Quote by Toni Morrison Download Open image ““Nuns go by as quiet as lust, and drunken men with sober eyes sing in the lobby of the Greek hotel.”” — Toni Morrison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Stop thinking that nuns are sweet and kind like Maria in The Sound of Music. That's just a movie. Think of the evil old… — Viola Canales Copy Share Image
“Here is the faithful night, the cool night which I called for amid the noise of lights, drink and the tumult of desire.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“You see, you and I are the only people here who walk quite quietly and peaceably on solid ground. The nuns walk in heaven… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It is I who drink lonely Drinks at twelve, midnight, in hotels of strange towns, It is I who laugh, it is I who… — Kamala Das Copy Share Image
“The women are always the whores; the priests are always the good men who were led astray.” — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“You were drunk. I wanted to hear the words when you were of sound mind. Women get drunk all the time and confess their… — Jodi Ellen Malpas Copy Share Image
“Around the outside of the room other beautiful women wearing little or nothing at all flitted between the infatuated, intoxicated men, sometimes luring them… — R.D. Ronald Copy Share Image
“Devils and whores. It is bad luck to talk of such things without a drink in your hand.” — David Krae Copy Share Image
“Make me drunk. Make me drunk, Beloved. I crave your drink. Break these thought chains and tear these garments. I crave your nakedness. I’m speaking to you. I’m speaking to you, Beloved Take me to the depths of your ocean. I’m thirsting for your drink. I have followed the scent of your intoxicating perfume and having arrived at this altar,… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share
“One of the rarest and most beautiful things in this world is to meet someone who has the ability to intoxicate you. Every moment… — Richie Singh Copy Share Image
“I moaned like a whore in church. To be fair, I’d never actually heard a whore moan in church, but I had a feeling… — Alice Clayton Copy Share Image
“Drunk am I with very love and awe; 'Twas ever thus with veritable seers-- Too drunk with joy to tell us what they saw.” — Omar Khayyám Copy Share
Perhaps that's what all human relationships boiled down to: Would you save my life? or would you take it? — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning. For loneliness assumed the absence of other people, and the solitude she found in that desperate terrain had never admitted the possibility of other people. She wept then. Tears for the deaths of the… — Toni Morrison Copy Share
If you can't count, they can cheat you. If you can't read, they can beat you. — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“You looked at them and wondered why the were so ugly; you looked closely and could not find the source. Then you realized that… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
All she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. And she had never named him. Had called him "my parrot" all these years. "My parrot." "Love you. "Love you." Did the dogs get him? Or did he get the message - that she said, "My parrot" and he… — Toni Morrison Copy Share
For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Hate does that. Burns off everything but itself, so whatever your grievance is, your face looks just like your enemy's.” — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“You know how a star is supposed to twinkle? We say twinkle because that is how it looks, but when a star feels itself, it’s not a twinkle, it’s more like a throb. Star throbs. Over and over and over. Like this. Stars just throb and throb and throb and sometimes, when they can’t throb anymore, when they can’t hold… — Toni Morrison Copy Share