Serpentine Quotes

#1. Mine was an apparent forward movement whereas Burley's was a continuous serpentine movement.

Archie Moore

#2. On each of two porches lie big chunks of serpentine - smooth as talc, mottled black and green. When you see rocks like that on a porch, a geologist is inside.

John McPhee

#3. On Christmas Day I'll head off for a couple of laps around the Serpentine, or a trek around the whole of Hyde Park. Or I'll walk right across town, with Curtis, my son Jamie's bull mastiff

Stella Vine

#4. The serpentine line, or the line of grace, by its waving and winding at the same time different ways, leads the eye in a pleasing manner along the continuity of its variety.

William Hogarth

#5. Mountains have long-lost kinfolk on the other side of the Atlantic. The bloodline that marks that kinship is a vein of a green mineral called serpentine ...

Sharyn McCrumb

#6. Still, his scars, combined with the serpentine wound now visible without the bandage covering his shoulder, made him all the more dangerous.
He was, to me, terrifyingly beautiful.

Kristen Simmons

#7. Behind us I saw the water, still welling up from the tunnel, curving round in a frothing serpentine torrent to plunge down the other descending passage. For a moment we all sat there and watched, numb and exhausted.

Kenneth Oppel

#8. But it is serpentine logic, for it simply compounds the old legal spirit. It is the natural instinct of the once-antinomian prodigal who, when awakened, thinks in terms of working his way back into the favor of his father.38

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#9. Mountain bats, those massive serpentine creatures of myth. Those ancient scavengers of the battlefield.

Susan Dennard

#10. Sometimes, the shortest path between two points is serpentine,

Christopher Benfey

#11. Yes, she was a scandal.
Her brother simply didn't know it.
"I fell in the Serpentine today."
"Yes, well, that doesn't usually happen to women in London. But it's not so much of a scandal as it is a challenge.

Sarah MacLean

#12. Believe that severity, violence, slavery, danger in the street and in the heart, secrecy, stoicism, tempter's art and devilry of every kind, - that everything wicked, terrible, tyrannical, predatory, and serpentine in man, serves as well for the elevation of the human species as its opposite

Friedrich Nietzsche

#13. As the serpentine expanse of glass drew open, the city seemed to wrap around them: rooftop gardens with stunted trees in pots, water towers like chunky flying saucers, the spires of distant skyscrapers.

Scott Westerfeld

#14. In these matters, the cardinal says, there is no measure of time; these spirits slip from our hands and through the ages, serpentine, mutable, sly.

Hilary Mantel

#15. There are so many songs in me that haven't been born yet. So I can't call myself a genius, but I never turn away a compliment, and I feel like I'm on my way to that mountain.

R. Kelly

#16. I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.

Sherman Alexie

#17. There were times when I'd bench players for their lack of effort. We worked very hard on fundamentals, which was the Dodger way. We needed to be more aggressive.

Dick Williams

#18. Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#19. To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.

Alan Bennett

#20. In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

Sophie Swetchine

#21. You can't die with an unfinished book.

Terry Pratchett

#22. Me as an artist, I've ventured off into doing all types of music. I'll do a jazz album, you know what I mean.

Common

#23. a slow walker, but I never walk back. ABRAHAM LINCOLN

Cheryl Strayed

#24. When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.

Barbara Tuchman

#25. Hang (hang without fail, so the people see) no fewer than one hundred known kulaks, rich men, bloodsuckers.

Vladimir Lenin

#26. This is as brain-dead as a movie can be and it assumes the audience will have the I.Q. of a rutabaga.

James Berardinelli

#27. I have no wisdom and nothing useful to tell you - I only mentioned this because it came into my head.

Russell Hoban

#28. If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.

Peter Singer