Thumbelina Book Quotes

#1. A dirty, joyous, bare-limbed freedom, which rose in his imagination like a vast airy cathedral, ruined perhaps, roofless, fan-vaulted to the skies, where they would weightlessly drift upward in a powerful embrace ...

Ian McEwan

#2. Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will.

Blaise Pascal

#3. Uh, Alex," Enrique laughs. "There's a trick-or-treater here to see you.

Simone Elkeles

#4. My heart stopped talking because it didn't want to talk anymore for a while.

Ray Bradbury

#5. In fashion, I think I make mistakes every day.

Renzo Rosso

#6. On the field of battle, the spoken word does not carry far enough; hence the institution of gongs and drums ... banners and flags. Gongs and drums, banners and flags, are means whereby the ears and eyes of the host may be focused on one particular point.

Sun Tzu

#7. I didn't want to look distinguished; I wanted to look fun, and also to fade into the street, into the King's Road. If I don't fade into a room at White's, that's fine. My father was chairman of Brooks' and the Beefsteak, and I was brought up in that life, and it bores me rigid.

Nicholas Haslam

#8. I'm fully aware that every time I do anything, good or bad, somebody's watching.

Chauncey Billups

#9. The constant tug-of-war between 'YES, I WANT TO GO EXPERIENCE EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW' and 'Wow, I need a lot of time to process these experiences, can I take a breather?

Heidi Priebe

#10. (Acting) is an extension of life. How you're capable of performing in your life, that's how you're capable of performing on screen.

John Cassavetes

#11. I think the role of the Federal Reserve is enormously exaggerated.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#12. You know you're having a crappy morning when the best that can be said for it is that at least you're not a Smurf.

FayJay

#13. Show up here." "Let's go then," she said on a breathy sigh. "Not yet." The music thrummed, rising to a loud crescendo, and so did Fiona's pulse, pounding in her ears while Scorpio's fingertip grazed the lace edging of her panties.

Cindy Gerard

#14. I won't be able to run with ghosts and slip down dark alleyways in quite the swift and stealthy fashion that I do now; but perhaps children will be amused by my hippopotamic heroics, and no one will disagree that bringing laughter to children in a dark world is admirable.

Dean Koontz