Quotes About Sundial

#1. There is something eternally satisfying about lying motionless for hours on end, watching the world move around us like the shadow on a sundial.

Fennel Hudson

#2. An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade.

Confucius

#3. I am a sundial, and I make a botch
Of what is done much better by a watch.

Hilaire Belloc

#4. The Bible without the Holy Spirit is a sundial by moonlight.

Dwight L. Moody

#5. Hide not your talents, they for use were made,
What's a sundial in the shade?

Benjamin Franklin

#6. She looked as if she were a vampire about to check the time - with a sundial.

Kresley Cole

#7. I'm very damn wet!' he said aloud to the sundial.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#8. A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.

John Hodgman

#9. Every so many years, he went to England to visit - judging by the photographs he showed us - a sundial and some oak trees.

Jorge Luis Borges

#10. Architectural photography can involve a lot of waiting; the building becomes a kind of sundial, while you wait for a shadow to crawl away from a detail you want, or for the mass and balance of the structure to reveal itself in a certain way.

William Gibson

#11. Old sundial, you stand here for Time:
For Love, the vine that round your base
Its tendrils twines, and dares to climb
And lay one flower-capped spray in grace
Without the asking on your cold
Unsmiling and unfrowning face.

Eleanor Farjeon

#12. THREE DAYS LATER A MESSAGE WAS LEFT UNDER A PEBBLE UPON THE SUNDIAL." "'If it really annoys you, Hilton, we might go and travel, you and I, and so avoid this nuisance.' "'What, be driven out of our own house by a practical joker?

Arthur Conan Doyle

#13. I didn't grow up in a small New England town like the one in 'The Sundial.' I was raised in an apartment building in Queens, not in a sprawling, slightly sinister mansion like the one where the Halloran family resides.

Victor LaValle

#14. I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather.

Bernard Levin

#15. Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones.

Arthur Rackham

#16. Autumn
The cheerful sundial;
it falls in the shadow
of thy leaves.
there
where your branches
brace themselves
against the gate of heaven

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#17. She kept talking and she kept talking. I thought she would never stop. Standing there, I felt the sun pour through the windows, setting and rising on my back. The sunroom had become a sundial measuring the geological age of my psychological toture.

Paul Tremblay

#18. She was so ugly that her face could stop a sundial.

Rodney Dangerfield

#19. She was still developing her sundial theory of art, which would count no hours but the sunny ones.

Wallace Stegner

#20. I wish you wouldn't have given the sundial bracelet to Terease"

"Why?" I question and press my head onto his chest, pushing my arms back into his open jacket and around his back.

"If I had it to lead me to my deepest desire, I know it would always be a direct path to you.

Michelle Warren

#21. 'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.

Victor LaValle

#22. The history of Hillary Clinton as a five-year senator is to promote Hillary Clinton and not the needs of New Yorkers.

John Spencer

#23. I bleed like nobody else.

Ric Flair

#24. I grew up in Westlake Villiage, a suburb of L.A. There was a guy there who was a fighter and was like, 'I'll teach you to box.' I started a little bit of boxing, then it crossed over into jiu-jitsu. I was into it for a little while, but then I started doing basketball, baseball, team sports.

Jonathan Lipnicki

#25. She told herself that she was happy to meet her executioner.

Sarah MacLean

#26. Because of what I loved at 7, I still get jobs in my 60's. Guess who got the job? Crazy Ray.
Ray Bradbury

Sherri Rabinowitz

#27. I love to sing, but it's just not fun anymore.

Whitney Houston

#28. So unlike having to convert, you know, all the cars' or all the lorries' petrol stations, once you've actually got the clean fuels, it's relatively easy to, you know, get it to the airplanes.

Richard Branson

#29. Getting to know him made me take a real good look at myself. I don't like what I see. I want to be honest with him but I've spent so long lying to everyone, I don't even really know who I am anymore.

Mary Jane Hathaway

#30. Rhodes, founder of the De Beers diamond company and at one time the virtual dictator of modern-day South Africa, famously declared, "We Britons are the first race in the world, and the more of the world we inhabit, the better it is for the human race." Among

Reza Aslan

#31. Remember darlings when your enemies are great God is greater.

Coleen Innis

#32. I have been told by a member of the board of one of Canada's most prominent literary magazines that a submission of mine once caused a great deal of controversy.

John Barton