Desolation Sound Quotes

#1. A name could be either a ghost or a portent depending on which side of time you were standing. The name Whaletown had become a mere specter of the past, a crepuscular Pacific shimmer, but the name Desolation Sound still hovered in the liminal space and felt to her both oracular and haunted.

Ruth Ozeki

#2. Empty, empty, empty; silent, silent, silent. The room was a shell, singing of what was before time was; a vase stood in the heart of the house, alabaster, smooth, cold, holding the still, distilled essence of emptiness, silence.

Virginia Woolf

#3. And who else could I send? Only Vimes could go to Uberwald.

Terry Pratchett

#4. A pure crystal stream sprang laughing in the midst of desolation......

Sue Bridgwater

#5. I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.

Caroline Kennedy

#6. The only way to deliver to the people who are achieving is to not burden them with the people who are not achieving.

James C. Collins

#7. Like the grasses showing tender faces to each other, thus should we do, for this was the wish of the Grandfathers of the World.

Black Elk

#8. And that sweet city with her dreaming spires,
She needs not June for beauty's heightening ...

Matthew Arnold

#9. When you can carry five full dinner platters on your left arm, you should be able to vote, even if you're not eighteen.

Joan Bauer

#10. Don't squander precious ignorance by researching it away.

Richard Dawkins

#11. The only sound that's left after the ambulances go is Cinderella sweeping up on Desolation Row.

Bob Dylan

#12. I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

Andrew Lincoln

#13. He dusted the dough with cumin and coriander and salt before he slid the loaves into the oven on flat wooden boards. Perhaps most important,

Alice Hoffman

#14. Truth is the lie you once told returning to haunt you

Dermot Healy

#15. I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.

Carmen Electra