Sulphurous Quotes

#1. The sun, an hour above the horizon, is poised like a bloody egg upon a crest of thunderheads; the light has turned copper: in the eye portentous, in the nose sulphurous, smelling of lightning.

William Faulkner

#2. Frosty winter evenings, patterns of ice forming on the window panes outside, fresh coal piled on the red embers, and the fire spurting sulphurous flames of blue and green.

Marjorie Eccles

#3. And then there is, of course, always, and inevitably, this spume of poetry that's just blowing out of the sulphurous flue-holes of the earth. Just masses of poetry. It's unstoppable, it's uncorkable. There's no way to make it end.

Nicholson Baker

#4. There's hell, there's darkness, there is the sulphurous pit; burning, scalding, stench, consumption!

Nelson DeMille

#5. Padre always told me me language was sulphurous.

Kerry Greenwood

#6. The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.

D.H. Lawrence

#7. Sulphurous wind gusted in his wake; the dust of the street swirled and the folds of his black coat flapped against his thin body.

A.F. Stewart

#8. Hobbits do not like heights, and do not sleep upstairs, even when they have any stairs.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#9. I could be accused of being a wannabe tribesman, of wanting to be a tribal dude, but that is not how I see it. I see it as me doing what they wanted me to do, showing them respect and hanging out with them.

Bruce Parry

#10. Perhaps you're right; we don't ever regain what we lightly lose.

Winston Graham

#11. Women's place is where they can do the most good.

Esther Peterson

#12. It's all right to put the weight of the world on your shoulders sometimes, if you know how to take it off.

James Patterson