Dappled Shadows Quotes

#1. Fat green frogs, the eternally grinning type destined to be shellacked into bizarre poses while wearing mariachi hats and holding toy trumpets and guitars and then sold in tourist traps all over Mexico, jostled lazily in the dappled shadows.

Luis Alberto Urrea

#2. The summer night was settling upon the neighborhood like a dark lace veil, casting dappled shadows on the roofs and sidewalks and lawns.

Victoria Kahler

#3. Do not conform yourselves to this age but be transformed by the renewal of your mind,

Anonymous

#4. I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.

Narada Michael Walden

#5. Beyond the slumpstone wall lay a backyard, a swimming pool. Dappled with morning light and tree shadows, the water glimmered in shades of blue from sapphire to turquoise, as might a trove of jewels left by long-dead pirates who had sailed a sea since vanished.

Dean Koontz

#6. That swimming, sloping, elusive something about the dark-bluish tint of the iris which seemed still to retain the shadows it had absorbed of ancient, fabulous forests where there were more birds than tigers and more fruit than thorns, and where, in some dappled depth, man's mind had been born ...

Vladimir Nabokov

#7. My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.

Lillian Hellman

#8. I haven't had a gaffe or something that I've done that has caused me to fall in the polls.

Michele Bachmann

#9. The smells, the shadows, even the dappled pale trunks of the plane trees lifted my spirits

Donna Tartt

#10. While they drove past the garden the shadows of the bare trees often fell across the road and hid the brilliant moonlight, but as soon as they were past the fence, the snowy plain bathed in moonlight and motionless spread out before them glittering like diamonds and dappled with bluish shadows.

Leo Tolstoy

#11. It's definitely not the character who it is in the comics, I'll say that much.

James Gunn

#12. I could not take my eyes off her. It was as if she were performing some trick, some sort of unfolding. There was something raw and exposed about her, as if many things had already happened between us, as if time had leapt ahead and we were already lovers.

Lily King

#13. Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.

Samuel Richardson

#14. You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.

Jesse Ventura

#15. Teach love, for that is what you are.

George Eliot

#16. Human ties are the greatest distorters of reality because they tend to conceal man's worst selfish instincts.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#17. I never believed that India could win a medal in badminton because the competition is so tough.

Saina Nehwal

#18. I consider it equal injustice to set our heart against natural pleasures and to set our heart too much on them. We should neither pursue them, nor flee them; we should accept them.

Michel De Montaigne

#19. My blog is actually all self-photography unless it's a photo shoot.

Solange Knowles

#20. Back in the past metaphysical realisation needed only the will of realisation. Later realisation also needed initiation. Even later initiation already presupposed preparation. Today even preparation has to be prepared, but first of all a self-correction should take place.

Andras Laszlo

#21. A quarter-moon smeared a feverish glow on the marble slabs and dappled the trodden weeds that beleaguered them with a pale dewy leprosy; only the massy shadows which clustered around the trunks of the ancient oaks and beeches escaped its infection.

William Scott Home