Top 43 Yellowed Quotes
#1. I want to be doing things today, not just flipping through crinkled and yellowed mental pictures of what happened a long time ago.
Bob Goff
#2. It was strange to think that one day I might have my own stack of yellowed photos to show skeptical grandchildren - and my own fantastic stories to share.
Ransom Riggs
#3. There is a lady dancing on a cracked plate. A withered spider on the carpet. A piano with a full set of yellowed teeth.
Conchitina Cruz
#4. His brittle, yellowed bones were splintered, crushed and shattered.
Steven Erikson
#5. He is looking down into the toilet bowl. He sees a bright shiny red ball, about the size of his fist, covered with blood and bobbing jauntily in the yellowed water. It throbs in time
with Ernest's pulse. It is his heart.
J. Mulrooney
#6. With arms shrunken to little more than bone and yellowed skin, the castaways waved and shouted,
Laura Hillenbrand
#8. Wide gape the gates of yellowed bone. A tongue of plank is our path between the teeth as we walk toward the gullet. Here I will be devoured. This is a true thing, near unavoidable on any path. I must enter those jaws.
Robin Hobb
#9. The wooden shelves were tall and packed with worn covers of books read many times over. Pages were yellowed and paperbacks had arched spines like old sway-backed horses. It was an old folks' home for secondhand books, with that smell of old newsprint and slightly musty wood smell.
Nathan Fillion
#10. For the most part they were dead by rumor. A yellowed scrap of newsprint. A letter. A telegram.
Cormac McCarthy
#11. I promised myself that I would talk to her before the summer was over, but schools reopened, the leaves reddened, yellowed, and fell, the rains of winter swept in and wakened Baba's joints, baby leaves sprouted once more, and I still hadn't had the heart, the dil, to even look her in the eye.
Khaled Hosseini
#12. His fingers were permanently yellowed with chalk dust rather than nicotine, but it was still the residue of an addicting substance.
Stephen King
#13. In this age when words have lost their value, this age that is therefore dominated by violent words, by words swollen and yellowed with starvation, I have lost the will to speak any more of words. My despair over words is not an admittance of defeat in life.
Kyung-Sook Shin
#14. Yet she resigned herself: reverently she put away in the chest of drawers her beautiful dress and even her satin shoes, whose soles had been yellowed by the slippery wax of the dance floor. Her heart was like them: contact with wealth had laid something over it that would not be wiped away.
Gustave Flaubert
#15. Sacha snaked one arm out from beneath the blankets and reached toward Cinder, grasping her wrist where skin met metal. Cinder squirmed, trying to pull away, but Sacha held tight. Her hand was marked by bluish pigment around her yellowed fingernails.
Marissa Meyer
#16. Voted worst in show the last two years got a refill on my tears another bottle of foam yellowed clear.
Old man twitching on the train reminds us of mortality
the snow everywhere reminds us of the rain.
Brendan Kelly
#17. sides yellowed by too many unfiltered Camels. The whole place had the feel of a neighborhood hangout for people too stupid to realize they were drinking away an enormous percentage of their
Julia Kent
#18. For what other reason might we cling to objects, old photographs, tarnished jewelry, yellowed letters? They're charms, little pieces of magic. When we touch them, we regain for a second what time has stolen or worn away.
Lisa Unger
#19. No matter how far back Ned searched in the brittle yellowed pages, always he found the gold yielding before the coal.
George R R Martin
#20. He flicked through the yellowed rough-cut pages and breathed its musty smell. It filled him with a strange excitement, as if he'd caught a whiff of ancient, buried cities.
Joan London
#21. What are these things that this houses, Eva?" Rovender picked up a crumbling tome. He handed it to her.
"These are books," Eva said as the yellowed bits of paper flaked away in her hands to rest on the floor. "It's what humans used to put all of their writing in long ago.
Tony DiTerlizzi
#22. Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening as if smacked and smacked again.
Daniel Woodrell
#23. Swiveling in his old wooden chair, the legs squeaking as if startled by the sudden movement, he glanced at the clock on the wall behind him and surveyed the time imprisoned behind its yellowed and crazed plastic dome.
Hugh Howey
#24. What action would not be futile, when a man could look upon his own aged, yellowed skull? Better they should enjoy their temporary lives, while they still had them to enjoy.
Philip K. Dick
#25. Lastly he looked at the face so caved and drawn among the folds of funeral cloth, the yellowed moustache, the eyelids paper thin. That was not sleeping. That was not sleeping.
Cormac McCarthy
#26. She devoutly put away in her drawers her beautiful dress, down to the satin shoes whose soles were yellowed with the slippery wax of the dancing floor. Her heart was like these. In its friction against wealth something had come over it that could not be effaced.
Gustave Flaubert
#27. The pages were yellowed and had gone to brown at the edges. They were brittle, much like the memories the photos evoked.
Michael Connelly
#28. Spring is the fresh green of young corn and the pink blush of blossoms. Autumn contrasts the yellowed foilage with violet hues. Winter is the white of snow against its black forms ... Summer is the contrast of blues and the golden bronze of the corn.
Vincent Van Gogh
#29. The coming years will prove increasingly cynical and cruel. People will definitely not slip into oblivion while hugging each other. The final stages in the life of humanity will be marked by the monstrous war of all against all: the amount of suffering will be maximal.
Pentti Linkola
#31. The worth of a faith does not consist in the clarity with which it is stated but in the steadfastness with which it is defended.
Kurt Hahn
#32. Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.
Alberto Manguel
#33. The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.
Hanya Yanagihara
#34. I don't try to live the life of my character but I think it's inevitable that there is some carry-over into your life.
Toni Collette
#36. I like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone.
Joe Wright
#37. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?
Swami Vivekananda
#38. The only book I ever read cover to cover was The Pete Rose Story. I read half of The Lou Gehrig Story and then made a book report on it for four straight years.
Pete Rose
#39. The Bush-Cheney administration had betrayed some basic American values. So there was hunger for change.
Al Gore
#40. When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything.
Robert Duvall
#41. The children-my own and other people's-became the passion of my personal and professional life.
Hillary Clinton
#42. Spirituality is not primarily about values and ethics, not about exhortations to do right or live well. The spiritual traditions are primarily about reality ... an effort to penetrate the illusions of the external world and to name its underlying truth.
Parker J. Palmer
#43. Time helps a lot. I found the fame thing really was a torment for a while. Then you learn to deal with it.
Mel Gibson
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