Wizened Quotes

#1. I sensed the presence of wizened bachelor potters working in sheds behind their mothers' houses.

Walter Kirn

#2. Wizened and white, with brown blotched on her face the size and complexity of unshelled peanuts, Midge had a jitter in her head that made her pew like a chicken trying to make up its mind what to peck.

John Irving

#3. We lied to ourselves thinking in our minds we knew everything. We were deceived in believing that youthful enthusiasm could replace wizened maturity.

Anna M. Aquino

#4. As he got older, Billy suspected, he would, Dicaprio-like, simply become like an increasingly wizened child.

China Mieville

#5. And so all of these thoughts overwhelmed me when I woke from my hiding place in an alley the next morning, having slept on garbage and filth, to find it - wearing a large gray hat, small as a child but with the wizened features of something already dead - staring down at me.

Jeff VanderMeer

#6. A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed.

Robertson Davies

#7. Imagine the wizened quality of a life blanched of contradiction and double standard.
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Michael Perry

#8. Clavain looked around the room, taking in the gruesome menagerie of wraithlike seniors, wizened elders and obscene glass-bottled end-state Conjoiners. They were all hanging on his answer, even the visible brains seeming to hesitate in their wheezing pulsations.

Alastair Reynolds

#9. Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce.

Neil Gaiman

#10. What's going on here?" asked a deep voice at her elbow.

Anne turned to find her guardian standing beside her. He looked solidly masculine and incredibly competent to deal with the child's wizened master and even with the spectators to what had turned into a near spectacle.

Gayle Wilson

#11. Is that the true, the supreme terror, to discover that I am the wizened youth whose cries no one can hear?

Roberto Bolano

#12. Scissors! Scissors! Have ye got yer ane scissors?? Are ye deaf??

Neil Gaiman

#13. The Lord supplies our needs, but not our selfishness

Rousas John Rushdoony

#14. Alma learned that her father drank out of bottles in the evening, and that those bottles sometimes contained danger (raised voices; banishment), but could also contain miracles - such

Elizabeth Gilbert

#15. Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#16. The Lord never gets tired of forgiving. "Never," Francis said. "We are the ones who get tired of asking him for forgiveness.

John L. Allen Jr.

#17. Nothing was really against her will. She got to own her life - her actions, her feelings and her decisions. So,

Serita Stevens

#18. I think it's horrible that we Turks are always seen under the aspect of Islam first. I am constantly asked about religion, and almost always with a negative undercurrent that makes me furious.

Orhan Pamuk

#19. When I started playing the game of baseball, the more I played and the better numbers I got, the more I started thinking about the Hall of Fame. But I never thought I had a chance to be there.

Roberto Alomar

#20. You understand reality while everyone else is running around confused and angry and upset because they think reality is something happening to them rather than something they are making every moment with every thought.

Andrew Hussie

#21. The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.

Jonathan Edwards

#22. Entrust everything to Me and do nothing on your own, and you will always have great freedom of spirit.

Mary Faustina Kowalska

#23. I sneaked out to his house a couple times in the middle of the night to watch over him while he slept, just in case, I dont know, his comic book collection decided to spontaneously combust. This was dumb and admittedly creepy in an Edward Cullen kind of way

Cynthia Hand

#24. It's like surgery. You can't close the patient's chest until you've found the wound and operated on it. The problem is the open chest, the wound is the challenge and the YES is the operation. You

Shonda Rhimes