Quotes of: Edgar Keyword

Thou art a very ragged Wart.

Henry IV, Part 2

When time is reduced to linear progress, it is emptied of presence.

Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

Bastard Out of Carolina

I would like people to remember of me, how inexhaustible was her mindfulness.

Blue Horses: Poems

'But even I know that in your line of work, there's a difference between being a volunteer and being volun-told.'

Burn

The world was full of forces you couldn't fight against which suddenly loomed up and aimed a crushing blow at you.

The Birds

Seven smirked as he walked back over to me. "I gave you catharsis last night. Twice.

Burn

the threat of Jewish competition was taken away, but so were the Jewish customers

The Book Thief

Outside the open window The morning air is all awash with angels.

Collected Poems, 1943-2004

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Alan Watts

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

Joyce Meyer

When I first left Iran at the age of 13, Iran had become such a shining star - it was the point to which all my desires and dreams returned.

Azar Nafisi

When I was very young - around the age of nine - my family used to go to a house in Somerset that my stepfather rented every summer. There was fishing, lakes and riding.

Christopher Lee

Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and I've been a guitar junkie ever since.

Johnny Marr

And often it would be a woman who was in her 70s or 80s who would win the beauty contest, because bound feet never age.

Lisa See

I've been very lucky and I have a happy old age with good family and friends still around.

Maeve Binchy

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

Mary Wollstonecraft

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.

Rita Dove

I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.

Seamus Heaney

Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.

Annie Dillard

Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine By which alone the mortal heart is led Unto the thinking of the thought divine.

George Santayana