Tendril Quotes

#1. I still don't even know for sure what a tendril is.

Thomas Pynchon

#2. I think Illium can take care of himself."
"Not if he keeps flirting with you."
A fine, almost elegant tendril of heat, champagne and sunshine, decadence in the light.
"Raphael's not the sharing kind.

Nalini Singh

#3. Application when it comes to understanding the mysteries of creation or the fact that light can enter the eye and form an image in the brain and send a poetic tendril down the arm into a clutch of fingers that could write the Shakespearean sonnets.

James Lee Burke

#4. The true poem is the poet's mind; the true ship is the ship-builder. In the man, could we lay him open, we should see the reason for the last flourish and tendril of his work; as every spine and tint in the sea-shell preexist in the secreting organs of the fish.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. She approached me with enough sex appeal to stampede a businessmen's lunch and tilted her head to finger a stray, but not very stray, tendril of softly glowing hair. Her smile was tentative, but could be persuaded to be nice.

Raymond Chandler

#6. I love you," he murmured. "Oh, Bree, I do love you." She didn't answer, but a hand floated up from the dark and lay along his cheek, gentle as a tendril of seaweed. She kept it there while he took her, laid open in trust, while her other hand held his beating heart.

Diana Gabaldon

#7. That's it. It's all going to end.
The realization wasn't crushing. It was gentle, like a final tendril of smoke from a dying candle.

Brandon Sanderson

#8. Victory won't come
to me unless I go
to it; a grape tendril
ties a knot in knots till
knotted thirty times

Marianne Moore

#9. Come forth, old man,
thy daughter's side
Is now the fitting place for thee:
When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride,
The youthful tendril yet may hide,
The ruins of the parent tree.

Walter Scott

#10. His gentleness twined another tendril around her heart, until she was so entangled in him, she knew she'd never break free. For the first time in her life, her wolf had chosen. And it had chosen this lone wolf. "You have me," she whispered. All of me.

Nalini Singh

#11. I like character-driven stuff. It doesn't matter, the size of the part.

Steve Buscemi

#12. It's your Dom's job to look after you, protect you, to give you a safe place to express your desire to serve him.

Jaime Samms

#13. Let the gods into your life and you rapidly lose faith in the natural laws.

Megan Whalen Turner

#14. It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual.

Peter Garrett

#15. I like when people are very passionate about what they want to write about. Even if it's silly, you can be very passionate about it.

Judd Apatow

#16. Kneel!" he ordered.
My head raised in defiance, I stepped forward. "I am Princess Andrea de Montemaior. I will kneel to no one," I said to the shadows inside.

Carmen Ferreiro-Esteban

#17. He had all the self-preservation instincts of a bug near a shiny windshield.

Karen Chance

#18. Supernatural healing was a handy trick for an absentminded vampire, although it would make my enemies harder to kill. Tit for tat, I guess.

Chloe Neill

#19. Beware the inveterate punster, Doyle, it's a sure sign of brewing mental disturbance.

Mark Frost

#20. Little Bush says we are at war, but we are not at war because to be
at war Congress has to vote for it. He says we are at war on terror,
but that is a metaphor, though I doubt if he knows what that means.
It's like having a war on dandruff, it's endless and pointless.

Gore Vidal

#21. Anyway,' he said, without hearing me, 'that whole week he was gone, Bis sat next to the dumpster and didn't move, and we all thought he was waiting by the road for Arlo to come back. Except we had it wrong- he was waiting for us to find Arlo.

Tea Obreht

#22. Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.

Hans Kung

#23. You know its going to be a bad day when you are having a prostate examination and you feel both of your doctor's hands on your shoulders!

Michael Robotham

#24. Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions.

Steve Kerr

#25. If you don't live by priorities, you'll live by pressures. Either you determine what's important in life or other people will determine it for you.

Rick Warren