Disused Quotes

#1. London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases ... that was very interesting.

Ruth Rendell

#2. When wombats do inspire/I strike my disused lyre

Christina Rossetti

#3. One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good.

Giorgio Agamben

#4. The concierge was a snapper who was over the hill and down a disused mine-shaft. Her hair was every bit as natural as a parade goose-stepping down the Wilhelmstrasse, and she'd evidently been wearing a boxing-glove when she's applied the crimson lipstick to her paperclip of a mouth.

Philip Kerr

#5. He followed, stamping angrily through the disused lots and inner-city disaster areas of his subconscious.

Terry Pratchett

#6. The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins on a subordinate clause or a nasty bit of subjunctive.

Robertson Davies

#7. As she made her way back to the tiny white van she listened to her own breathing and felt her own heart thumping wildly. She had no idea where she had found the courage, but it had been there, like the water at the bottom of a disused quarry
unfathomably deep.

Alexander McCall Smith

#8. Thousands of miles away, in a crowded theater that thunders with applause for the man onstage, hidden in the shadows formed between disused pieces of scenery backstage, Celia Bowen curls herself into a ball and cries.

Erin Morgenstern

#9. In a revolutionary epoch, sometimes men taste every novelty, sicken of them all, and return to ancient principles so long disused that they seem refreshingly hearty when they are rediscovered.

Russell Kirk

#10. It may be that I shall find it good to get outside of my body - to cast it off like a disused garment. But I shall not cease to work! I shall inspire men everywhere, until the world shall know that it is one with God.

Swami Vivekananda

#11. If only
you could have witnessed how
much I have changed: sit alone
in a disused theatre and feel what
I have felt, see how the world has
transformed me, like the metamorphosis
of a caterpillar.

Kiera Woodhull

#12. As any custom is disused, the words that expressed it must perish with it; as any opinion grows popular, it will innovate speech in the same proportion as it alters practice.

Samuel Johnson

#13. My hands are out of practice, my eyes disused. Most of what I do is drawing, because the preparation of the surface, the laborious underpainting and detailed concentration ... are too much for me. I have lost confidence: perhaps all I will ever be is what I am now.

Margaret Atwood

#14. The landlord was trying to explain that there were a great many English people in his house, all fighting duels or having hysterics.

Georgette Heyer

#15. I don't drink water. Have you seen the way it rusts pipes?

W.C. Fields

#16. Hollywood can be an ugly place and it can do ugly things to you.

Kelli Garner

#17. In the current era, to take adjustments in worldly interactions is knowledge (Gnan). One is to adjust to 'disadjustments'.

Dada Bhagwan

#18. An older generation, chastened by one depression, is afraid to be optimistic; and a younger generation, accustomed to security, is inexperienced at being pessimistic.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#19. Writer's block is real. It happens. Some days you sit down at the
old typewriter, put your fingers on the keys, and nothing pops
into your head. Blanko. Nada. El nothingissimo. What you do
when this happens is what separates you from the one-of-thesedays-
I'm-gonna-write-a-book crowd.

James N. Frey

#20. Being a Labour home secretary in the 21st century means fighting a constant battle against both extreme Right and Left.

David Blunkett

#21. No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law.

Pope Paul VI

#22. Never had there been so rare a day, or so rich a solitude top spend it in.

Aldo Leopold

#23. As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures, American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The Egyptian is so of the cavern and the mound; the Chinese, of the tent; the Gothic, of overarching trees; the Greek, of a cabin.

Nathaniel Hawthorne