Glyn Quotes

#1. despite a conducive environment and comforting faith, there is unease among the rooms' inhabitants, a rising tide of something close to fear. They know that a terrible ghost is abroad in the cloisters of Microsoft. The - Author: Glyn Moody

#2. To define a man: he must be a creature who makes me feel that I am a woman. - Author: Elinor Glyn

#3. He was such a throwaway thing of no importance, and yet he existed and would make that existence worthwhile. - Author: Glyn Iliffe

#4. Sundays, like a stanza break
Or shower's end of all applause,
For some old unexplaining sake
The optimistic tread these shores,
As lonely as the dead awake
Or God among the dinosaurs. - Author: Glyn Maxwell

#5. The duration of love in a being always depends upon the loved one. I create an emotion in you, as you create one in me. You do not create it in yourself. - Author: Elinor Glyn

#6. If Hollywood hadn't existed, Elinor Glyn would have had to invent it. - Author: Anita Loos

#7. Drinking: something to do while getting drunk. - Author: Peg Bracken

#8. Marriage is the aim and end of all sensible girls, because it is the meaning of life. - Author: Elinor Glyn

#9. I don't know how it is the most unattractive creatures of every nation seem to be the ones who travel. - Author: Elinor Glyn

#10. The Book is divine, immortal, and ever young. He who was in it for our fathers is in it for us. And since He is in it, as He is in no other literature in the world, - Author: Handley Carr Glyn Moule

#11. Of course we get hurt in love.
We have this immense need to immerse
violence into love.
As if a love that doesn't devastate is less of a verb.
As if a rain that doesn't drown wouldn't make the trees grow. - Author: Akif Kichloo

#12. Everything that I write will be signed with my name. - Author: Elinor Glyn

#13. You look at these mountains now, and they look so permanent and peaceful, but they're changing all the time and the changes aren't always peaceful. Underneath us, beneath us here right now, there are forces that can tear this whole mountain apart. - Author: Robert M. Pirsig

#14. Prudent readers will do well to hold Three Weeks at arm's length, unless they want to be cut by flying adjectives. - Author: Elinor Glyn

#15. A madness of tender caressing seized her. She purred as a tiger might have done, while she undulated like a snake. - Author: Elinor Glyn

#16. American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced. - Author: Elinor Glyn

#17. At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at the cold and the earliness of the hour, and cursed the flint hearts of city girls. - Author: M. John Harrison

#18. I don't really even go out that much now except to walk my dogs, because I don't want to be recognised. - Author: Sia Furler

#19. Passionate jealousy is not a good foster-parent for prudence. - Author: Elinor Glyn

#20. Whatever will bring in the most money will happen. - Author: Elinor Glyn

#21. Our only reliable source of strength is the goodness of our hearts. Our only foundation for coming to terms with the suffering of the times is our innate need to be decent human beings. - Author: Sakyong Mipham

#22. American humor ... is not subtle. It is something that makes you laugh the moment you hear it, you have not to think a scrap. - Author: Elinor Glyn

#23. Detroit is really the most perfectly laid out city one could imagine, and such an enchanting park and lake, - infinitely better than any town I know in Europe. It ought to be a paradise in about fifty years when it has all matured. - Author: Elinor Glyn

#24. All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing. - Author: Elinor Glyn

#25. The solution to the mystery is always inferior to the mystery itself. - Author: Glyn Parry

#26. That one brown house still had that hole in its garage door splintering like a chewed cookie smile, the hole the exact size and height of the car parked on the driveway in front of it. - Author: Tim Kinsella

#27. What happened to cause the jail fight? (Maggie)
They thought it would be fun to knock around the 'kid' and show off their manhood. I thought it would be fun to knock a couple of them unconscious. (Wren) - Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon

#28. You come into this world alone and die alone, but there's a really long stretch in the middle that can be extraordinarily meaningful and even fun with the right people. And when it's not fun, they'll be with you, too. - Author: Julie Klam

#29. Soren, this is my mother, Jenna Glyn. Mom, this is Soren, my ... ' She blinks and shakes her head before saying, ' ... my everything.'
Jenna's eyes widen in horror, and I don't mind because I dislike her, too. Vehemently. - Author: Tessa Gratton

#30. Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. - Author: Elinor Glyn

#31. Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire. - Author: Elinor Glyn

#32. I have wondered sometimes if there are not perhaps some disadvantages in having really blue blood in one's veins, like grandmamma and me. - Author: Elinor Glyn

#33. Welcome to Hollywood, a land just off the coast of planet Earth. I am never quite certain if I am visiting the zoo, or if I'm one of the animals in a cage. - Author: Elinor Glyn

#34. How much better to make no vow; then at least when the cord of attraction snaps, we can go free, still defying the lightning in our untarnished pride. - Author: Elinor Glyn

#35. No one can control his emotion of love for a woman ... the sentiment he feels, I mean, but the strong man controls the demonstration. - Author: Elinor Glyn