Lidless Quotes

#1. The dead are visible only in the terrible lidless eye of memory.

John Green

#2. Outside, the north wind, coming and passing, swelling and dying, lifts the frozen sand drives it a-rattle against the lidless windows and we may dear sit stroking the cat stroking the cat and smiling sleepily, prrrr.

William Carlos Williams

#3. As the most recently arrived to earthly life, children can seem in lingering possession of some heavenly lidless eye.

Lorrie Moore

#4. Isia stepped forward. "Yes, sir. I know." Holding his fine brilliant wings above his body, he stood in front of us with his luminous lidless eyes full upon us. "I'm sorry to leave you. We've shared a lot together, and you have loved me even when I was ugly. But we'll see each other. Good-bye.

Sheila Moon

#5. I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless eye of that big yellow moon.

Steve Toltz

#6. We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is.

Shimon Peres

#7. As an enlisted sailor, I don't feel that the Navy is advancing me in rank fast enough, so I'm going to change my last name to Stains. My guess is they would rather promote me than to have to refer to me as Seaman Stains.

Brad Wilkerson

#8. When I was younger, I had an older brother a year and a half older than me, so we always had each other, and I felt very fortunate in that regard.

Rib Hillis

#9. Britain is obsessed with political correctness.

Marcus Brigstocke

#10. There were always too many hours in the day and never enough in the night.

Kate Thompson

#11. I dig out beautiful caves behind my characters; I think that gives exactly what I want; humanity, humor, depth. The idea is that the caves shall connect, & each comes to daylight at the present moment.

Virginia Woolf

#12. I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.

Lloyd Alexander

#13. I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity.

Joshua Bell

#14. I believe, for instance, that love is an infection best contracted and got over when one is young, like the smallpox; and then one may rest secure from it and get on with life

Jude Morgan