Top 46 L S Lowry Quotes
#1. His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?"
But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.
Lois Lowry
#2. Its a little like looking at yourself looking in a mirror looking at yourself looking in a mirror.
Lois Lowry
#3. Maybe someday, if I succeed at something, I'll stop saying, "It isn't fair" about everything else.
Lois Lowry
#5. But the aircraft a year ago had been different. It was not a squat, fat-bellied cargo plane but a needle-nosed single-pilot jet.
Lois Lowry
#7. Follow the dreams of others and you will receive a paycheck. Follow your own dreams and you will never check your pay.
Vincent Lowry
#8. Shall we gather at the river,
Where bright angel feet have trod;
With its crystal tide for ever,
Flowing by the throne of God?
Robert Lowry
#9. The next morning, for the first time, Jonas did not take his pill. Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories, told him to throw the pill away.
Lois Lowry
#10. To sadden. To bloom. To bleed. What a strange set of words.
Lois Lowry
#11. What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who are unable to help themselves and then to fasten some moral superscription upon it. This I loathe so much that I cannot conceivably explain how much it is.
Malcolm Lowry
#12. You installed a GPS tracker on my phone? Seriously?" I was equal parts impressed and horrified. Apparently Seth's obsession with my whereabouts knew no bounds.
Lisa Roecker
#14. The debate over troop levels will rage for years; it is ... beside the point.
Rich Lowry
#15. John Kerry couldn't even order a Philly cheesesteak properly.
Rich Lowry
#16. Sometimes we have to hurt people, in order to keep ourselves whole. We must just do it with love, that's all.
Lois Lowry
#17. Nothing is altered and in spite of God's mercy I am still alone. Though my suffering seems senseless I am still in agony. There is no explanation of my life. Indeed there was not, nor was this what he'd meant to convey.
Malcolm Lowry
#18. I'm grateful to you, Jonas, because without you I would never have figured out a way to bring about the change. But your role now is to escape. And my role is to stay.
Lois Lowry
#19. Dying is a very solitary thing. The only thing we can do it be there when she wants us there.
Lois Lowry
#20. So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.
Lois Lowry
#21. I don't want to feel like people are imposing limits upon you.
Mike Lowry
#22. Memory is the happiness of being alone.
Lois Lowry
#23. All of it was new to him. After a life of Sameness and predictability, he was awed by the surprises that lay beyond each curve of the road.
Lois Lowry
#24. SCARED TO DEATH In Arizona, a 1000-acre forest of junipers suddenly withered and died. Foresters are unable to explain it, but the Indians say the trees died of fear but they are not in agreement as to what caused the fright.
Malcolm Lowry
#25. How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?
Malcolm Lowry
#26. He was free to enjoy the breathless glee that overwhelmed him: the speed, the clear cold air, the total silence, the feeling of balance and excitement and peace.
Lois Lowry
#27. I already know you, she told him, and I love what you are. Come!
A bridge opened between them. He crossed over.
B.T. Lowry
#28. No one else seemed to feel this kind of passionate attachment to other humans. Not to a newchild, not to a spouse, or a coworker, or friend. She had not felt it toward her own parents or brother. But now, toward this wobbly, drooling toddler -
Lois Lowry
#30. You have the colors," The Giver told him. "And you have the courage. I will help you to have the strength.
Lois Lowry
#32. The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.
Lois Lowry
#33. Frightened meant that deep, sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen.
Lois Lowry
#34. Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.
Rich Lowry
#35. Well, things change. I just have to learn to adjust to what they change to. One
Lois Lowry
#36. Far above him a few white clouds were racing windily after a pale gibbous moon. Drink all morning, they said to him, drink all day. This is life!
Malcolm Lowry
#37. I wanted to be a pariah, because all my heroes were cult artists, people who devoted their lives to poking into very narrow, very deep corners - Erik Satie, Alfred Jarry, Malcolm Lowry - people who suffered in order to express their vision of life.
Jim Woodring
#38. If you think the country is a bastion only of nasty tendencies and racism and oppression, that is anti-American.
Rich Lowry
#39. It was the only thing I had to do. I worked to get rid of the time, even now I work for something to do. Painting is a wonderful way of getting rid of the days.
L. S. Lowry
#40. You don't need brains to be a painter, just feelings.
L. S. Lowry
#41. If people call me a Sunday painter I'm a Sunday painter who paints every day of the week!
L. S. Lowry
#42. I am a simple man and I use simple materials: Ivory Black, Vermilion, Prussian Blue, Yellow Ochre, Flake White and no medium. That's all I've ever used in my paintings.
L. S. Lowry
#43. A bachelor lives like a king and dies like a beggar.
L. S. Lowry
#44. I saw the industrial scene and I was affected by it. I tried to paint it all the time. I tried to paint the industrial scene as best I could. It wasn't easy.
L. S. Lowry
#45. I'll always be grateful to rent collecting. I've put many of the tenants in my pictures.
L. S. Lowry
#46. I'm a simple man, and I use simple materials.
L. S. Lowry
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