Isolde Quotes

#1. The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel.

Eduard Hanslick

#2. That's it. Be yourself. Be Isolde Brannick, and they will have no choice but to adore you, He reached out and took my hand, pressing a kiss to the back of it. I was too stunned to do anything but sit there, my hand limp in his.

Rachel Hawkins

#3. Isolde took a swig. "It doesn't matter if you believe it or not. Your government just gave you two months to get knocked up." She held up the bottle, her face dull and red. "Cheers."
"You better get your fill of the booze now, then," said Xochi. "You'll be drinking for two pretty soon.

Dan Wells

#4. Until tomorrow, Fair Isolde.

Rachel Hawkins

#5. We needed to get back to the times of Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy or Tristan and Isolde. Where you felt that life altering, ground breaking, universe shifting true love.

Emily McKee

#6. The discrepancy between the vacationists' good times and Isolde's unfortunate experience is more than disgusting

Paul Hindemith

#7. You were in my arms for the first time, and you said my name, 'Tristan.'
I answered you: 'Isolde.'
Isolde. The world became a word.

Jeanette Winterson

#8. They both laughed and drank to each other; they had never tasted sweeter liquor in all their lives. And in that moment they fell so deeply in love that their hearts would never be divided. So the destiny of Tristram and Isolde was ordained.

Thomas Malory

#9. Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.

Robertson Davies

#10. If you can't know the truth, said Isolde, live the most awesome lie you can think off.

Dan Wells

#11. Can you get me home by nine?" His grin widened. "Isolde, my friend, I can get you back by quarter 'til.

Rachel Hawkins

#12. By this Yoshida explains that 'when we look at the actual conditions of this world through the camera's lens, we must deny the random movements of the human eye and restrain the eye's constant movements in order to focus on one point.

Isolde Standish

#13. I can assure you, public service is a stimulating, proud and lively enterprise. It is not just a way of life, it is a way to live fully.

Lee H. Hamilton

#14. It was the women of afghanistan,my mother believed,who-once they'd been granted access to books and education- would be the salvation of the country

Will Schwalbe

#15. Fortune's a fickle wench. She can knee you in the groin at any time.

Isolde Martyn

#16. I've never seen her defend herself the way she defends other people. It's like she thinks she doesn't deserve it, or maybe she thinks she doesn't need it.

Cheryl Rainfield

#17. Hearing is different from listening.

Elana Johnson

#18. If Iran and North Korea, by some horrible, devilish, nightmarish scenario, got together and went to war at the same time, one against Saudi Arabia and one against South Korea, I don't know what we would do about that. I don't know that we could stop them short of using nuclear weapons.

Ben Stein

#19. And there are no words left, try as men may, to describe that little death, that incandescent instant when, transacted with mutual love, there is no difference between sweet submission and exquisite conquest.

Isolde Martyn