Wraithlike Quotes

#1. She was the kind of fatally pretty and nubile wraithlike figure who glides through the sweaty junior-high corridors of every nocturnal emitter's dreamscape.

David Foster Wallace

#2. 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

#3. Writers are always alone, even in a room bursting with noises of the familiar.

Rachel Thompson

#4. Won't know unless you try

Lorraine Heath

#5. There is no power without justice.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#6. In the world of art, as in the whole of creation, freedom and progress are the main objectives.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#7. Generally women are better than men
they have more character. I prefer men for some things, obviously, but women have a greater sense of honor and are more willing to take a chance with their lives.

Lauren Bacall

#8. Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done.

William Shakespeare

#9. It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life.

Michel Houellebecq

#10. Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor - they are too subtle to seem Spanish.

Antonio Munoz Molina