Parched Lips Quotes

#1. She licked her parched lips, moistening them, preparing them. "You could lose your job."
"You could be expelled."
"It's unethical."
"Dangerous."
His mouth hovered only millimeters over hers. "We doing this?"
She hooked her arms around his neck. "God yes.

Shelly Bell

#2. I am not a historian. I happen to think that the content of my mother's life - her myths, her superstitions, her prayers, the contents of her pantry, the smell of her kitchen, the song that escaped from her sometimes parched lips, her thoughtful repose and pregnant laughter - are all worthy of art.

August Wilson

#3. It is as absurd to expect members of philosophy departments to be philosophers as it is to expect members of art departments to be artists.

Leo Strauss

#4. The aspect of congresses and such meetings generally to which I attach the greatest importance is the discussion. That is why people assemble: to hear different opinions, rather than to pass resolutions.

Fredrik Bajer

#5. He's a senior in high school Bernardo. Jean-Claude is his legal guardian and had to enroll him in school. He comes home with homework and shit and then he wants to cuddle and have sex. It weirds me the fuck out.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#6. Anyone who, for 25 years, has built a career on such tenuous foundations as a high-pitched giggle, a raspberry and a sprinkling of top 'Cs' needs all the friends he can get.

Harry Secombe

#7. Marvel makes you feel like 'Iron Man' will show up at your front door to kill you if you say the wrong thing.

J. August Richards

#8. The essence of leadership is not giving things or even providing visions. It is offering oneself and one's spirit.

Lee Bolman

#9. She was slender, and wonderfully graceful. Except that her movements were languid - very languid - indeed, there was nothing in her appearance to indicate an invalid.

J. Sheridan Le Fanu

#10. I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered. I moved to the department store business and again, things went well.

Henry Sy

#11. Percy, wake me for a second watch. Don't be a hero."
He gave her that smirk she'd come to love."Who, me?" He kissed her, his lips parched and feverishly warm. "Sleep.

Rick Riordan

#12. A peep, peep, peep, another peep, and that's it.

Barry Davies

#13. Love, the one supreme, unceasing source of human felicity, the one sole joy which lifts the whole mortal existence into the empyrean, was by it [Christianity] degraded into the mere mechanical action of reproduction.

Ouida

#14. Oh yes! I have couple-goals too. I love to couple myself with- Books, Coffee and Mountains.

Jasleen Kaur Gumber

#15. It is hard work to win back love. But don't give up. Those who persevere find more happiness in earning love than they do in gaining it.

Patricia St. John

#16. I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics.

Robert A. Heinlein

#17. Don't gape at me, Logan, everyone sees the way you look at her, how you watch over her like a hawk. You're too protective of her. Combine that with your competitive nature, add a dash of lust and a pinch of anger, and you have a perfect recipe for trouble.

Sarah West

#18. Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of an anxiety attack. When you're in the throes of one, it's hard to feel anything other than utter misery and terror.

Scott Stossel