Asterisks Quotes

#1. Do we want blanks, asterisks and exclamation marks which people can fill in with their own imaginations, or are we prepared and strong enough to tolerate, even if we do not approve, the strong Anglo-Saxon, realistic and vivid language?

John Mortimer

#2. Metaphor for the night sky: a trillion asterisks and no explanations.

Robert Breault

#3. We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.

W. Somerset Maugham

#4. When the script was written, it was sent to me with asterisks marking where he felt a song would be appropriate. Before the film was shot, the score was written. I made a demo of it, so they lived with the music as they were making the film.

Alan Price

#5. It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.

James Payn

#6. I will love you with too many commas, but never any asterisks.

Sarah Kay

#7. Long deep lines,
chapters carved
in his face by age,
question marks,
mysterious tales,
asterisks,
all that the sirens had forgot
in the far-reaching
solitude of his soul,
all that fell from the
starry sky,
was traced in his
face.

Pablo Neruda

#8. Look, the world is everywhere: satellites, end tables, the pink and white poinsettias outside the church; reunions and degrees. All those radiant asterisks ... Soon it will all make sense.

Terrance Hayes

#9. Damn, the good words are all asterisked!"

"The men only understand the asterisks. My worry is if they understand the rest!

Pawan Mishra

#10. Well when I write my book, and tell the tale of my adventures
all these little stars that shake out of my cloak
I must save those to use for asterisks!

Edmond Rostand

#11. The flakes stuck in my eyelashes. They fell on my sleeves. Huge. Flowers and stars. They fell onto each other, held their shapes, became small piles of perfect asterisks and blooms tumbled together in their discrete geometries like children's blocks.

Peter Heller

#12. As dawn leaks into the sky it edits out the stars like excess punctuation marks, deleting asterisks and periods, commas, and semi-colons, leaving only unhinged thoughts rotating and pivoting, and unsecured words.

Ann Zwinger

#13. The dedication of passwords was the new fellowship of marriage. To each other, couples had become furtive asterisks

Manu Joseph

#14. You and I
We do not talk anymore
And all our asterisks
Are turning
Into flowers.

Tita Lacambra-Ayala

#15. Love is like a rain bow can be seen in many different colors

Abby Taylor

#16. Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit.

Nhat Hanh

#17. If you are an adventurer, you will not be interested in where the road goes or where the road ends; you just keep going!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. Some people live life and others talk about it.

Rita Mae Brown

#19. Monogamous romantic commitment, like infallible lifelong attraction to only men or only women, is surely a minority tendency expediently elevated to a general social principle

Hannah Black

#20. Omitting the truth is its own kind of lie.

Ted Sanders

#21. You do need to edit yourself as you shoot because you have fewer options in a smaller movie. In other words, when I'm shooting a big movie, and I got an 85 day shooting schedule or more, then I'm saying I have enough time to shoot option A and B and C and D for every scene.

David Twohy

#22. With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

Doris Lessing

#23. I want to be part of the resurgence of things that are tangible, beautiful and soulful, rather than just give in to the digital age. But when I talk to people about this they just say, 'Yeah, I know what you mean,' and stare at their mobiles.

Jack White

#24. Everybody across this country knows that the tsunami of drugs is - is threatening their very families.

John Kasich