Quotes of: Shelley Keyword

The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale.

Erin McKean

Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else.

Nicholas Sparks

The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.

Gilbert Murray

Ricky Roma: How was her crumbcake? Shelley Levene: Hmm? Oh... from the store. Ricky Roma: Fuck her.

Glengarry Glen Ross

I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you.

Clara Schumann

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

A child needs to be listened to and talked to at 3 and 4 and 5 years of age. Parents should not wait for the sophisticated conversation of a teenager.

Bob Keeshan

A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.

Edward Sapir

One shouldn't write one's own epitaph. I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism.

Margrethe II of Denmark

How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.

Mark Burnett

I am convinced that the stratigraphic method will in the future enable archaeology to throw far more light on the history of American culture than it has done in the past.

Edward Sapir

Shelley Levene: You can't think on your feet, you oughta keep your mouth closed.

Glengarry Glen Ross

Mary Shelley: It's a perfect night for mystery and horror. The air itself is filled with monsters.

Bride of Frankenstein

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

Michel de Montaigne

We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

The neglected pioneer of one revolution, the honoured victim of another, brave to the point of folly, and as humane as he was brave, . { }

Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle

What Shelley's world of Prometheus Unbound really has to fear is not resurrection of Jupiter but the resurrection of John Donne.

Modern Poetry and the Tradition

So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in the human population of Switzerland during the periods above considered.

Charles Lyell

Although I believe affection and romance should be shown all year around, it's always smart to have a good plan up your sleeve for Valentine's Day.

Marcus Samuelsson

There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas.

Robert Adamson

When I first started out, 'Time' magazine did an article on what it called 'the sick comics,' and they were myself, Shelley Berman, Nichols & May, Jonathan Winters, Lenny Bruce, and Mort Sahl. We were considered 'sick.'

Bob Newhart