Passages famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I don't expect that because I was successful in one field that I will then get a ride of passage into another.
-- Agyness Deyn -
In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.
-- Alberto Manguel -
It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground.
-- Bob Seger -
Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'
-- Cesare Lombroso -
There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it.
-- Charles de Saint-Evremond -
The passage is through, not over, not by, not around but through.
-- Cherrie Moraga -
This life is but the passage of a day, This life is but a pang and all is over; But in the life to come which fades not away Every love shall abide and every lover.
-- Christina Rossetti -
Sometimes I feel that 'Footloose' is the rite of passage.
-- Craig Brewer -
Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.
-- Gemma Ward -
Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage.
-- Hank Nuwer -
The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless
-- Haruki Murakami -
Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.
-- Helene Cixous -
Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.
-- Henry Vaughan -
We're building on an international network with many others for the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. There are so many things we can do to carry forward policies.
-- Janet Reno -
I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.
-- Jonathan Swift -
That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.
-- Jonathan Swift -
The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.
-- Joyce Carol Oates -
If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.
-- Joyce Johnson -
What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.
-- Justin Cronin -
It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.
-- Juvenal -
My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.
-- Kenny Loggins -
To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.
-- Lance Henriksen -
A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.
-- Maurice Jarre -
Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.
-- Nadine Gordimer -
What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.
-- Natalie Clifford Barney -
There are secret passages all around you if you know where to look for them.
-- Steven Carroll -
You look older.†“Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person.
-- Veronica Roth -
Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
-- Walt Whitman -
One thing the passage of time has shown me is that you never know how you'll behave in a situation until you're in that situation yourself.
-- Christine Sneed
