Portico Quotes

#1. Hold fast," he called. "Tell me your names, and your stations."
"I am the Lady Door," said Door. "I am Portico's daughter, of the House of the Arch."
"I am Hunter. I am her bodyguard."
"Richard Mayhew," said Richard. "Wet.

Neil Gaiman

#2. In harmony there is nothing strange. And life is a vast harmony. I've understood this. But, you see- the moulded whimsy of a frieze on a portico keeps us from recognizing, sometimes, the symmetry of the whole ...

Vladimir Nabokov

#3. Yes," Tanner nodded. "I have great appreciation for neoclassical architecture. The ten pillars in the portico give the building a remarkable feeling of dignity and charm."

Bethany lowered her eyes and stifled a giggle. When Tanner put on an act, he put it on well.

Carol Kinsey

#4. When people laughed at him because he walked backward beneath the portico, he said to them: Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade?

Diogenes Of Sinope

#5. After Voltaire: envy is chained to the portico of the temple of glory and can neither enter nor leave.

Mason Cooley

#6. All of my own impulses to balance and move seemed to conflict with those of the guards, and I was jerked and jostled down the portico, just as graceful as a sick cat.

Megan Whalen Turner

#7. as those old engravings of the 'Cenacolo,' or that painting by Gentile Bellini, in which one sees, in a state in which they no longer exist, the masterpiece of Leonardo and the portico of Saint Mark's. We

Marcel Proust

#8. Mascara is my daily essential. I pile it on top and bottom lashes during the day. If I'm going out, I'll add the individual Eylure lashes at the outer corners for more drama.

Ashley Madekwe

#9. She loved you in the morning because the day was new.

Zadie Smith

#10. I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

James Taylor

#11. It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. We all have our own rhythms to walk to.

Lauren Lola

#13. Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.

Orson Scott Card

#14. When someone calls you a 'nigger', then you feel sorry for him... You have to pity him because his mind has such a sorry way of expressing itself.

Adam Makos

#15. That's when I did start loving Daniel. Not when I said I did, but some moments later when he replied in kind. It was the last day of January. Winter was through.

Claire Kilroy

#16. It's hot in here but that's just you, Michelle, for when I see you it's like the sun comes out in my head. You are the reason for global warming but in a good way.

J.A. Buckle

#17. Eyes darker than a midnight lake penetrate my thoughts with their intensity, and a big hand warmly covers mine

Poppet

#18. Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive,
Half wishing they were dead to save the shame.
The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow;
They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats,
And flare up bodily, wings and all. What then?
Who's sorry for a gnat ... or a girl?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#19. I don't trust myself with you." It had to be said, even if I hated admitting it to him and myself.

D.T. Dyllin

#20. Fear can't be reasoned with. Neither can hate. They're like love. They're almost identical emotions.

Rick Riordan