The constrained lives of his characters made me wonder how my own existence might appear in his hands.
When we kissed, the skies had never appeared more heavenly, nor the seas a more brilliant shade of sapphire blue.
He caught his breath, not because of her bedraggled appearance, but rather because of the way she stood, so straight and tall. Courageous.
That was the way illness appeared in a house, in the corners, in between floorboards, on the hooks in the closet, along with the sweaters and coats.
Comedy was one of those genres that while appearing quite jolly was actually highly dangerous.
Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
A woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's pretty or she isn't. But her character is quite another matter.
The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.
Through the metal grating on my carrier door, Adrian's face suddenly appeared, peering in at me. "What new, pussycat?
Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.
A wicked curve appears on his lips. “No, you’re wrong. I’m allowed to say whatever I want. What I’m not allowed to do is what I want.
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
The city was dark except for the building lights that seemed to appear like sores - like bandaids had been ripped off to expose the city's skin.
She’d fallen into a deep silence once, when the sun appeared, and it was then he’d wondered most what she was thinking.
If Fancy's lips had been real cherries probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained.
At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in bursts like this every couple of years and only with the best quality artists.
The one appearance that I made for President Kennedy, he, as I understand, had his choice or was asked to make a list of the people he would like to have perform, and I was fortunate enough to be one of them.
For me, drum elements are like hieroglyphics - I think of a certain physical figure, and a little three-dimensional glyph will appear in my mind as I'm playing.
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy.
When I first appeared, people couldn't figure out whether I was gay, straight, black, white or whatever, and I loved that. I loved the fact it scares people.
