Quotes About Previous Days

#1. Overhead the sky was dull and cloudless, a bland impassive blue, more the interior ceiling of some deep irrevocable psychosis than the storm-filled celestial sphere he had known during the previous days.

J.G. Ballard

#2. The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.

Vladimir Nabokov

#3. No one pronounced Jerusalems Lot dead
on the morning of October 6;
no one knew it was.
Like the bodies of previous days
it retained every semblace of life

Stephen King

#4. A military man's courtship rites may not be poetic, but then, they're not cryptic, either. Even if he's bashful, when he fancies you, you know it, because you can't hide a lover's blush under the Army's signature high-and-tight haircut.

Lily Burana

#5. Everything in Venice is just a little bit creepy, as much as it's beautiful.

Christopher Moore

#6. With her mother, Leeda acted a lot.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#7. For the first forty days a child
is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths,
a hundred small lessons
and then the past is erased.

Michael Ondaatje

#8. They think him the best dressed man, whose dress is so fit for his use that you cannot notice or remember to describe it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. I had been to Jeddah on my previous trip, so I knew it well enough. There was only one thing to recommend it: say, you wanted to commit suicide and couldn't quite find the courage, two days in Jeddah would do the trick.

Terry Hayes

#10. Serving others is the best way of applying our faith in such a way that it leads to real transformation and change.

Bob Roberts Jr.

#11. Jared glared balefully at the old man, his eyes full of the shock and pain of the betrayed. I had only human comparisons for such a look. Caesar and Brutus, Jesus and Judas.

Stephenie Meyer

#12. Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer a Second Assistant Librarian of the Great Library of the Clayr. Those days were gone, vanished with everything else that had defined her previous existence and identity.

Garth Nix

#13. The passage, "And He rested on the seventh day" (Exod. xx. 11) is interpreted as follows: On the seventh Day the forces and laws were complete, which during the previous six days were in the state of being established for the preservation of the Universe. They were not to be increased or modified.

Maimonides

#14. So many days in their shared life. So many experiences. How had they managed to spend the previous sixteen years unlearning each other?

Jonathan Safran Foer

#15. Every day I beat my own previous record for the number of consecutive days I've stayed alive.

George Carlin

#16. The greenhouse effect is something you can observe experimentally - and most people have observed the greenhouse effect themselves, in greenhouses. Yes?

Nicholas Stern

#17. Necessity is the mother of self-delusion.

Hugh Laurie

#18. All life is related. And it enables us to construct with confidence the complex tree that represents the history of life

David Attenborough

#19. ...the pleasures of literary fiction are the pleasures of orientation; the pleasures of literature are the pleasures of bewilderment.

Toby Litt

#20. I did private study for about a month, five days a week, six hours a day. I came to understand the character in ways that I never would've previous to that. I was so innocent in respect to ways of creating characters.

Corin Nemec

#21. I do think there is room at the very top for marginal tax changes.

Richard Hanna

#22. He therefore proceeded to build a bridge a little above the place where he had crossed before. As the method of construction was familiar to the soldiers from the previous occasion, they were able by energetic efforts to complete the task in a few days.

Gaius Iulius Caesar