"And Derek was... what? A pair of dark eyes that hid more than they revealed and some broad shoulders and a mouth that could be cold and thin and then suddenly widen into a generous grin just when you thought such a thing was impossible."

-- Claire LaZebnik

#Eye Quotes #Dark Quotes #Mouths Quotes

“I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.”
“I just used to love the sound of especially a female vocal like Ella Fitzgerald for example, it's just that empowering self-control that can make a whole room go silent. I fell in love with that sound.”
“Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house.”
“We have entered a new phase of culture - we may call it the Age of the Cinema - in which the most amazing perfection of scientific technique is being devoted to purely ephemeral objects, without any consideration of their ultimate justification. It seems as though a new society was arising which will acknowledge no hierarchy of values, no intellectual authority, and no social or religious tradition, but which will live for the moment in a chaos of pure sensation.”

Source : Christopher Dawson (2001). “Progress and Religion: An Historical Inquiry (The Works of Christopher Dawson)”, p.176, CUA Press
“My hips don't lie and I don't lie either!”
“The fact that you can forge a twenty dollar bill doesn't prove that all twenty dollar bills are forgeries.”
“We must dissent from the fear.”
“I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.”

Source : "Still Walters" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2002.

You may also like: