Quotes of: Christmas-tree Keyword

That streetside tree is obscuring the air. Cut it down. Haul it in for questioning. There are secrets within that foliage. You might want to separate the branches in different rooms and apply some elementary game theory.” “Question a plant?” �...

A Story That Talks about Talking Is Like Chatter to Chattering Teeth, and Every Set of Dentures Can Attest to the Fact That No..

AUTUMNAL Pale amber sunlight falls across The reddening October trees, That hardly sway before a breeze As soft as summer: summer's loss Seems little, dear! on days like these. Let misty autumn be our part! The twilight of the year is sweet: Where sh...

The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson

The moon grew plump and pale as a peeled apple, waned into the passing nights, then showed itself again as a thin silver crescent in the twilit western sky. The shed of leaves became a cascade of red and gold and after a time the trees stood skeletal...

Wildwood Boys

According to an ancient Chinese legend, one day in the year 240 B.C., Princess Si Ling-chi was sitting under a mulberry tree when a silkworm cocoon fell into her teacup. When she tried to remove it, she noticed that the cocoon had begun to unravel in...

Middlesex

Wise Blood was written by an author congenitally innocent of theory, but one with certain preoccupations. That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would prefer to think it a matter of no g...

Flannery O'Connor

It's definitely difficult being a woman and growing up a girl. When you're graceful, people say you lack personality; when you're serene, people say you're boring; when you're confident, people say you're arrogant; when you're feminine, people say yo...

C. JoyBell C.

Dennis Nedry: [Nedry walks into a tree branch] Oh, Jesus Christ! [hears something] Dennis Nedry: Hello? [a dinosaur pokes its head out from behind the tree] Dennis Nedry: Yeah, yeah that's nice. Gotta' go! [the dinosaur is right behind Nedry now] Den...

Jurassic Park

No trees, sky or ground. No other buildings or fields. No winding path, no brambles, no outhouse or pond or flowers, no sunshine or children playing. Just blackness.

Coma House

Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

The Complete Poems

We were of thirteen minds, like a tree, in which there is one Red-tail and eleven squirrel parts.

Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

Knowledge leads to deception; talent and ability only serve to increase earthly desires.

A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees

Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die! -Posthumus Leonatus Act V, Scene V

Cymbeline

She collapsed. I stepped forward and caught her. I thought of two trees nearly unrooted and leaning against each other.

The Dog Stars

The recent Dictionary of Occupational Titles lists over twenty thousand specialized professions in America; being a millionaire is not one of them.

The Devil Tree

Jack laughed behind him, a mirthless sound from a man who had been on the wrong end of life's ironies too many times.

The Elephant Tree

We were left with nothing because of a love like acid that ate its way through our entire family.

The Elephant Tree

Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.

The Elephant Tree

Consider and then act, don't react. A worthy opponent will calculate his move to entice a response from you. Make your own play.

The Elephant Tree

The best time to plan a tree was twenty years ago; the second best time is now.

The Fugazi of Room 39

...you can be talented as a wolf is breathtakingly fierce...silver and gray, like smoke in the trees - but what do you do with terrible beauty?...

A Familiar Rain

No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing to behold.

The Forest for the Trees