Dumbly Quotes

#1. Skylar todl you to come here?" I asked dumbly.
"No," Bethany said. "Skylar told me not to come here. Same dif.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#2. Did he ask what she'd done in her room? Hell, no. At that point, and after that bewitching smile, if she'd murmured, "I'm leading you into the fiery depths of hell," he'd have followed dumbly.

Kresley Cole

#3. We won't be having an affair." I stare dumbly, certain I just heard an organ in my body crack in my chest. His hands clamp around me, and he crushes me to his body as he slides his nose along the shell of my ear. "When I take you, you'll be mine," he says, a soft promise in my ear.

Katy Evans

#4. I like your sister. A lot."
I look at him dumbly.
He looks at me, lowers his voice to say, "I like you.

Sophie Jordan

#5. And whence is courage: the unanswered question, the resolute doubt, - dumbly calling, deafly listening - that in misfortune, even death, encourages others and in its defeat, stirs the soul to be strong?

Marianne Moore

#6. The imagination is a spiritual apparatus. Unable to invent the world, it does the next best thing, and that is to assemble it piecemeal, ugly and strange, bright and clear, and dumbly discovered.

Jan Peacock

#7. This was what the poets couldn't put in their poetry, she thought dumbly, the rush of desire so fierce and pure it made one shake, all on the force of a word.

Lauren Willig

#8. Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever.

Ernest Becker

#9. White angel wings, made up from thousands of short feathers, now surrounded him.

"Uh. Bird?" She pointed dumbly, unable to form a single coherent though more.
"Harpie." He gave her a glare that could have killed.

Constance Sharper

#10. Zel so often put himself outside of where he wanted to be and then looked in dumbly through the window of his longing, hurt and beaten and knowing that he had hurt and beaten himself but still he did it, over and over.

Jeanette Winterson

#11. They were herded passively into the gas chambers. Weary of being hunted and persecuted, of living in constant fear, they dumbly awaited the hand of the sure physician, Death. For them life had lost all meaning and purpose. To prolong it would merely have prolonged their suffering.

Miklos Nyiszli

#12. He was to them like the poet of a new school who takes his contemporaries by storm; who is not really new, but is the first to articulate what all his listeners have felt, though but dumbly till then.

Thomas Hardy

#13. All she could do was stare dumbly at him as she trembled all over, for he was so rampantly glorious, it had stolen her voice.

Thea Harrison

#14. The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.

Oswald Chambers

#15. He broke out in a wide, cocky grin. "Have I rendered you speechless?"
I looked again and nodded dumbly. "Uh, huh.

Ashlan Thomas

#16. The man whom heaven helps has friends enough.

Euripides

#17. It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#18. I'm used to traveling. I'm used to being in different areas of the world. Home is where my suitcase lands.

Estelle

#19. The romantic interplay that we were having wasn't the real game
it was a modified version of the game. It was a version invented for two friends so that they can get some practice and pass the time divertingly while they eat in the station for their train to arrive

Amor Towles

#20. Music takes us where words cannot.

Henry Winkler

#21. We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#22. The secret to those who write is that they come to the art simply because they cannot speak.

Liz Rosenberg

#23. My mother once said "If you don't pay attention to age, then it won't pay attention to you." And she says it, and it sounds nice, but I don't buy it.

Cher

#24. I didn't come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don't want to be considered a cool actor - I want to be a great actor.

Tom Sizemore

#25. Short of throwing away all television sets, I really don't know what we can do about writing.

Phyllis A. Whitney

#26. Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#27. Grace has a face. It is Jesus Christ.

John Paul Warren