Desiccated Quotes

#1. The reading rooms were large and quiet. Their windows were filmed in dust and desiccated insects, and seemed to age the light falling across the communal tables and the volumes in scores of languages.

China Mieville

#2. A person's work allows their character to form and provides a creative outlet for their inner world of imaginative thoughts and creative impulses. A person whom fails to find suitable work that allows their soul room to grow will quickly begin eroding into a withered and desiccated being.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#3. What was the use of her being alive? Her heart was some desiccated thing: a prune, a fossil, a piece of clinker. Her mouth might as well be filled with ashes. It was all utterly hopeless and futile ...

Sarah Waters

#4. His soul, it seemed to him, was more than empty. It was desiccated, reduced to the powder of its substance and now in danger of being blown away by the first puff of the dawn wind that presaged the sun.

Randy Attwood

#5. Some critics are emotionally desiccated, personally about as attractive as a year-old peach in a single girl's refrigerator.

Mel Brooks

#6. He noticed that a bedraggled and desiccated pink poppy was growing out of a crack where the wall of the teacher's house intersected with the cobbles of the street.

Louis De Bernieres

#7. The mirror is the mother dew, the book of desiccated twilights, echo become flesh.

Federico Garcia Lorca

#8. But if she'd realized that nine desiccated zombie nymphs would be waiting for her, she never would have come down here.

Rick Riordan

#9. All of them were shriveled, desiccated, bone-thin and skeletal, every jaw cruelly broken, opening and closing in mute entreaty, the teeth clacking together like macabre wind chimes as they pendulated in the lurching trees.

Edward M. Erdelac

#10. It was spring, the part of spring where the bursting is done, the held-in pressures of desiccated sap-veins and gum-sealed buds are gone, and all the world's in a rush to be beautiful.

Theodore Sturgeon

#11. I know that the right kind of political leader for the Labour Party is a desiccated calculating machine.

Aneurin Bevan

#12. presentation, she looked drawn, as old as the limestone hills behind her property. Her facial skin was marbled, hair greying at the roots. She had grown frail, as though she might disintegrate at the first touch; she was a desiccated, vulnerable shadow of her former self and it was hard to

Carol Drinkwater

#13. Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks. There is something strange about them, at once vivid and secret, like flowers traced in fire in the phantasmal garden of a witch.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#14. Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind of likes my bullshit.)

Gillian Flynn

#15. You know, I've carried a weapon for 10 years, never shot anybody, never robbed anybody. It has saved my life twice, but I know they're not toys. I practice with firearms, I enjoy shooting, it's a hobby of mine and I have a healthy respect for them.

Luke Scott

#16. Nothing stands between man and his highest ideals and every desire of his heart, but doubt and fear.

Florence Scovel Shinn

#17. Profound minds are the most likely to think lightly of the resources of human reason, and it is the superficial thinker who is generally strongest in every kind of unbelief.

Humphry Davy

#18. I tend to be much more in the present and my emotions are simpler. I can be happy, I can be sad, I can be depressed, but there's a complexity that I don't have. I don't brood the same way. Fear is my main emotion.

Temple Grandin

#19. In a friendship, especially in a friendship between two young boys, you are allowed to inflict a certain amount of pain. This is even expected. But you must cause no serious injury; you must never, under any circumstances, leave wounds that will result in permanent scars.

Joe Hill

#20. My primary goal of hacking was the intellectual curiosity, the seduction of adventure.

Kevin Mitnick

#21. I thought of summer as the living time; the rest of the year was the backward time, the writing time

Gabrielle Zevin

#22. The instructions of the teacher consist then merely in a hint, a touch-enough to give a start to the child. The rest develops of itself.

Maria Montessori

#23. Music is silence, which in dreaming begins to sound

Max Picard

#24. You can make a thousand different movies about the same subject.

Pedro Almodovar

#25. There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#26. There is not a single true chess-player in the world whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and familiar words as 'gambit games'.

David Bronstein