Affinity Quote by Patricia Highsmith Download Open image “The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself.” — Patricia Highsmith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affinity Drawing Night Oneself Time
The night ... it is filled with bestial watchmen, trammeling the extremities and the interstices of the timeless city, portents fallen, constellated deities plummeting… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Night had come—night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The daylight schooled the senses and the night-time developed the wits, stretched the imagination, sharpened fantasy, hammered home the memory and altered the whole… — Fynn Copy Share Image
“It was the time of night that precedes dawn and is without perspective or reason. It was the hour when regret and fear overwhelm… — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
“The late evening is the time of times. Then with that unearthly beauty before one it is not hard to realise how far one… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
Nighttime to some, a brief interlude. To others, the fear of solitude. — The Moody Blues Copy Share Image
'The Night Following' is very interior; the events are, to a large degree, mental events. — Morag Joss Copy Share Image
“Thinking no more about it, he stepped off into that cool space, that fast descent to her, with nothing in his mind but a… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes. — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.” — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness. — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“He felt he was about to experience again some ancient, delicious childhood moment that the steam calliope's sour hollowness, the stitching hurdy-gurdy accompaniment, and… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“It was a kind of arrogance, perhaps, to believe so in one's destiny. But, on the other hand, who could be more genuinely humble… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“Dusk was falling quickly. It was just after 7 P.M., and the month was October.” — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?” — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“Happiness was like a green vine spreading through her, stretching fine tendrils, bearing flowers through her flesh. She had a vision of a pale-white… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
“That's exactly where you're wrong! Any kind of person can murder. Purely circumstances and not a thing to do with temperament! People get so… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
I have an affinity with the Leicester community and want the best for them. — Mark Morrison Copy Share Image
There certainly is an affinity between a person and his work, but it is not easy to define what this affinity is, and on… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
This formula of Love is universal; all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the rest -… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Your brain may give birth to any technology, but other brains will decide whether the technology thrives. The number of possible technologies is infinite,… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
I receive huge support from Irish and British sports fans alike and it is greatly appreciated. Likewise I feel I have a great affinity… — Rory McIlroy Copy Share Image
Savages have often been likened to children, and the comparison is not only correct but also highly instructive. Many naturalists consider that the early… — John Lubbock Copy Share Image
My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses,… — David Crosby Copy Share Image
Gay men are perfect men for girls who are tough. They're not threatened by strong women, and they're usually very in touch with their… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress, by his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I've got German, Cornish and Scottish ancestry. It might help explain my affinity for forests, the sea, and fatty foods. — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that… — Princess Diana Copy Share Image
The affinity of blood or pure haemoglobins for oxygen is a complex phenomenon, depending upon a number of conditions, the most important of which… — August Krogh Copy Share Image
