Appraisingly Quotes

#1. I sat up then, looking at him appraisingly, knowing that was the moment I could stop everything if I wanted to. "Maybe you should go," I whispered, as I ran my hand through his hair slowly.
"Maybe I should stay," he said, bringing his lips to mine again.

Monica Alexander

#2. Finally turning his head, he regarded me appraisingly, with contempt so thick that I expected to hear it drizzle to the floor with a spattering sound.

Dean Koontz

#3. Oscar sat back and looked at me appraisingly. "I need to think. And to think I must have oysters and champagne.

Gyles Brandreth

#4. I remember when we did our first read-through, Sonny [Bono] looks at the script and he goes, 'Okay, I'll see you guys later. Chai-ay-oh!' And I said, 'It's ciao! Aren't you Italian? C-i-a-o doesn't spell chai-ay-oh.' [Laughs.] Sonny's dead, so he won't be embarrassed if I tell that story.

Teri Garr

#5. It is an undoubted truth, that the less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. One yawns, one procrastinates, one can do it when one will, and therefore one seldom does it at all.

Lord Chesterfield

#6. I hate when she calls me that name but once again my cock twitches. She's furious. And that? I fucking love it.

J.M. Darhower

#7. The difference of a single day is perceptible. Vegetables can only be tasted in perfection, gathered the same day.

John Pintard

#8. I believe that that foolish man of Galilee, Jesus Christ, had something to tell us, to tell me. Not considering his existence here, I would immediately go into despair. Immediately. And forgetting him, I would first despair of the institutional church and its hierarchy, and only later, of the Jews.

Elias Chacour

#9. His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.

Elisabeth Elliot

#10. Give me some sugar.

Rachel Gibson

#11. You are there with me, aren't you? I and my silences keep talking about you.

Avijeet Das

#12. To YoYo Ma: You playing is the best argument I've ever heard for the existence of God, because I don't really believe a human alone can do this.

Steve Jobs

#13. People complain that chefs aren't at their restaurants anymore, but I don't think that's the case at all. You see them on TV and you assume they're not working but they are.

Michael Symon

#14. When people start thinking of you more as a persona, they are less inclined to allow you to move into different areas. Sometimes they're wrong. Sometimes they're just very stereotypical or restricted in their own thinking of what they'll allow you to do.

Robert Redford

#15. And the Middle East, well, I think we can all see what we've made there. What a hand we've had in the making of our own demise. How masterful. And the world will continue to be melted by a sun we've crossed terribly with our progress.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#16. Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground, With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound.

Sarah Helen Whitman

#17. I don't cry because we've been separated by distance, and for a matter of years. Why? Because for as long as we share the same sky and breathe the same air, we're still together.

Donna Lynn Hope