.” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“She had just started living like a grown-up and she'd never felt more vulnerable, frightened or confused in her life.” — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“The window was still open,” Mr Lisbon said. “I don’t think we’d ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not momentous enough.… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Within five minutes of the transfusion he declared her out of danger. Chucking her under the chin, he said, "What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets." And it was then Cecilia gave orally what was to be her only form of suicide note,… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share
“I don't approve of women driving, mind you. And now they get to vote!" He grumbled to himself. "Remember that play we saw ("The… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
“...The Presidential election has given me less anxiety than I myself could have imagined. The next administration will be a troublesome one, to whomsoever it falls, and our John has been too much worn to contend much longer with conflicting factions. I call him our John, because, when you were at the Cul de sac at Paris, he appeared to… — John Adams Copy Share
We should never forget that Hollywood was built by Europeans, and the old Jewish boys from Eastern Europe. — Maximilian Schell Copy Share Image
The deciphering of ancient scripts changed forever the way Europeans were able to imagine the story of humanity, destroying centuries of received authority about… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
The next humans to walk on the moon may be Chinese. Only China seems to have the resources, the dirigiste government, and the willingness… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out. — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“It takes no more research than a trip to almost any public library or college to show the incredibly lopsided coverage of slavery in the United States or in the Western Hemisphere, as compared to the meager writings on even larger number of Africans enslaved in the Islamic countries of the Middle East and North Africa, not to mention the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share
“The Europeans hate us because we’ve retired to live inside our advertisements, like hermits going into caves to contemplate. We sleep in symbolic bedrooms,… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table. — Dennis Ross Copy Share Image
“In Europe one gets used to doing nothing. You sit on your ass and whine all day. You get contaminated. You rot.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“What is the role of intellectuals in Europe? There's this debate in which all speakers do not appear to me to even be intellectuals.… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with… — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image