Domed Quotes

#1. Of erections how few are domed like St. Peter's! of creatures, how few vast as the whale!

Herman Melville

#2. To slide into the domed reading room at ten each morning, specially in summer, off the hot street outside, was a sensation as delicious as dropping into the water off the concrete edge of the Fitzroy Baths.

Helen Garner

#3. Life's contentment is like an abstract edifice with a domed ceiling of insanity

Munia Khan

#4. And what have I done?"
What? WHAT? ... You've stolen them."
With that, Cornelia fled, but Buttercup understood; she knew who "them" was.
The boys.
The beef-witted featherbrained rattledskulled clodpated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed BOYS.

William Goldman

#5. The boys. The beef-witted featherbrained rattleskulled clod-pated dim-domed noodle-noggined sapheaded lunk-knobbed boys. How could anybody accuse her of stealing them? Why would anybody want them anyway?

William Goldman

#6. Hair like steel wool grew far back on his head and gave him a domed brown forehead that might at careless glance seemed a dwelling place for brains.

Raymond Chandler

#7. Eierkopf. Egghead. Because the big double-domed empty heads break so easily ... in the street brawls.

Philip K. Dick

#8. Back above ground, like robotic versions of the mosques and minarets that grace the shores of Istanbul's Bosphorus, Houston's petroscape of domed white tanks and silver fractioning towers spreads along the banks of its Ship Channel.

Alan Weisman

#9. And once again, that high, domed sky makes me feel a wide vista of emotion, and once again I could weep at an overturned chair or a torn page, or today, Larry's scruffy beard and the ink on his fingers that I can see from here.

Deb Caletti

#10. I grew up with a lot of body image issues - not just about my weight, but I would always see these perfect orb, domed boobs on television, and think, "Mine don't look like that." I thought there was something wrong with me.

Ronda Rousey

#11. His domed head was perfectly buffed and polished, cleanly reflecting the halogen lighting above.

J.R. Rain

#12. The summer night sky over the Hindu Kush, domed by the Milky Way's mage light, was infinitely splendid. Strewn against this craggy luminosity, millions of tiny stars shone, a diamond heist gone awry.

Sherry Thomas

#13. The high domed ceiling put me in mind of a skull, a brain, a mind. What did that make us, the readers?

Lia Mills

#14. Tendrils like spreading neath its lurid world,
Sprouting rooted whimsies all the way they-
Enchanted living hues, such with splendor bold,
And ornate jeweled minds domed Abbey.

When I Live With Fancy

Nithin Purple

#15. The room was amazing. It was all glass, including the domed roof, and in all directions it offered a view of the Atlantic Ocean stretching empty into the distance, hinting of eternity.

Robert B. Parker

#16. I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert
a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.

Mark Twain

#17. Of such divine neglect was atheism made; belief could not be rekindled now, however profound his terror. Thoughts

Clive Barker

#18. Do not expect too much of the end of the world.

Bill Vaughan

#19. Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.

Edward Abbey

#20. My
gad," one of them, warrant officer pilot, captain and M. C. in turn said to me once; "if
you can treat a crate that way, why do you want to fly at all?

William Faulkner

#21. Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.

Mahatma Gandhi