Top 32 Quotes About Desultory
#1. For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?
John Campbell Shairp
#2. The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change, And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.
William Cowper
#3. Morning light through his windshield was pale and tired; the city had the desultory, cluttered look of a living room after a drunken party; Martin
Richard North Patterson
#4. Everything that belongs to the past seems to have fallen into the sea; I have memories, but the images have lost their vividness, they seem dead and desultory, like time - bitten mummies stuck in a quagmire.
Henry Miller
#5. It was a puzzle to her, how eagerly she'd rushed into life when she was eighteen or twenty, and in what a desultory fashion it had dragged out ever since.
Anna Quindlen
#6. The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand ...
Oscar Wilde
#7. Lay down a method also for your reading; let it be in a consistent and consecutive course, and not in that desultory and unmethodical manner, in which many people read scraps of different authors, upon different subjects.
Philip Dormer Stanhope
#8. The relations of a joker to his joke should be as quick and desultory as those of a bee to its flowers.
W. Somerset Maugham
#10. One book at a time ... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive.
Bernard Cornwell
#11. My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#12. The education of our hero, Edward Waverley, was of a nature somewhat desultory. In infancy his health suffered, or was supposed to suffer (which is quite the same thing), by the air of London.
Walter Scott
#13. There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and the mind fluctuates between different purposes without determination.
Samuel Johnson
#14. Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#15. Nothing perhaps increases by indulgence more than a desultory habit of reading, especially under such opportunities of gratifying it.
Walter Scott
#16. For me, the two weeks between Christmas and Twelfth Night have come to be reserved for desultory reading. The pressure of the holiday is over, the weather outside is frightful, there are lots of leftovers to munch on, vacation hours are being used up.
Michael Dirda
#17. It had acquired a name, Spatters, that reflected the desultory randomness of its outlines: the whole stinking shanty-town seemed to have dribbled like shit from the sky.
China Mieville
#18. My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
F. Sionil Jose
#19. He had no settled plan of life, nor looked forward at all, but merely lived from day to day. Yet he read a great deal in a desultory manner, without any scheme of study, as chance threw books in his way, and inclination directed him through them.
James Boswell
#20. To us, reality is just raw footage: Unclear. Desultory. Too shocking or not quite shocking enough. It's ironic that making something more real involves making it less real, but Gideon always says people don't want real. They want the idea of real, which involves production.
Paula Stokes
#21. After the revolution, almost all the activities one associated with being out in public - seeing movies, listening to music, sharing drinks or a meal with friends - shifted to private homes. It was refreshing to go out once in a while, even to such a desultory event.
Azar Nafisi
#22. Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.
Marcus Aurelius
#23. Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
Seneca.
#24. No matter where you are, you always need a best friend
Cecelia Ahern
#25. The threat made Liam smile. There was something to be said for having someone like you so much they chained you to a wall.
Lyn Gala
#26. Apparently, I get facials and manicures all the time. I read this and think, 'Oh, I wish I did that!' I don't think I've had a facial since I was 19.
Kate Beckinsale
#27. Our guru taught some valuable thoughts so we easily bring a change in our society.
Mini
#28. Dancing and singing were always like games to me. I sang constantly.
Tarkan
#29. I have to agree with Artforum publisher Charles Guarino: "It's the place where I found the most kindred spirits - enough oddball, overeducated, anachronistic, anarchic people to make me happy." Finally,
Sarah Thornton
#30. Humans need to dream, you know. It's how the mind breathes.
Max Gladstone
#31. I actually wanted to become a model agent, and went into what ended up becoming my first agency for a job interview. They ended up suggesting I model instead. I guess I sort of fell into it.
Rila Fukushima
#32. Nonviolence is based on recognizing that all of us are human beings. And at a certain point we begin to learn that you don't gather very much by making enemies out of people and not recognizing their humanity. Nonviolence is essentially based on recognizing the humanity in every one one of us.
Grace Lee Boggs
