Top 30 Best Quicksilver Quotes
#1. Vampires, fey folk, werewolves, Shadowhunters, and demons - these things made sense to Magnus. But the mundane world - it seemed to have no pattern, no form. Their quicksilver politics. Their short lives ...
Cassandra Clare
#2. They used to call me Quicksilver," he whispered, smiling hollowly. "Fastest hands in the world." Then the smile vanished. his eyes flashed. And, like a silver of deadly mercury, he attacked ...
Darren Shan
#3. Like a couple of peasants huddled together in the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Jack and Eliza performed their role in the Mass and then departed, leaving no sign that they'd ever been there, save perhaps for an evanescent ripple in the coursing tide of quicksilver.
Neal Stephenson
#4. She had made Matthew want to smile. With her luminous skin, her exotic cinnamon-colored eyes and quicksilver expressions, Daisy Bowman seemed to have come from an enchanted forest populated with mythical creatures.
Lisa Kleypas
#5. A politician is like quicksilver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under it.
Austin O'Malley
#6. I've given up the looking glass; quicksilver has no sense of tact.
James Goldman
#7. Love is a quicksilver word; though you see plainly where it is, you have only to put your finger on it to find that it is not there but someplace else.
Morton Hunt
#8. Where do you wanna belong?" I half whispered. His expression changed with quicksilver speed, amusement dancing in his eyes. "Anywhere they don't want me."
-Hardy Cateses & Liberty Jones
Lisa Kleypas
#9. To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#10. These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.
Pat Conroy
#11. The quicksilver of creativity will not be solidified by legal pronouncement; it will necessarily flow into new and sometimes frightening fields.
Mathew Tobriner
#12. This is fantastically squalid," said Milo. "We may never get out of here alive.
R. J. Anderson
#13. Albertus [Magnus] ... debased the doctrine of Aristotle with the itch of the chemists flowing with the bloody flux of quicksilver and the stench of sulphur.
Georgius Agricola
#14. We are stratified creatures, creatures full of abysses, with a soul of inconstant quicksilver, with a mind whose color and shape change as in a kaleidoscope that is constantly shaken.
Pascal Mercier
#15. Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense, it's improvised, it's almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know so little about it. It's too inspired and quicksilver a thing to be clearly understood. Two people make a blur.
Don DeLillo
#16. No, but I'm Quicksilver's friend," Sly Boots replied, "and I won't let her do this alone." Lars
Claire Legrand
#17. Roses are red violets are blue, God made me pretty, what happened to you?
Rocky Quicksilver
#18. A long shaft of light came down from the sun behind the clouds and fell on the rearing, striking horses so that Thowra was the glittering foam on a waterfall, was quicksilver held for a dazzling moment in the shape of a horse, but a horse that was never still
Elyne Mitchell
#20. Quicksilver is used for many purposes; without it, neither silver nor brass can be properly gilt.
Vitruvius
#21. But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures.
Marc Chagall
#22. Music is quicksilver, gossamer; careers are measured in butterfly lifetimes.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#23. I would say that whatever happens down the line, that Quicksilver vanishes from the movies, I don't know. At this point it is the beginning of him coming into the group and being a force that fights evil. It's pretty sweet.
Evan Peters
#24. Tranquility is like quicksilver. The harder you grab for it, the less likely you will grasp it.
Bernard Williams
#25. Our emotions are ever-changing and infinitely varied, but the words with which we describe them are fixed and rigid. Our life is like quicksilver, our vocabulary like steel. Sometimes a consummate poet succeeds in rendering the quality of life in words. For the rest of us, this is not possible.
Laura Huxley
#26. But the huge bowl of the sky remains untracked: no zeppelins, no bombers, no superhuman paratroopers, just the last songbirds returning from their winter homes, and the quicksilver winds of spring transmuting into the heavier, greener breezes of summer.
Anthony Doerr
#27. Time is passing : not leaden stepping
But sprinting on winged feet,
Quick silver slipping by.
Richard L. Ratliff
#28. Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.
Dorothy Parker
#29. Every director's so different. Everybody has their own modus operandi and I love getting to know different directors in the way they work. David O. Russell is very exciting to be with because he's got a mind like quicksilver.
Jacki Weaver
#30. I don't know how to be anything but pretend," I replied, and it ached in me how true that really was. "But if I could be real, I'd be real for you.
R. J. Anderson
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