Pursing Quotes

#1. I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

Claire Bloom

#2. Pursing my lips, I ask, "What do you know about lingerie?" A bark of a laugh, then, "Uh, I know women look good in it.

Belle Aurora

#3. Being in the music business requires having a very strong resolve. You must be completely committed to the craziness that will inevitably ensue when pursing a career in music. There is no one who is immune to this. Not even the biggest music icons.

Wendy Starland

#4. [H]is mouth pursed, but pursed in American, more generous than English pursing, ready for broader vowels and less mincing sounds. His body was long and lean and trim; he had American hips, ready for a neat belt and the faraway ghost of a gunbelt.

A.S. Byatt

#5. One corner of his mouth crooked up, then the quirk vanished in a thoughtful pursing of his lips. "He's bisexual, you know." He took a delicate sip of his wine.
"Was bisexual," she corrected absently, looking fondly across the room. "Now he's monogamous."
Vordarian choked, sputtering.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#6. I think there's too much emphasis placed on learning things by rote that you don't really care about. So what happens to students in school is that they eventually lose interest in learning, because they've been forced to learn the required courses, rather than pursing their passion.

Jack Canfield

#7. The Divine glory is an object only worthy of attention; and to display his holy character, was the design of God in creation' as there were no after beings existing antecedent therto, to attract the mind of Jehovah; and we are sure that God is pursing the same thing still, and always will.

Lemuel Haynes

#8. Had I paused to reflect, I would have understood that my devotion to Clara brought me no more than suffering. Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursing those who hurt us the most.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#9. Whether it is Paul defending Judaism, Augustine pursing philosophical learnedness, Luther attempting complete ritual self-abasement, each finally realized he had given himself to secular forms of self-salvation and to a world filled with human achievement but empty of God.

William Dean

#10. Pursing my lips, I strive to appear unaffected by his touch. He is so artful at diverting me from anything painful, or anything he doesn't want to address. And you let him, my subconscious pipes up unhelpfully, gazing over her copy of Jane Eyre.

E.L. James

#11. The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else.

John W. Gardner

#12. I don't think I'd be able to fit that thing in my mouth, she said conversationally, pursing her lips up thoughtfully as she stared between his legs.

R.L. Mathewson

#13. What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what's coming around." He paused for a moment, frowning faintly, pursing his lips. "And sometimes you are what's coming around. You see what I mean?

Jim Butcher

#14. I turned and saw that Frank had joined me in the line. He took a step closer to me and said in a low voice, Mind if I jump the line? He glanced behind him at the older couple who were pursing their lips in disapproval, and said, too loudly, Thank you for saving my place in line, Emily!

Morgan Matson

#15. I'm not a philosopher, Harry," [Michael] said. "But here's something for you to think about, at least. What goes around comes around. And sometimes you get what's coming around." He paused for a moment, frowning faintly, pursing his lips. "And sometimes you are what's coming around.

Jim Butcher

#16. You know I can never stay away from you." She reached up with both hands and pinched his cheeks, hard. "You're just so darn cute," she said, pursing up her lips.
"I'm studly baby, get it right.

R.L. Mathewson

#17. You break the legs of your leadership chair when you chase after other people's assignments instead of pursing yours!

Israelmore Ayivor

#18. If we want to create Heaven on earth, we must be the creators of Heaven on earth. This means we must choose to infuse honor and love into each experience, with every soul and creature we encounter. In its simplest form, this is what Angels do.

Molly Friedenfeld

#19. If it isn't a success, that still wouldn't be grounds for divorce.

Geena Davis

#20. From the political angle, I'm trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, 'Are you a red state or blue state?', I say, 'I'm purple.' I think there are great ideas on both sides of the aisle and neither side has cornered the market.

Brad Thor

#21. I believe in God, I just give him more credit than being a single parent and an author.

Bill Maher

#22. Her cuisine is limited but she has as good an idea of breakfast as a Scotchwoman.
[Sherlock Holmes, on Mrs. Hudson's cooking.]

Arthur Conan Doyle

#23. If I die now, at least my soul might see him in Paradise one day.

Amy A. Bartol

#24. In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.

Plato

#25. I wasn't driven. I just really loved what I did.

Jo Stafford

#26. Usually as an artist I would write relatively within my own playing boundaries.

Michael Tolcher

#27. Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter

#28. We would live together and weave out lives into one another's and hold on to a sacred sisterhood that only a handful of women ever experienced.

Kiera Cass

#29. It is so hard to stay afloat in a world
that just wants to drown you.

Schuyler Peck

#30. Mexico. Melancholy, profoundly right and wrong, it embraces as it strangulates.

Ana Castillo

#31. I don't want to get close to people who have secrets that I don't know about.

Albert Brooks