Ivory Hands Quotes

#1. She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown, which had a good deal of pink about it. She looked as if she was not attending to the conversation, but solely busy with the tea-cups, among which her round ivory hands moved with pretty, noiseless, daintiness.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#2. We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living
Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world,
And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh.

W.B.Yeats

#3. Her ivory hands on the ivory keys
Strayed in a fitful fantasy,
Like the silver gleam when the poplar trees
Rustle their pale leaves listlessly,
Or the drifting foam of a restless sea
When the waves show their teeth in the flying breeze.

Oscar Wilde

#4. All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.

Mignon McLaughlin

#5. Speed eventually neared its peak. The records forced me to work ever harder to drop a less and less time. These time trials came to feel like races, which are fun to run sporadically but not daily.

Joe Henderson

#6. Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety.

Mahatma Gandhi

#7. It takes more than holding hands and singing 'Ebony and Ivory'.

David Mitchell

#8. From the moment one sets up for an author, one must be treated as ceremoniously, that is as unfaithfully, as a king's favorite or a king.

Alexander Pope

#9. The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.

Vernor Vinge

#10. There is a growing belief, particularly among those belonging to the fifty-plus age group, that recently married people seem to be tripping over themselves to divorce each other. And often, for frivolous reasons!

Vijay Nagaswami

#11. He would much rather hear a piano being demolished by illegal bulldozers than a Mozart concerto

Andy Stanton

#12. The hands were ivory-coloured, the skin finely wrinkled everywhere, like the crust on a pool of wax, and under it appreared livid bruises, arthritic nodes, irregular tea-brown stains ... The flesh under the horny nails was candlvwax-coloured, and bloodless.

A.S. Byatt