Quotes of: Fond Keyword

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

Robert Sheckley

Thanks to our artists, we pretend well, living under canopies of painted clouds and painted gods, in halls of marble floors across which the sung Masses paint hope in deep impatsi of echo. We make of the hollow world a fuller, messier, prettier place...

Mirror Mirror

He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling.

The Complete Stories and Poems

De nouveau il entendit la porte s'ouvrir, et, calme, du fond de la chambre, il vit venir à lui sa dernière heure.

A Dark Stranger

The pile of stones thus marks both an act of deliberate remembrance, and an act of deliberate forgetting. They're fond of paradox in that region.

The Blind Assassin

But I remember the place with fondness ... not perfect but, all in all, not a bad memory.

The Season of Second Chances

Tibby, who was not fond of change, had once told Bridget that the present, no matter what it brought, couldn't change the past. The past was set and sealed.

Sisterhood Everlasting

Maybe that's why Jesus was so fond of parables: Nothing describes the indescribable like a good yarn.

Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace

to understand pretending," Ombric was fond of saying, "is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King

He was fond of saying, "There is a bravery of the priest as well as the bravery of a colonel of dragoons,--only," he added, "ours must be tranquil.

Les Misérables

…although her mouth uttered fond words, her eyes spoke only venom.

Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

They are fond of fun and therefore witty, wit being well-bred insolence.

The Rhetoric & The Poetics of Aristotle

We are very fond of books. You can learn nearly everything from them that rabbits can't teach you.

Here Be Monsters!

I don't think there is really a favorite, I'm very fond of film making as a whole and as a medium and of course, there are some that I've enjoyed making more than others but I've enjoyed making all of them.

Peter Cushing

My only self-confidence and satisfaction comes from the people that I do meet; I have fondness for people. I mean, I like to hug. And I also like to be hugged.

Teresa Heinz

From the warmth of her fondness for her horse she constructed a fragile and changeable thing that almost resembled courage. She hoped it would be enough.

Kristin Cashore

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

Lyman Abbott

Real people are places to me as much as persons: I want to see them, as I want to see the places I am fond of, in all weathers and at all times of the year.

Leonard Alfred George Strong

People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times.

Leo Tolstoy