Semblances Quotes

#1. From prescription, in the case of hypaethral edifices, open to the sky, in honor of Jupiter Lightning, the Heaven, the Sun, or the Moon: for these are gods whose semblances and manifestations we behold before our very eyes in the sky when it is cloudless and bright.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#2. Said, leaving Langdon and moving several yards to a portable table covered with investigation

Dan Brown

#3. To? Oh well, could be worse, she could be hearing voices, oh wait she was, well crap.
Loftis, Quinn (2011-06-29). Prince of Wolves (The Grey Wolves Series Book 1) (Kindle Locations 317-318). Kindle Edition.

Quinn Loftis

#4. If engines of love and power drive mankind, surely the bearings would burn to a frazzle without the oil of laughter.

Smoke Blanchard

#5. Western theology invariably asks the question: Are miracles possible? This of course addresses the Enlightenment problem of a closed universe. In much of Asia that is a non-question because the miraculous is assumed and fairly regularly experienced. - Hwa Yung

Craig S. Keener

#6. [I]t wasn't history that was too fragile, but me.

Jessi Kirby

#7. Oh, I inherited my emotions from Calandria May, and I understand now that each human has a ruling passion, one that serves as the fountainhead from which flow all semblances of happiness, sadness, anger, and joy.

Karl Schroeder

#8. Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

Nikola Tesla

#9. People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves.

Humphrey Bogart

#10. The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

Sigmund Freud

#11. Never put off until run time what you can do at compile time.

David Gries

#12. They Want You To Be A Docile Apathetic Consumer

Bill Hicks

#13. in order to move forward you have to stop looking back!

Shonda Cheekes

#14. Metaphors are our way of losing ourselves in semblances or treading water in a sea of seeming.

Roberto Bolano

#15. How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!

Marquis De Sade

#16. Duff's little moans traveled up her spine, made her head buzz. And another thought grabbed hold: She was doing this. She had the power to do this. THat she could be both completely vulnerable and totally in control was mind-blowing.

Libba Bray

#17. I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

Lisa Kleypas

#18. Come, blessed barrier between day and day,
Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!

William Wordsworth

#19. I would just randomly blurt out things like, 'What if a man showed up today and was carrying an umbrella, but it wasn't raining?' Eventually, people started to call me weird.

Lynn Coady