Quotes of: High-maintenance Keyword

it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.

Zig Ziglar

In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards are quite high.

John Banville

When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain, Before high piled books, in charact’ry, Hold like rich garners the full-ripen’d grain; When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face, Huge cloudy symbols of...

The Complete Poems

Do you trust Arman, Highness?' 'Yes, but--' 'No buts. Either you trust Him or you don't.' Achan shifted in his chair. 'Maybe I don't, then.' 'I agree. you don't trust Him fully or you'd know you did. Arman wants your trust, Highness. When he asks som...

From Darkness Won

So if I asked you to wear my skirt and juggle my high heels, you would?” I joked. I could only see Andrew's face in profile, but a grin overtook his earlier grim expression, and he laughed. “I draw the line at wearing women’s clothing.” “Ar...

Fallen Legion

The course of the Rhine below Mainz becomes much more picturesque. The river descends rapidly and winds between hills, not high, but steep, and of beautiful forms. We saw many ruined castles standing on the edges of precipices, surrounded by black wo...

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley: Classic Annotated and Illustrated 1818 'Uncensored' Edition: The Modern Prometheus

To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you. You could take your treasure with you ...

A Moveable Feast

Falling in love is like getting hit by a truck and yet not being mortally wounded. just sick to your stomach, high one minute, low the next. Starving hungry but unable to eat. hot, cold, forever horny, full of hope and enthusiasm, with momentary depr...

Lucky

Yet there was always in me, even when I was very small, the sense that I ought to be somewhere else. And wander I did, although, in my everyday life, I had nowhere to go and no imaginable reason on earth why I should want to leave. The buses took to ...

How Reading Changed My Life

Balance is key. In everything you do. Dance all night long and practice yoga the next day. Drink wine but don’t forget your green juice. Eat chocolate when your heart wants it and kale salad when your body needs it. Wear high heels on Saturday and ...

Rachel Brathen

In the field I’m in, there is a lot of that and it gets offered to me all the time. People even go as far as to just stick it in your pocket and walk off. Now, if it was a good thing, they wouldn’t do that. I mean, would somebody drop something b...

Michael Jackson

Countries with a high percentage of nonbelievers are among the freest, most stable, best-educated, and healthiest nations on earth. When nations are ranked according to a human-development index, which measures such factors as life expectancy, litera...

Greg Graffin

Crown Prince Leopold: Has he tricked you? Is that it? Chief Inspector Uhl: No, Your Highness. Crown Prince Leopold: Then why are you failing me? I thought I could trust you. I thought you were a man I could bring with me when I took the throne. Am I ...

The Illusionist

Pan: Quickly Your Majesty, give him to me. The full moon is high in the sky. We can open the portal. Ofelia: What is that in your hand? Pan: The portal will only open if we offer the blood of an innocent. Just a drop of blood: a pinprick, that's all....

Pan's Labyrinth

But love, like a mushroom high compared with the buzz from cheap weed, outlasts grief.

A Complicated Kindness

They talked on into the early morning, the high, pale cast of light in the windows, and they did not think of leaving.

Cathedral

Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Always keep in mind its not about how high you can jump, its landing on level ground that matters!

Facets

...winter crescent resting in the high pine bough - you fly through the woods like a lone snow bird...

A Familiar Rain

When teenagers aren’t turning like weathervanes in a high wind, they’re as stiff as Puritans.

Full Dark, No Stars

...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.

Goldfinger