Ideas Quote by Robert Brustein

“Philippe liked to daydream with his eyes wide open and I could often tell from looking at the changing intensity of the colours reflected…

— Myriam J.A. Chancy

“In the castle of Benwick, the French boy was looking at his face in the polished surface of a kettle-hat. It flashed in the…

— T.H. White

“As he watched her, Colin was visited by the strangest feeling, unfurling warm and buttery inside him. It was a sense of privilege and…

— Tessa Dare

“action of the brain. It seemed easy to me. I never once mistook his finger for the bay. I'll bet that if he had…

— O. Henry

“Olivier took a deep breath, then turned and bowed in farewell. Gersonides nodded in return, then thought of something. "The manuscript you brought me,…

— Iain Pears

“And when all the world came back And the light crept up between the shutters, And you heard the sparrows in the gutters, You…

— T.S. Eliot

“Patterns that Arthur knew, rough blobby shapes that were as familiar to him as the shapes of words, part of the furniture of his…

— Douglas Adams

“Alan Campbell opened one eye. From somewhere in remote distances, muffled beyond sight or sound, his soul crawled back painfully, through subterranean corridors, up…

— John Dickson Carr

“It had begun to be present to him after the first fortnight, it had broken out with the oddest abruptness, this particular wanton wonderment:…

— Henry James

He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very…

— Leo Tolstoy

“For the first time she could see a man's head naked of its skull. Saw the cunning thoughts race in and out through the…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“It was no longer an unexplained blip on his radar. There was now something solid there, and it needed to be explained and understood”

— Michael Connelly