(101 quotes found)
“The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power.”
Maya Angelou
“Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.”
Mark Twain
“A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once not oftener.”
“The Ganges front is the supreme showplace of Benares. Its tall bluffs are solidly caked from water to summit, along a stretch of three miles, with a splendid jumble of massive and picturesque masonry, a bewildering and beautiful confusion of stone platforms, temples, stair flights, rich and stately palaces....soaring stairways, sculptured temples, majestic palaces, softening away into the distances; and there is movement, motion, human life everywhere, and brilliantly costumed - streaming in rainbows up and down the lofty stairways, and massed in metaphorical gardens on the mile of great platforms at the river's edge.”
“Mauritius was made first, and then heaven; and that heaven was copied after Mauritius.”
“It was a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday.”
“A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The description of the animal from the golfers matched that of a coyote. The animal was lying down and then wandered off.”
Ashe Reardon
“Description is a story well told already; experience offers truth.”
Dejan Stojanovic
