Leafed Quotes

#1. Eleanor had bargained for their wedding present, the dragon-spouted teapot worth thousands and the cups to match, gold-leafed, scaly.

Kate Walbert

#2. As I leafed through the book in front of me and watched the dust swirl in the air, I wondered if maybe there was some evil dormant virus in the pages that would infect me, like the mummy dust that used to kill archaeologists. Death by research. That was not a glorious end.

Rachel Caine

#3. Ephemerals: That's what Hub called them; flowers that bloomed and died in a matter of weeks, before the trees leafed out and shaded them. She liked the way the word sounded in her head. I am an ephemeral. It made her feel like something passing and precious.

Pamela Todd

#4. The wrinkled pages of the Bible crackled as Mom leafed back to the beginning of Matthew. I had always felt I was conceived from the powers of the universe. Maybe I was chosen to fulfill a divine mission.

Diamond Mike Watson

#5. Wooed by a vivid cover, she picked one up and leafed through it. She loved thee way it smelled, the ink, the fine paper, the oversized photographs.

Elizabeth Brundage

#6. We walked down a crunchy, leafed path as the sun shot through the tall, semi-bare trees. Yellows, browns, oranges and reds still clung to life and those that had lost the battle decorated the foliage and grounds.

Denise Baer

#7. We leafed through a series of the [1941 Soviet] Front newspaper. I came across the following phrase in a leading article: 'The much-battered enemy continued his cowardly advance.

Vasily Grossman

#8. What I have learned from working with plants over the years is that the big leafed plants are the best to absorb the energy so I like philodendrons very, very much.

Doreen Virtue

#9. I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a sentence that caught my eye.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#10. There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite.

Peter Straub

#11. Maria? ... She's been writing all this down? Oh, bless her ... ' He leafed on through the pile. 'Although that's not how that happened ... and no, she's wrong, bowties are cool.

James Goss

#12. I didn't read reviews earlier in my career, but I read them now as I'm older. I read them all.

Steven Spielberg

#13. I had a choice: I could believe the lies of the devil, in which case I was on my way to suicide, or I could believe in the promises of God, and be taken through my time of trial.

Angus Buchan

#14. I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing.

Mae West

#15. Dulwich College takes me back after seventy years: My Mum must have written one hell of a sick note!

Bob Monkhouse

#16. I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it.

Will Smith

#17. I know my music probably isn't going to matter to the public after I die, but that doesn't mean I don't have something to offer.

Natalie Imbruglia

#18. People are like hot potatoes, if they don't make you happy, drop them.

Sherise Seven

#19. My destiny no longer has me conquering the highest toowers in the world, but rather the void they protect.
This cannot be measured.

Philippe Petit

#20. I love movies. And sometimes it will be a case where I don't notice music.

Atticus Ross

#21. There is a land called Passive Aggressiva and their king holds my heart.

Addison

#22. With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.

Norm MacDonald

#23. Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

Richard Rogers