Aspidistra Quotes

#1. You're dishonoured, somehow. You've sinned. Sinned against the aspidistra."
"You talk a great deal about aspidistras," said Ravelston.
"They're a dashed important subject," said Gordon.

George Orwell

#2. His eye fell upon the aspidistra. Two years he had inhabited this vile room; two mortal years in which nothing had been accomplished.

George Orwell

#3. She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#4. I guess you are all right. That was bad luck all right. Plenty bad luck.

Ernest Hemingway,

#5. The melon of Castile is for self abuse. The melon of Valencia for eating.

Ernest Hemingway,

#6. Forth, and fear no darkness! Arise! Arise, Riders of Theoden! Spears shall be shaken,swords shall be splintered! A sword day ... a red day ... ere the sun rises! Ride now! ... Ride now! ... Ride! Ride to ruin and the world's ending! Death! "Death!" Death! "Death!" DEATH! "Death!" Forth, Eorlingas!!

J.R.R. Tolkien

#7. When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom.

Trisha Yearwood

#8. My spirit is simply rekindled with each one of your words.

Margaret Aranda

#9. Jews, listen to me,' she cried. I see a fire! I see flames, huge flames.

Elie Wiesel

#10. If we could only learn to trust one another
Tagalogs trusting Ilokanos, Pampangos trusting Tagalogs.
-The Cripple

F. Sionil Jose

#11. Gordon watched them go. They were just by-products . The throw-outs of the money-god. All over London, by tens of thousands, draggled old beasts of that description: creeping like unclean beetles to the grave.

George Orwell

#12. True love is when you relish the orange she eats.

Tapan Ghosh

#13. Silence was the first prayer I learned to trust ...

Patricia Hampl

#14. There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress.

Chris Van Allsburg