Biblical Proportions Quotes

#1. How can the world end in a giant fury of biblical proportions yet still leave room for embarrassment?

Susan Ee

#2. Those were people launched into an exodus of biblical proportions, pushed only by the will to survive; beings weighed down with an enormous list of frustrations and tangible losses with gazes from which even dignity had disappeared.

Leonardo Padura

#3. How many times have you been on the freeway and had someone fly by you at 100 mph then end up two cars ahead of you at the off ramp? What's the point?

Mark Harmon

#4. My books depend on someone in danger, putting pieces together and figuring things out. They do a lot of thinking, and that gets lost in the movie.

Stephen King

#5. Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

George Santayana

#6. I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.

Radha Mitchell

#7. None of us were kidding when we said we wanted to have enough kids to make a Quidditch team, were we?

G. Norman Lippert

#8. One might think that a boy who was out in the snow for so long would get cold, but Max was not. He was warm, partly because he had on many layers, and partly because boys who are part wolf and part wind do not get cold.

Dave Eggers

#9. Shabbat is a day of rest, of mental scrutiny and of balance. Without it the workdays are insipid.

Hayim Nahman Bialik

#10. To work - to work! It is such infinite delight to know that we still have the best things to do.

Katherine Mansfield

#11. A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now heart. She is there as one, a unity complete and unified.

Pearl S. Buck

#12. It's great to watch someone get the most out of what they can do, whether they're a beautiful performer or just a really gritty performer. It's something to behold.

John Turturro

#13. Three-quarters of the expenditure of wit and the lies told out of vanity that have been squandered since the world began by people who in doing so merely diminish themselves have been squandered on inferiors.

Marcel Proust

#14. Desperation brings out the darkness in everyone, the man said with shrug

Marie Lu