Arabesques Quotes

#1. Like strange mechanical grotesques,
Making fantastic arabesques,
The shadows raced across the blind.

Oscar Wilde

#2. If we look at the works of JS Bach ... on each page we discover things which we thought were born only yesterday, from delightful arabesques to an overflowing of religious feeling greater than anything we have since discovered.

Claude Debussy

#3. All those little congruences and arabesques you prepared with such delicate anticipatory pleasure are gobbled up as if by pigs at a pastry cart.

John Updike

#4. [ ... ] marriage is one thing, and love is another ... You need to have a solid canvas; nobody stops you to weave the arabesques ...

Andre Maurois

#5. Within the immense ocean of galaxies and stars we are in a remote corner; amidst the infinite arabesques of forms which constitute reality we are merely a flourish among innumerably many such flourishes.

Carlo Rovelli

#6. The three heads of God were sundered from existence. Who shall say that this was accident? And likewise, who shall say that accidents be not but arabesques within some wider figure? Of this nothing is known.

Austin Osman Spare

#7. That was a fine story," I told her, "one of the best that I've ever heard." "I had to live it," she replied, "and it is far better to hear such stories than to live them, I promise you, though it ended so happily.

Gene Wolfe

#8. The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!

Gary Zukav

#9. One of my few virtues - I don't have a lot of them - would be a deep sense of curiosity. I'm interested in how other people live in other places; I'm interested in other cultures.

Anthony Bourdain

#10. I even fold this mans underwear and I like it!

Alex Riley

#11. It is amazing that when someone else spouts the nonsense you yourself believe you can readily perceive it as nonsense

Philip K. Dick

#12. The nature of the presidency is that sometimes you don't choose which challenges come to your desk. You do decide how to respond.

George W. Bush

#13. You can tell when Iraqis are getting upset because, like Italians we start talking with our hands.

Wafaa Bilal