Unswept Quotes

#1. Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. (Off topic, but: What a slut time is.

John Green

#2. this heart yearns...
for the salt of unsmelt air
unswept thunderstorms...
unknown adventures.

Sanober Khan

#3. Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer.

Brand Blanshard

#4. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments / Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; / But you shall shine more bright in these contents / Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time.

John Green

#5. What custom wills, in all things should we do't,
The dust on antique time would lie unswept,
And mountainous error be too highly heaped
For truth to o'erpeer.

William Shakespeare

#6. She's dark and heavy-browed and has a mouth like unswept glass - when you least expect it she cuts you.

Junot Diaz

#7. I'll bring boys home if I haven't cleaned my apartment.
I'll let them see the dishes in my sink,
the mascara rubbed into my pillowcases,
my unswept floors. Think, if we are seeing each other
undressed and blemished from the sun,
what is a dirty fork?

Kristina Haynes

#8. I'd like to work with horses, but it doesn't pay very well. Maybe I'd like to go somewhere in the Middle East because they keep buying really nice horses for their Olympic teams - like, the Qataris.

Edie Campbell

#9. Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified.

Vannevar Bush

#10. You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained ... and exhausted. So that ... That in effect was love.

Ford Madox Ford

#11. The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation.

Joseph Campbell

#12. You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.

H.R. Giger

#13. Ask the dust on the road! Ask the Joshua trees standing alone where the Mojave begins. Ask them about Camilla Lopez, and they will whisper her name.

John Fante