Character Quote by John Cheever Download Open image ““The moral bottom had dropped out of my world without changing a mote of sunlight.”” — John Cheever ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character
“I went back to my own innocent little chores and sat in my office as the fall drew imperceptibly on and the earth leaned… — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“The sun kept on with its slipping away, and I thought how many small good things in the world might be resting on the… — Carol Rifka Brunt Copy Share Image
“The bottom fell out of my stomach. It was like putting a foot wrong on a frozen creek, the crack of ice, and sudden… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
“I remember arguing that moral greatness had little meaning without action to effect the moral end.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“The world would be a better place if more people went apeshit over things like sunshine. The” — Kim Holden Copy Share Image
“The world is filled with moralizers who forget to sweep in front of their own doors.” — Jean-Pierre Alaux Copy Share Image
“That's what happens when you fall. Everything that was bright about you becomes dark. As brilliant as you once were, that's how evil you… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“There’s no good that comes from looking on the downside. You’ll slide off the earth unhappy. But if you look on the bright side,… — Kerri Ann Copy Share Image
“...the world was trying to change its old face and show its underbelly of earth and roots.” — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost man. One… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“She perceived vaguely the pitiful corruption of the adult world; how cruel and frail it was, like a worn piece of burlap, patched with… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“I dream that someone in space says to me: So let us rush, then, to see the world. It is shaped like an egg,… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
I don't like to see all my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coats and radios and slipcovers. — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
At my back I hear the word-"homosexual"-and it seems to split my world in two… It is ignorance, our ignorance of one another, that… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
One would never have guessed that the world had such a capacity for genuine grief. The most we can do is exploit our memories… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“His stepmother -wearing a nightgown for comfort and a flowered hat for looks- had spent her days sitting in their parlor window in Baltimore… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house. Courage tastes of blood. Stand up straight. Admire the world.… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
