Top 23 Leafing Quotes
#1. A priest friend of mine has cautioned me away from the standard God of our childhoods, who loves you and guides you and then, if you are bad, roasts you: God as a high school principal in a gray suit who never remembered your name but is always leafing unhappily through your files.
Anne Lamott
#2. In high school I was leafing through an anthology that our teachers had given up and I found a poem, I go, "That's so strange. This poem looks so much like my grandfather's poem."
Edward Hirsch
#3. On the day the world is blown up, the playwright whose show opened the night before will be leafing past the news section of the Times to find his review
as he ascends through the stratosphere, oblivious.
Arthur Miller
#4. I was leafing through a magazine where there was a before-and-after picture of a woman who went from a size 5 to a size 3 by liposuction. Was she serious? I've cooked bigger turkeys than her "before" picture.
Erma Bombeck
#5. The stars dust gold leafing on his skin. And we are looking at each other, just looking, and I swear there are whole lifetimes lived in those small, shared moments.
Mackenzi Lee
#6. He knew what I was thinking," the boy said to himself. The old man, meanwhile, was leafing through the book, without seeming to
Paulo Coelho
#7. Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
Adam Gopnik
#8. The mild June nightbreeze frisking around their ankles and leafing through the pages of a magazine on the hall table.
Stephen King
#9. After I consumed Frost in his entirety, my days of exploration began. I read The Diving Comedy while leafing through E. E. Cummings. I read Sidney and Milton and Shelley, piecing together my own aesthetics, my own defence of poetry. I felt alone and religious and desperately sad.
Spencer Gordon
#10. The white in her hair verged on silver-plate. The style was some cosmetologist's ode to meringue.
Jonathan Kellerman
#11. Some people read their Bibles in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost.
Smith Wigglesworth
#13. So much gets lost in the translation. Even if you sat there listening to it with a microscope, there's no way you're gonna find out what it means.
Frank Zappa
#14. We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.
Buzz Aldrin
#15. If you just look around ... you'll see you got magic.
John Butler
#16. Comedy is much harder, it's a lot more exacting. You can't just be real and you can't just use the same kind of techniques you use to fill up a regular scene.
Jack Nicholson
#17. Someone needs to give the Pope thirteen babies. Just for a week or so. See how he likes no birth control then.
Laura Moriarty
#18. "Ecod, you may say what you like of my father, then, and so I give you leave," said Jonas. "I think it's liquid aggravation that circulates through his veins, and not regular blood ... "
Charles Dickens
#19. When you please your mother by doing something, it gives you confidence that you can please other people.
Gene Wilder
#21. I never stood a chance. He stole your heart first. -Marcus Hardy
Abbi Glines
#23. The only future I want is the one that ends with her.
Krista Ritchie
