Monotones Quotes

#1. Down to the Puritan marrow of my bones
There's something in this richness that I hate.
I love the look, austere, immaculate,
Of landscapes drawn in pearly monotones.

Elinor Wylie

#2. We speak in (rich) monotones. Our poetry is haunted by the music it has left behind. Orpheus shrinks to a poet when he looks back, with the impatience of reason, on a music stronger than death.

George Steiner

#3. Its tall chimneys throw up black smoke, impregnating everything with soot, and the miners' faces as they traveled the streets were also imbued with that ancient melancholy of smoke, unifying everything with its grayish monotones, a perfect coupling with the gray mountain days.

Che Guevara

#4. I wipe away my tears and nod, because the pain in my leg is nothing compare to the one in my heart.

Wendelin Van Draanen

#5. We tend to start with Earth and reason up toward Heaven, when instead we should start with Heaven and reason down toward Earth.

Randy Alcorn

#6. What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

Anthony De Mello

#7. You are not doing this for her. You're doing it for yourself. Your life is not just about the people you love. It's also about the people you hate.

Tom Rob Smith

#8. No matter where you look for something that is not an experience, the moment you find it you will realize that you have only found another experience. Experience is the stuff that reality is made of.

Jeff Carreira

#9. I'm very homework-oriented - I'm a little Tracy Flick-ish.

Drew Barrymore

#10. I warmed both hands before the fire of life; It sinks, and I am ready to depart.

Walter Savage Landor

#11. An evil and adulterous [idolatrous] generation seeks after a sign (Matt. 12:39 NKJV),

Michael S. Horton