Gleans Quotes

#1. The writer gleans wind scraps; he listens wherever he can. Each day is full of instances; what counts, as with all stimuli, is the sympathetic response.

Nicholas Delbanco

#2. The Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine. Of all sad words experience gleans, The saddest are: It might have beans.

Guy Wetmore Carryl

#3. Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius.

George Edward Woodberry

#4. The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of his perfection, creating imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell.

Armand Salacrou

#5. Are you pro- or anti-macassar?

Peter De Vries

#6. And there is such honesty and innocence to her voice I want to hold her. The bedside lamplight is a rich golden color, and it is falling on her face in a way that makes it seem gilded. For a moment, L.D. looks to me like an angel. Another case of illusion only being the larger truth.

Elizabeth Berg

#7. Blessed are the pure in heart; how will people believe that, unless we ourselves are worshipping the living God until our own hearts are set on fire and scorched through with his purity?

N. T. Wright

#8. As an actress for most of my life, I am profoundly familiar with poverty.

Martha Plimpton

#9. Alas; they had been friends in youth
but whispering tongues can poison truth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#10. How is it going with your boyfriend?;););) - text from Grandma Frida

Ilona Andrews

#11. If you can be anything else but a writer, be it.

Kate Braverman