Etiolated Quotes

#1. The big rippled sheets of glass were taken out of their sacking and lowered from the back of the wagon, and for a few giddy moments a troupe of rubbery dwarves and etiolated giants shimmied and shivered in those depthless caskets. of light.

John Banville

#2. The past has no wholeness, it has been etiolated by revised explanations of it, trampled over by hindsight - all their lives.

Nadine Gordimer

#3. If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into a saloon, finding an etiolated Henry James slumped at the bar in a haze of indecision, and shooting him dead.

Adam Haslett

#4. Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Jodie Foster

#5. Sometimes Silence Is Better In Explaining Something Than Words ...

Muhammad Imran Hasan

#6. I think there's a limited amount of planning you can do, at least in the position I'm in. Maybe more successful actors can plan more than I'm able to.

Christian Bale

#7. Columbus and his men, they say, Conveyed the virus hither Whereby my features rot away And vital powers wither; Yet had they not traversed the seas And come infected back, Why, think of all the luxuries That modern life would lack.

Richard Wilbur

#8. It is equally a mistake to hold one's self too high, or to rate one's self too cheap.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#9. The chances you take, the people you meet, the people you love, the faith that you have. That's what's going to define you.

Denzel Washington

#10. I still have very normal insecurities, but I've always been made to feel like a body is a body, and it's not supposed to look like what you see in the media.

Nikki Reed

#11. You can be such an asshole, Dresden, I swear.

Jim Butcher

#12. No oath can be too binding for a lover.

Sophocles