(5 quotes found)
“It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.”
Wallace Stevens
“Without an adversary, prowess shrivels.”
Seneca
“Something as artificial and human as an hour wouldn't last five minutes here. It would be dried out and shrivelled up in seconds.”
Terry Pratchett
“The little, meagre, shrivelled, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.”
Edmund Burke
“Listen to me while I lay a curse upon you and yours! she cries, as she raised her shriveled arms and blighted him with her flashing eyes: "As you have done to the house of Loring, so may God do to you, until your power is swept from the land of England, and of your great Abbey of Waverley there is nothing left but a pile of grey stones in a green meadow! I see it! With my old eyes I see it! From scullion to abbot and from cellar to tower, may Waverley and all within it droop and wither from this night on!"”
Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.
