Washstand Quotes

#1. There were several completely mysterious electrical devices connected with the washstand, and the water valve did not cut off when you released the faucet but kept pouring out until shut off - a sign, Shevek thought, either of great faith in human nature, or of great quantities of hot water.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#2. The most grotesque and fantastic conceits haunted him in his bed at night. A universe of ineffable gaudiness spun itself out in his brain while the clock ticked on the washstand and the moon soaked with wet light his tangled clothes upon the floor.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#3. All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter ... a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.

Agatha Christie

#4. When you sit tranquilly, you set a great example to the people who rush around in panic and thus you show the crazy waves the beauty of being a calm lake!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. Right. The Briars. Just a second, Princess. Hey, Rusty," he called, motioning to Ironhorse, who pinned back his ears, "why don't you walk ahead of us, huh? I want your big ugly ass where I can see it.

Julie Kagawa

#6. One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I've spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I've always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us.

Condoleezza Rice

#7. Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.

Edmund Husserl

#8. Wealth without virtue is no harmless neighbor.

Sappho

#9. I know we're going to die. There's three of us who are going to do something about it.

Tom Burnett

#10. Every spot his mouth touches closes the empty spaces inside.

Christine Fonseca

#11. Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver.

Ivy Compton-Burnett