Quotes of: Linger Keyword

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

Virginia Satir

While it can be pleasurable to move speedily through a work of fiction, there's a different sort of pleasure to be had in lingering, backtracking, rereading the same page.

Joanna Scott

More people seem to know the Van der Graaf Generator material than my solo work - thanks, I suppose, to their parents' lingering vinyl collections.

Peter Hammill

the goal is to keep yourself moving, remember? don't linger. don't hover. you are not going to stay.

After the Kiss

Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments.

Rampant

I like pain. I like when it lingers. It reminds a person of what they've lived through.

Mud Vein

When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

George Etherege

Kind words not only lift our spirits in the moment they are given, but they can linger with us over the years.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Do not trap yourself into an owl's hooting sound where sad nights linger through the blackness of a hound

Munia Khan

Bittersweet? No, just bitter, the taste of your tongue. Words you can’t have back, so they linger.

Coco J. Ginger

Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.

Dennis E. Adonis

Legolas: We must move on. We cannot linger.

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

My favorite books are the ones that make me smile for hours after reading them. I want that for my readers, for the sweetness to linger. Sort of like chocolate, but without the calories.

Sarah Addison Allen

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.

George Whitefield

The simple gift of giving becomes an elaborate rich aftertaste of a natural blissful feeling, lingering endlessly in my lifetime.

Wes Adamson

I went outside. Tried taking in the billions of stars above, lingering long enough to allow each point of light the chance to scratch a deep hole in the back of my retina, so that when I finally did turn to face the dark surrounding forest I thought ...

House of Leaves

The smell of dead fish lingered in the air, and excited flies darted from fish to fish lapping up the decay.

The Cursed Nile

His eyes lingered on me, and I wondered if that was a message. Was he danger? Was I supposed to run? I wasn’t afraid.

Dangerous Boys

It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.

All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen. by Samuel Beckett

..and why the winter suns so rush to bathe themselves in the sea and what slows down the nights to a long lingering crawl...

The Aeneid

My eyes refuse to let him leave, but he stands still holding my hand, lingering for as long as possible.

The Harem