Quotes About Featureless

#1. How true,' returned the measured, featureless voice. 'I would chuckle in amused agreement, but the laughter switches of my translator have been malfunctioning for the past six hours. You understand.'

'Certainly,' I said. And somehow felt much more comfortable.

Samuel R. Delany

#2. Winter, then spring, summer, and soon autumn. All seasons are one, ice-cold, featureless, a hell of dreariness.

Daniel Arsand

#3. She stared at the featureless iron and felt more keenly than ever the distance between them. Now. Now was the time to say what might be the last words he would ever hear from her.
"Fight," she said at last. "Win.

Suzannah Rowntree

#4. Morrell turned his head upward as if to appraise the azure, featureless sky and nodded, apparently approving of God's use of negative space.

Steve Toltz

#5. Resultant SCP-658 measures 45 by 45 by 20 cm. Upper half of object occupied by a single video screen, which constantly displays shaky, colorless footage of an unmoving human figure suspended in mid-air within a featureless room (tentatively identified as [DATA EXPUNGED]).

Anonymous

#6. I grew up in such a featureless, personality-less suburb. There was nothing to push against.

Patton Oswalt

#7. As I listened I thought a featureless baggy man was striking me in slow motion with a well-polished stone.

Don DeLillo

#8. Their faces were clay-coloured and featureless, yet not stupid; they might have been shrewd turnips.

Rebecca West

#9. Tried to teach him The Lord's Prayer once." His eyes traveled out beyond the hut for a moment, toward the gritty, featureless hardpan. "Guess this ain't Lord's Prayer country.

Stephen King

#10. Or consider "Here Without You" by 3 Doors Down, or almost any song by the group Maroon 5. Those bands are so featureless that critics and listeners created a new music category - "bath rock" - to describe their tepid sounds. Yet whenever they came on the radio, almost no one changed the station.

Charles Duhigg

#11. The world isn't black and white, good or bad. The battles that make a real difference are fought in the murky area in between, where the greater good requires brutal sacrifice. Where both the means and the ends are just shadows in a featureless gray landscape. And that was the death of my idealism.

Rachel Vincent

#12. Its a bit mad. Too bad, I mean, that getting to know each just for a fleeting second
Must be replaced by unperfect knowledge of the featureless whole
Like some pocket history of the world, so general
As to constitute a sob or wail

John Ashbery

#13. It is before you - smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, 'Come and find out.' This one was almost featureless, as if still in the

Joseph Conrad

#14. To lose everything at such a glorious eternity is far sweeter than to win by plodding through a cautious, painless, featureless life.

Laurence Gonzales

#15. I have been in howling storms in which a shout is reduced to a whisper, moved across the sea's featureless face in a gray fog that does not yield to human eyes.

Robin Hobb

#16. For years of our lives the days pass waywardly, featureless, without meaning, without particular happiness or unhappiness. Then, like turning over a tapestry when you have only known the back of it, there is spread the pattern.

Jane Gardam

#17. Everyone seems agreed that writing about sex is perilous, partly because it threatens to swamp highly individualised characters in a generic, featureless activity (much like coffee-cup dialogue, during which everyone sounds the same), and partly because it feels ... tacky.

Edmund White

#18. God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.

C.S. Lewis

#19. Like Johns, I am one of the little men, not interested in ideologies, tied to a flat Cambridgeshire landscape, a chalk quarry, a line of willows across the featureless fields, a market town
his thoughts scrabbled at the curtain
where he used to dance at the Saturday hops.

Graham Greene

#20. The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.

Dave Barry

#21. Sicarius, as usual, regarded her with the blandness of a particularly featureless rock, then walked away.

Lindsay Buroker

#22. At last my liaison pulled up before a squat structure of poured concrete buttressed with steel, bleak and featureless, like a sepulcher for people who didn't believe in an afterlife.

James K. Morrow

#23. The Empire was quickly becoming the other, a featureless grey enemy that species of varied sorts would be able to stave off only if they united, all differences set aside. It was almost heartening to witness the dawn of hope, as cautious and fragile as it was.

James Luceno

#24. When you do try to picture the boys who do ask you out, they're absolutely featureless, like old carvings eroded by centuries of rain and wind.

Mary Karr

#25. As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#26. The more featureless and commonplace a crime is, the more difficult it is to bring it home.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#27. Trying to understand, inside, what it is to be Ugandan was crucial to the character, because there are Ugandan ways of doing things that I was trying to capture. Even if I had made this movie in South Africa, it would not have been the same, because it is so specific to Uganda.

Forest Whitaker

#28. One man is not enough.

Heather Locklear

#29. I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think ... peace and tranquillity will return again.

Anne Frank

#30. Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good.

Sarah J. Maas

#31. The attorney general of the United States had just admitted, in front of a room full of reporters, that he asks Wall Street for advice before he prosecutes Wall Street.

Matt Taibbi

#32. Good luck in there," he called out, but Avery was already a world away.

Katharine McGee

#33. Slowly the wasters and despoilers are impoverishing our land, our nature, and our beauty, so that there will not be one beach, one hill, one lane, one meadow, one forest free from the debris of man and the stigma of his improvidence.

Marya Mannes

#34. The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#35. To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to understand what they do understand.

Galileo Galilei

#36. I have absolutely no objection to performance and success as long as they don't become false idols and threaten to rule our lives.

Desmond Tutu

#37. There is no going back but there is accepting your new normal.

Jay Crownover

#38. Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

John Ralston Saul

#39. I brought a Border Collie back home to Vancouver from Wales - where some of my ancestors are from - and needed to challenge him in other ways than just being my pet. So I investigated sheep herding and took a few lessons, and decided I was probably learning more than my dog!

Jane Siberry