Quote by Tony Horwitz Download Open image ““Hung be the Heavens in Scarlet”” — Tony Horwitz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“It seemed to him that there was a scarlet thread running through the fabric of life, one that joined events across the years, piercing… — Douglas Wynne Copy Share Image
“... the scarlet thread,the red clay from which we were made, runs in tiny streams through all our veins, reminding us of where we… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
“Somebody had slit open the leaden, fat underbelly of the heavens and its blood poured earthward. It fell and became a rain that washed… — Brian James Freeman Copy Share Image
“...he had a second batch of recalcitrant friars to be dispatched to Tyburn, to be slit up and gralloched by the hangman. They were… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“exiled spirits, red as the spotless toe of a seraph spread with scarlet by the shame of rumpled dawns” — Stéphane Mallarmé Copy Share Image
“Henry James rhymed Fellowship with the gesture of biting a neglected apple, and Ovid a scarlet curtain with the skin of Atalanta.” — Hugh Kenner Copy Share Image
“It was a strange room, the door hanging off its hinges, and yet a telephone. But its last occupant was a harlot, long past… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
“He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“In the past I wanted to be hung. It was worth while being hung to be a hero, seeing that life was not really… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
“...and then she was lying naked beneath the rain and the storm, the angry heavens and Simon of Navarre's golden eyes.” — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
“I He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It's sad to wander about the graveyard of my tired memory, where all hurts have been forgiven, where every sin has been more than… — Teffi Copy Share Image
“I came here from Kansas,” he announced to his captive. “This is a slave state. I want to free all the Negroes in this… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
During a mock battle attended by President Warren Harding in 1921, Marine Corps General Smedley D. Butler exhumed the arm [of Stonewall Jackson; he… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“The way I see it," King said, "your great-grandfather fought and died because he believed my great-grandfather should stay a slave. I'm supposed to… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“I asked him if he thought “there” was better than “here.” “Not better,” he said. “I mean, my great-great-grandpap got his leg shot off.… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“When the singing ended, I chatted with others in my pew, including a tall, aristocratic-looking man with pomaded gray hair. I told him about… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“You asked how I'd define prejudice. That's it. Making assumptions about people you've never met.” — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
I couldn't think of another city in the world that lined its streets with stone leviathans honoring failed rebels against the state. — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“Cook,” the historian Bernard Smith speculates, “increasingly realised that wherever he went he was spreading the curses much more liberally than the benefits of… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“My life has been of but little worth mostly fild [sic] up with vanity.” — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
Egyptians undergo an odd personality change behind the wheel of a car. In every other setting, aggression and impatience are frowned upon. The unofficial… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
“At one stop in New Zealand, an Englishman bartered for sex. He was presented with a boy; when he complained, he was presented with… — Tony Horwitz Copy Share Image
