Boots Quote by Voltaire

“This is what’s happening: together we are descending the stairs of the heart, which lead to the sources. (It is a secret staircase. I…

— Hélène Cixous

She pushed the gardener away and called for them. In her sleep she had seen love. It was poisoning. It was possessing. Devouring. Or…

— Francesca Lia Block

You probably think that being a guest in your aunt's house I would hesitate to butter you all over the front lawn and dance…

— Anonymous

“But having mastered the art of descending the stairs to a gathering of admirers, she had yet to master the art of ascending the…

— Amor Towles

The bristling eyebrows shot up in mock surprise. Mesmerized. the boy watched them disappear under the hanging white thatch of hair. There, almost coyly,…

— Jonathan Stroud

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.

— Winston Churchill

...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.

— Jim Morrison

This is what our yoga practice is trying to accomplish. Not white light descending from heaven and engulfing you, not energy released from the…

— Bryan Kest

And violence is impractical, because the old eye for an eye philosophy ends up leaving everybody blind .. It is immoral because it is…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Fundamentalists believe that we don't believe in anything. In their view of the world, they are in possession of absolute certainties, while we are…

— Salman Rushdie

“You realize the speed at which you are going to move while ascending. You can reckon the speed at which you were going while…

— Neelam Saxena Chandra

My left descending septal branch artery decided to close without consultation with any of my other organs. It happened on Saint Patrick's Day, 1978.

— George Carlin