Quotes About Divan

#1. After crossing herself, she lay back on the divan and squirted a cool puddle of hand lotion from the bottle she'd brought from London. Invariably she would apply too much, and her hands would be slick and shiny in the candlelight as she asked for another pair with which to share the excess.

Anthony Marra

#2. The spirit is the mirror; the body is the rust.
(Divan-i-Shamsi Tabriz)

Idries Shah

#3. An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn't join the Divan Orchestra in the first place.

Daniel Barenboim

#4. He takes up too much room, on the divan and in one's mind. It is simply impossible for me, in his presence, think of anything but him.

Alice Munro

#5. He lay down upon a sumptuous divan, and proceeded to instruct himself with honest zeal.

Mark Twain

#6. There was a desperate undercurrent to our marriage
a feeling of being in a dream from which I couldn't seem to awaken. A nagging sense that my life, laid out so neatly like the clothes Deirdre left on my divan, was no longer my own.

Lauren DeStefano

#7. Here it seemed some of them slept for there were divan beds covered with blankets only and a large, much undenticulated, comb.

Evelyn Waugh

#8. The world was his divan. There was such a freedom in it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#9. The use of tobacco is one of the most evident of all the retrograde influences of our time. It invades all classes, destroys social life, and is turning, in the words of Mantegazza, the whole of Europe into a cigar divan.

Charles R. Drysdale

#10. Impressive, isn't it?" Divan says with pride. "I purchased it from a Brazilian artist, who has apparently made a career working in flesh. He claims his artwork is to protest unwinding, but I ask you, how much of a protest can it be if he uses the unwound for his art?

Neal Shusterman

#11. How much longer on the divan? Why does sex have to mean everything? OK, it can mean something, but why everything? Why do thirty years have to go down the toilet because I wanted to touch somebody else? Am I missing something? Is this what it comes down to? Why does the sex have to mean everything?

Zadie Smith

#12. Everybody thinks that once you reach the top, you can lie back on a divan with a goddamn mai tai. No. Wrong. Success is not a mountain climb. Success is a treadmill.

Susan Jane Gilman

#13. I feel unburdened, and after a while I start to imagine that the divan is a boat moving over the ocean. Sunken cities play music beneath the waves. The ghosts are stirring.

Lauren DeStefano

#14. He extended his hand: It seemed to meet something in mid-air, and he drew it back with a sharp exclamation. "I wish you'd keep your fingers out of my eye," said the aerial voice, in a tone of savage expostulation.

H.G.Wells

#15. I see no business in life but the work of Christ.

Henry Martyn

#16. No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.

Robert Walpole

#17. A blessing is a circle of light drawn around a person to protect, heal and strengthen.

John O'Donohue

#18. I knew I would never be cast as the pretty girl.

Christina Ricci

#19. I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted patient people who would work on something forever. I didn't want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done.

Jack Kirby

#20. When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.

Iris Chang

#21. Your soul is so close to mine
That what you dream, I know. ...
I know everything you think of: your heart is so close to mine!

Rumi

#22. I've acted with all types, I've directed all types. What you want to understand, as a director, is what actors have to offer. They'll get at it however they get at it. If you can understand that, you can get your work done.

Ron Howard

#23. For the cowards, all doors are locked; for the daring, all doors are open!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#24. That's what a story must feel like to me. It's not, "I want to write about a gravedigger." But you're walking along and - boop! shovel. "Ok, what does one do with a shovel? Digs a hole. Why? I don't know yet. Dig the hole! Oh, look a body."

George Saunders

#25. Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.

Edmund Burke

#26. The more one delves into Rumi's life and his mystical poetry it becomes clear that for him, the issue of faith and reason is incomplete unless one includes the central theme of love.

Rumi

#27. I'm one, too," he said.
"What?"
He spit a wad of blood and mucus into the dirt. "A virgin."
What a shock.
"What makes you think I'm a virgin?" I asked.
"You wouldn't have hit me if you weren't.

Rick Yancey

#28. An alchemist cannot develop an elixir of life, but walking in nature can do! Youth and longevity are the two magics hidden in walking! Walking is a real alchemist

Mehmet Murat Ildan