Quotes of: Old-wine Keyword

Next door I could hear the old man’s soul flap its heavy vermillion butterfly wings as the hustler shot a load down his throat.

Pumpkin Teeth

Goddamn it, do it yourself. You’re five hundred years old and you can’t use a telephone? Read the directions. What are you, an immortal idiot?

The Queen of the Damned

There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos.

Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian

Can you imagine how your life would be if you couldn't talk?

The Reason I Jump: The Inner Voice of a Thirteen-Year-Old Boy with Autism

There was something vaguely sad about the rock. It was as old as it looked, standing weathered and lonely amidst the stretch of sand, and its thoughts were quiet as it listened to the waves.

The Rock and the Bird

And what is the problem? It is the old problem of the anxious searcher - the mythic in the interior castle, the poet-pilgrim in a dark wood not sure how to proceed. Which way is the right way?

Reinventing Bach

Even when we’re old, I’ll still look at you with the same eyes. (Who else’s eyes am I going to look at you with?) My love for you is Louis Braillesque.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

How many birthdays can you fit in a shoebox? I guess that depends both on how old you are, and what size shoe you wear.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

My favorite smells are freshly baked bread, the pages of an old book, and they way my boss’ ass smells when he’s shouting at me.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I’ll put some ice in your coffee, to cover up the fact that it was already cold and old. I do this because my love for you is slightly warmer and newer.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.

Tom Brown's Schooldays

I still remember my middle school locker combination. Maybe I should go back to my old locker to see if I left my innocence in there.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I mean, scamming on guys on the Internet? I thought that was only for forty-year-old divorcees who Photoshop their pictures in an effort to appear younger and thinner.

Two-Way Street

The Rusty Ruins were the remains of an old city, a hulking reminder of back when there'd been way too many people, and everyone was incredibly stupid. And ugly.

Uglies

She never imagined that at twenty years old she'd already be a widow in black. On the bright side, she was no longer married to Dario, but her future still looked grim.

Venice in the Moonlight

So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.

A Visit from the Goon Squad

A culture which doesn't believe in region and religion is like a rock music, noise for old generation & nirvana for the young ones.

Write like no one is reading 2

Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries.

Wizard of Ads

Presidents don't make new friends. That's why they've got to keep their old ones." Adm. Fitzwallace

The West Wing Script Book

that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety.

Walden

Anyone who thinks impressions of old movie actors is funny absolutely cannot be trusted. I think it's like a law of nature.

The Waste Lands