Yellowing Quotes

#1. The oldest pictures were faded and yellowing, and Colin thought about how even in pictures of their youth, old people look old.

John Green

#2. Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.

Nadine Gordimer

#3. When I wake up, the dying light of the day makes everything seem to matter, from the yellowing sky to the stalks of grass above my head, waving in slow motion like a beauty queen.

John Green

#4. Flipped through memories like old copies of National Geographic, pages in a yellowing high-school year book, cable-television channels looking for a baseball game.

Dennis Vickers

#5. The world is sagging, snagging, scaling, spalling, pilling, pinging, pitting, warping, checking, fading, chipping, cracking, yellowing, leaking, stalling, shrinking, and in dynamic unbalance.

Donald Barthelme

#6. The sunset of all emotions, myself yellowing, subdued to grey sadness in my external self-awareness

Pessoa

#7. Demons do tend to cluster around the yellowing pages and cracked spines of second hand books.

Graham Joyce

#8. Within, there were several ponderous brazen-bound volumes of medieval date, a thin manuscript of yellowing parchment, and two portraits whose faces had been turned to the wall, as if it were unlawful for even the darkness of the sealed closet to behold them.

Clark Ashton Smith

#9. The pages were yellowing a tad but sometimes it was best to go old school for reliable facts. The internet was a flaky and unreliable tool sometimes.

M.E. Harmon

#10. The art of happiness is being content with what you have,' she would say, looking with apparent satisfaction out of the dusty windows at the garden, yellowing like an uncut hayfield in the October sunshine.

Philippa Gregory

#11. We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

Theodore Bikel

#12. Agonizing really, how enduring love can be. Even after you have packed it up and put it away, it is still there - always there, yellowing around the edges and begging you to turn its pages again.

Tina L. Hook

#13. Laughed with him over black coffee, cried with him over yellowing pictures, talked greenly about having kids of her own,

Jonathan Safran Foer

#14. In the beginning, though, they had been friends. Or, at least, friends to the extent that men like Ove and Rune were capable of being friends."
p. 81

Fredrik Backman

#15. My family believe you should never be flashy about anything. Maybe that handicapped me a little bit, that extreme humility.

Kelly Reilly

#16. I must not only keep alive, but I must be as strong as granite, so that no matter how much I was knocked about, I could remain unbroken.

Nien Cheng

#17. Thrillers are an enormous amount of fun for filmmakers.

John McTiernan

#18. There will never be "the right time" in your life to do a great thing.
You must create that time and greatness will follow.

JohnA Passaro

#19. Any item of clothing that covers the face and makes it impossible to identify individuals is open to abuse.

Maajid Nawaz