Chance Quote by John Harington

“He felt like a man whose fever had broken, flush with the euphoria of the first, tenuous return of strength—still weak, but buoyant with…

— Gaelen Foley

“I would learn quickly after meeting this well dressed man, that no matter how bad your circumstance, it could always deteriorate, that Hell itself…

— Lily White

Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked,…

— Herman Melville

God's the seamstress that tailor-fitted my pain.

— Curtis Jackson

“The room was filled with deep, raucous sighs, sudden sobs, silent floods of tears. The horrified musician stopped,and going up to the man whose…

— Charles Baudelaire

“No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusions about himself. The distaste, the absence of glamour, extend…

— Joseph Conrad

“tailor, if he did not drink and attended to his business, could earn more money than a clerk or a curate, while much less…

— Samuel Butler

Many a man has risen to eminence under the powerful reaction of his mind in fierce counter-agency to the scorn of the unworthy, daily…

— Thomas de Quincey

“He was sick, sick from the long dangerous trip he had taken, sick from all the medicine —the pills, the inoculations, the inhaled gases…

— Walter Tevis

“Belghazi arrived early that evening. I was enjoying a cocktail with Keiko in the lobby, where I had a view of the registration desk,…

— Barry Eisler

“Rather, he found himself enchanted with examples of simple human error, mundane malfunctions and mechanical glitches. The sheer variety of things that could and…

— Wendy Brenner

“The art of presenting oneself, he had once told Sybil, lies in creating an immediate shock which is countered by a slow retreat into…

— Timothy Findley