Glaucous Quotes

#1. And it seemed that my flesh crawled with the gentleness of those glaucous things evoked by the verse. It was as if fingertips, like cut emeralds or fresh olives, were stroking the palm of my hand.

Jean Lorrain

#2. On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit.

Peter Straub

#3. The clouds was light but queerly yellow on their edges as they moved across the ageless constellations.

Peter Carey

#4. I'm a bit of a romantic.

Eric Bana

#5. Stripped of its arrogance, its desire to make off with half of the patrimony and never be seen again, history belongs at the family table. If theology, the older brother, pretends not to need or notice him it will be a sign that he has forgotten, after all, who his father is.

N. T. Wright

#6. I have a lot of teenage readers and readers in their early twenties. My writing style appeals to them. And if they look at my picture on the back of the book, they don't see someone who looks like their mother.

Julia Quinn

#7. A dominant religion is never ascetic.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#8. Miles got a mystique about him-plus he's at the top of his profession. And he's got way, way, way more money.

Dizzy Gillespie

#9. Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.

Alberto Manguel

#10. All you ask from me is a little music, but I am much more that I ever thought I was, and I would like to share other things with you that I have only just begun to understand.

Paulo Coelho

#11. I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

Barack Obama

#12. Words have the power to both destroy and heal. When words are both true and kind, they can change our world.

Gautama Buddha

#13. Sometimes it's just a zen thing and it means shutting the noise out and forming a plan and realizing that as long as it's not going to kill you then you just need to breathe and move past it,

Chuck Wendig

#14. The theories of men changed from day to day. Much that is taught new will tomorrow be in the discard, but the word of the Lord will endure forever.

Joseph Fielding Smith