Palely Quotes

#1. Something very much like nothing anyone had ever seen before came trotting down the stairs and crossed the room.
"What is that?" the Duke asked, palely.
"I don't know what it is," said Hark, "but it's the only one there ever was.

James Thurber

#2. Buechner uses words with such transformative power that any comment on them is like the moon palely reflecting the sun.

Walter Brueggemann

#3. Such phantom blossoms palely shining
Over the lifeless boughs of Time.

Edgar Lee Masters

#4. A cluster of stars palely glowed above us, between the silhouettes of long thin leaves; that vibrant sky seemed as naked as she was under her light frock. I saw her face in the sky, strangely distinct, as if it emitted a faint radiance of its own.

Vladimir Nabokov

#5. Still I sojourn here, alone and palely loitering, though the sedge is withered from the lake and no birds sing. For I sent the bath towel to the wash this morning, and omitted to put out another. I have no towel.

Rose Macaulay

#6. Oh what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering?

John Keats

#7. It is luck to love someone who is free to love you in return.

Philippa Gregory

#8. Isn't the universe full of gaseous elements?"
Andrew says, "Yeah, there are gases and neutrinos and this shit they call dark matter.

Michael Cunningham

#9. Oh, the soul keeps its youth!

Amelia Barr

#10. I still have highs and lows, just like any other person. What's missing is the lack of control over the super highs, which became destructive, and the super lows, which are immediately destructive.

Patty Duke

#11. The Christian ministry is difficult, and we must not be lazy or trite. However, we often place burdens upon ourselves and make demands upon ourselves that are not according to the will of God. The more I know God and understand His perfect work on my behalf, the more I am able to rest.

Paul Washer

#12. Nice days are more unsafe. There are more of them.

Brian Spellman

#13. The free man never thinks of escape.

Jeanette Winterson

#14. I'm laughing at you, you're laughing at me.

Bruce Springsteen

#15. As a child, I felt that Hallowe'en was a time when creatures of the night suddenly came to life - we would turn off all the lights in the house and let flickering candlelight conjure up scary shadows and create the effect of imaginary figures lurking in dark corners.

Pippa Middleton

#16. Tatiana had imagined her Alexander since she was a child, before she believed that someone like him was even possible. When she was a little girl, she dreamed of a fine world in which a good man walked its winding roads, perhaps somewhere in his wandering soul searching for her.

Paullina Simons

#17. The sexuality is being sold to the artists as power when in fact it's not; it's a way of hypnotizing their audience.

Sinead O'Connor

#18. All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

Carl Sagan