George Sterling Quotes

#1. When sunset, like a crimson throat to hell, is cavernous ...
("A Wine of Wizardry")

George Sterling

#2. The pathway traced with blood and tears,
and dust of all our father's dead,
Whose backward footsteps, wandering, red,
Fade to the mist of nameless years.
("The Testimony of the Suns")

George Sterling

#3. No, it's not [a book] Lana. It's an allegorical novella about Stalinism by George Orwell, and spoiler alert, IT SUCKS.

Sterling Archer

#4. And fragile is thy tenure of this world
Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.
("To Science")

George Sterling

#5. Till her appointed course be run;
Till on the darkness faint her breath
Flown to the silent void, and Death
Sit crowned upon the ashen sun.
("The Testimony of the Suns")

George Sterling

#6. O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity! Shrined by your termless trinity, How strange, how terrible, is life! ("The Testimony of the Suns")

George Sterling

#7. Closing his eyes, he feels the weight of the angel as she straddles his thighs. She leans forward, her breath on his cheek, her lips close to his ear, whispering, 'Remember your promise.

Michael Robotham

#8. The civility of young Branghton, I much suspect, was merely the result of his father's commands

Fanny Burney

#9. Let him who is worthy by reason of his clear eye and unjaded heart wander across these borders of beauty and mystery and be glad.

George Sterling

#10. Where got she her sullen mouth
And where her swaying form?
Would she live on eggs and apples
When the blood of men is warm?
("The Young Witch")

George Sterling

#11. I was curious. Here was a character where I just didn't know how they were going to write him into 13 episodes without it being one note. My fear was that I didn't want to join something where I was just going to be this prop and this mustache twirling character.

Shawn Hatosy

#12. Tolerating imperfections is the price of freedom.

Thomas Sowell

#13. I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.

Lenny Kravitz

#14. Wealth is the Conjurer's Devil, Whom, when he thinks he hath, the Devil hath him.

George Herbert

#15. Thy Banners gleam a little, and are furled; Against thy turrets surge His phantom tow'rs; Drugged with his Opiates the nations nod, Refusing still the beauty of thine hours; And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.

George Sterling

#16. Be sure that head and heart were laid
In wisdom down, content to die.
Be sure he faced the Starless Sky
Unduped, unmurmuring, unafraid.
("The Passing of Bierce")

George Sterling

#17. A little while, their hunger unfulfilled,
The mothlike worlds flit 'round the guttering sun.
("Ephemera")

George Sterling

#18. As a breath on glass, -
As witch-fires that burn,
The gods and monsters pass,
Are dust, and return.
("The Face of the Skies")

George Sterling

#19. Within its gates I heard the sound
Of winds in cypress caverns caught
Of huddling tress that moaned, and sought
To whisper what their roots had found.
("A Dream of Fear")

George Sterling

#20. And starward drifts the stricken world,
Lone in unalterable gloom
Dead, with a universe for tomb,
Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled.
("The Testimony of the Suns")

George Sterling

#21. She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life; just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them.

Isabel Allende

#22. A prison becomes a home when you have the key.

George Sterling

#23. He does not listen for an answer, but yawns, his face opening lewdly upon regions compared with which nudity becomes a milliner's invention.

Mervyn Peake

#24. It must be though on you not being able to read, but it's not the end of the world. You might not be able to read, but there are things only you can do. That's what you gotta focus on - your strengths.

Haruki Murakami

#25. The cool, grey city of love.

George Sterling

#26. People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.

Roger Penrose

#27. The candle glimmers but an hour. The night
Looms in its ancient hunger. Would you know
The tragedy of human love and need?
Gaze on the stars, then on a brother's face!

George Sterling

#28. I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate.

John Updike

#29. What silence rules the ghostly hours
That guard the close of human sleep!
("The Testimony of the Suns")

George Sterling

#30. Let weak Christians know that a spark from heaven, though kindled under green wood that sobs and smokes, yet it will consume all at last.

Richard Sibbes

#31. The sudden screaming of women woke Tuco, who might have gone unnoticed had he lain quietly beneath the stone lip of the well.

Brian Fox

#32. Real divas give 150 percent. If they don't have the right dress, they'll go out in whatever they have. If there are no microphones, they'll still put on a show. They are people who put their heart and soul in what they do.

Patti LaBelle

#33. When the guy says go, you start to suffer - or you might as well not be out there. It's a small piece of your life, make it hurt.

Aaron Cox