Effusions Quotes

#1. Let us leave it to the reviewers to abuse such effusions of fancy at their leisure and over every new novel to talk in threadbare strains of the trash with which the press now groans.

Jane Austen

#2. The politicians will reduce effusions with gbeshie-inspired confidence on political platforms if there are no cheering crowds.

Nana Awere Damoah

#3. I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen.

Kingsley Amis

#4. Is only a novel ... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language.

Victoria Connelly

#5. You must expect from me nothing but the melancholy effusions of a broken Heart which is ever reverting to the Happiness it once enjoyed...

Jane Austen

#6. The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them.

Octavio Paz

#7. I must be besotted," he said evenly. "I have the imbecilic idea that you're the prettiest girl I've ever seen. Except for your coiffure," he added, with a disgusted glance at the coils and plumes and pearls. "That is ghastly."
She scowled. "Your romantic effusions leave me breathless.

Loretta Chase

#8. The effusions of genius are entitled to admiration rather than applause, as they are chiefly the effect of natural endowment, and sometimes appear to be almost involuntary.

William Benton Clulow

#9. The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams.

Claude Debussy

#10. One time I picked it up and a voice goes, 'Hi, it's Sinatra. Can you play me a record?' I was like, 'Oh yeah, very funny,' and hung up. I thought someone was having a joke, but it was actually Frank. My manager told me there aren't many people who put the phone down on Sinatra.

Tony Blackburn

#11. I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.

John Madden

#12. I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I don't necessarily go out of my way to provoke, but I would much rather have a song that triggers a whole myriad of reactions than a song that inspires a shrug of the shoulder.

Dan Hill

#13. Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.

Henri Rousseau

#14. I see disaster everywhere; I also [ ... ] see generosity and resistance everywhere.

Rebecca Solnit

#15. If China wants to build a new six-lane expressway, it can bulldoze its way past any number of villages in its path; in India, if you want to widen a two-lane road, you could be tied up in court for a dozen years over compensation entitlements.

Shashi Tharoor

#16. For every guy who loves being a dad, there's another who realizes too late that he's created something his wife loves more than him.

Mark R. Brand

#17. But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules.

James Dashner

#18. Memory is for what is hoped; hope is for what is remembered.

Craig Keen

#19. I find writing the darker side, writing tragedy, a lot easier than writing happiness. Happiness is just less psychologically compelling, isn't it?

Paula Hawkins

#20. I've covered Israel just as I cover other politics.

David Gregory

#21. That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#22. Always be ready; always live in such a way that death can never find you unprepared.

Thomas A Kempis