De Quevedo Quotes

#1. Withdrawn into the peace of this desert, along with some books, few but wise, I live in conversation with the deceased, and listen to the dead with my eyes

Francisco De Quevedo

#2. We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

Francisco De Quevedo

#3. The end of a gun looks very big and very back when it's staring you in the face.

Lilith Saintcrow

#4. Colors are the smiles of nature.

Leigh Hunt

#5. Jillian followed. "Maybe, but don't worry, he's not my type. I'm trying to rehabilitate my uniform 'fetish' to strictly FedEx and UPS - bigger packages." Jackson

Jewel E. Ann

#6. Reading is listening to the dead with our eyes. (page 325, Reading in the Brain, Stanislas Dehaene, 2009)

Francisco De Quevedo

#7. Drama is what I did before 'Blossom.'

Mayim Bialik

#8. It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

Soren Kierkegaard

#9. I will be dust, but dust in love

Francisco De Quevedo

#10. The last thing I need is rest.

Paula Hawkins

#11. And taking her friend's hand, she put it on her breast, on that firm round covering of a woman's heart which the male often finds so satisfying that he makes no attempt to find what lies beneath it.

Guy De Maupassant

#12. Looking in the mirror is very strange; we see only what we choose to see, good or bad.

Bonnie Langford

#13. If your in pain,

Gayle Forman

#14. When I started out, I wanted to be the kind of artist who could play the CMA Music Festival and then turn around and play Bonnaroo, and I've managed to do both.

Kacey Musgraves

#15. People are running to and from class and I just want to yell, Slow down and wait for the world to catch up!

Jessica Sorensen

#16. Dear Reader, may God protect you from bad books, police and nagging, moon-faced, fair-haired women.

Francisco De Quevedo

#17. I think and hope there are far more people aware of the need to look after our future.

Robin Day

#18. In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called!

Francisco De Quevedo

#19. He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.

Francisco De Quevedo

#20. It was a palace, made entirely of gold, sitting on an island of silver snow at the very top of the world. East of the sun, and west of the moon.

Jessica Day George

#21. There are even more statues of Robert Burns than of any other figure in world literature. Indeed if we discount figures of religion, then only Christopher Columbus has more statues than he worldwide.

Len G. Murray

#22. I'm not fooled any more by an ill wind and a light that fails.

E.B. White