Quotes About Agate

#1. Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon.

Mary McCarthy

#2. To survive, our minds must taste redwood, and agate, octopi, bat, and in the bat's mouth, insect. It's hard to think like a planet, but we've got to try.

James Bertolino

#3. Anders looked up and saw Rik's chocolate eyes. Even though they were brown, a closer look revealed a blue corona around the dark, almost mahogany brown irises. He'd seen a piece of agate like that once on a dig; a perfect marriage of brown and blue in the depths of a broken stone.

Caraway Carter

#4. Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume the milk-white bodies of agate. Let them draw together the bones of the metal.

Ezra Pound

#5. He spread his paint on canvas-here light, there dark-till it looked like a streaked agate stone, and then "with little trouble," he made a finished painting emerge surprisingly out of the chaos of mixed paint.

E.H. Gombrich

#6. Where shall I find a style to catch a stroll,
Chablis on ice, a crisply toasted roll,
The agate succulence of cherries ripe?
The sunset's far, the ocean's splashing cool
Can offer solace to a sunburned nape.

Mikhail Kuzmin

#7. The light sleeps under the skin
of the rive stone.
What brings out the fire in the feldspar
the tiger in the agate
the rose in the quartz
is the persistence of desire.
The intractable will of light invisible things!

Jaime L. An Lim

#8. in the story no one smiles,no lesson is learned.
the narrator can not change any one's heart
the story is agate to another story,which opens onto a story after that.
i made it up but the story is true.

Laura Apol

#9. James Agate, a great critic of the day, advised me that the way to learn your job properly was to learn Shakespeare, so I went to Stratford. It really sorts out the men from the boys.

Donald Sinden

#10. O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you ...
She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate stone
On the forefinger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomi
Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep.

William Shakespeare

#11. God may forgive you if He chooses, but not I. Au revoir.

Lee Smith

#12. To force myself to earn more money, I determined to spend more.

James Agate

#13. Perhaps, after all, there is something in the theory that only the ultra-busy can find time for everything.

James Agate

#14. I want to be Tragedy, I want to be Juliet, I want to be Romeo. Thus with a kiss I die.

Lee Smith

#15. A professional is a man who can do his job when he doesn't feel like it; an amateur is one who can't when he does feel like it.

James Agate

#16. I don't know very much but what I do know I know better than anybody, and I don't want to argue about it ... My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.

James Agate

#17. In her early days she had that beatific expression characteristic of Victorian prettiness - like a sheep painted by Raphael.

James Agate

#18. All I want is a modest place in Mr X's Good Reading, Miss Y's Good Writing, and that new edition of One Thousand Best Bits of Recent Prose.

James Agate

#19. To much has happened too fast Dear Diary. What I want is for nothing to happen at all.
I don't even want good things anymore. I just want nothing.

Lee Smith

#20. Your Englishman, confronted by something abnormal will always pretend that it isn't there. If, however, you force him to look into it, he'll at once pretend that he sees the object not for what it is but for something that he would like it to be.

James Agate

#21. Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.

James Agate

#22. The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it.

James Agate

#23. Heyday, now that is a funny word ain't it? Part of a heyday is, you don't never know you are having yourself one till later when it's all over with, long gone.

Lee Smith

#24. This was an actress who, for twenty years, had the world at her feet. She kicked it away, and the ball rolled out of her reach.

James Agate

#25. The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

James Agate

#26. New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

James Agate

#27. But I would do it all again, every bit of it, I would lose him again just to have him again for an hour, for a minute, for even a second. I would do it all again just to see his face.

Lee Smith

#28. Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.

James Agate

#29. Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.

James Agate

#30. The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.

James Agate

#31. I ... wonder what it is in the New York air that enables me to sit up till all hours of the night in an atmosphere which in London would make a horse dizzy, but here merely clears the brain.

James Agate

#32. Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.

James Agate

#33. New Year's resolution: To refrain from saying witty, unkind things, unless they are really witty and irreparably damaging.

James Agate

#34. People can act so nice, bringing you food and all, but in the end they are nothing but buzzards. Waiting to pick your bones.

Lee Smith