Quotes of: Silver-spoon Keyword

Unlike modern pills, these hard antimony pills didn’t dissolve in the intestines, and the pills were considered so valuable that people rooted through fecal matter to retrieve and reuse them. Some lucky families even passed down laxatives from fath...

The Disappearing Spoon: And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements

Alec licked his spoon, then set it on the table and popped his drink open. "Okay, I may be breaking some kind of girl bonding rule or something, but can I offer you a guy's perspective on this?" I frowned, my spoon halfway to my mouth. "Is this gonna...

My Soul to Steal

Here for example the beautiful silver mirror of a river swells, a boy falls in, the water ripples sweetly around his locks, he sinks - and after a short while the silver mirror swells as before.

Brigitta, with Abdias, Limestone & the Forest Path

I looked at my two wolves. When I knelt they came to me rubbed against me smelling me and I stroked them. "Thank you for believing in me " I said and maybe they understood and maybe they didn't.

Kitty and the Silver Bullet

So age after age — will it be soon, O Lord? — Beneath the scalpel of nature and art, Our spirit screams, our flesh depletes itself, Giving birth to an organ for the sixth sense. ("The Sixth Sense")

The Silver Age of Russian Culture: An Anthology

The mirror's light sparks in the eyes, And horrified, my lids drawn tight, I step back to that realm of night Where not a single exit lies... (Untitled: "I pass away this life of mine...")

The Silver Age of Russian Culture: An Anthology

I daren't come and drink," said Jill. Then you will die of thirst," said the Lion. Oh dear!" said Jill, coming another step nearer."I suppose I must go and look for another stream then." There is no other stream," said the Lion.

The Silver Chair

Hush,” I said. “I’m here, and I’m not letting you out of my sight anytime soon so keep holding me tight.” I looked down, a little more than afraid of plummeting hundreds of feet down.- Breena to Kian, Silver Frost

Silver Frost

When you look at pictures of people you know are dead, there is something different about the eyes. As if they anticipated their particular fate.It is a visceral recognition. I told myself I was getting too fanciful and went to bed.

The Lonely Silver Rain

Let me tell ya. You gotta pay attention to signs. When life reaches out with a moment like this it's a sin if you don't reach back... I'm telling you.

The Silver Linings Playbook

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly.

The Silver Linings Playbook

... Kenny G is extremely talented and resourceful and a powerful force to be reckoned with ... Mr. G might not seem evil, but I fear him more than any other human being.

The Silver Linings Playbook

And I still love you in my own fucked-up way. I miss you, I really do. Can we still be friends?

The Silver Linings Playbook

There was some rhythm, some ecstasy in this dance of flight that expressed the fact that happiness which touches depths and rises beyond physical confines is as old as consciousness, yet ever renewed, and is like the glorying flight of the birds

On the Trail of the Silver Brumby

Both princesses immediately looked wary, exchanging glances. "Warn us of what?" Petunia asked. She studied him with those blue, blue eyes and Oliver wondered all over again what he was doing here.

Princess of the Silver Woods

There are whiskers in my soup, and my spoon smells like my cat’s ass.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

My name is Yogurt Vonnegut, and I write with a spoon.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

Act well your part, there all the honor lies.

Spoon River Anthology

the book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. once invented, it cannot be improved

This Is Not the End of the Book

Pour, varlet, pour the water The water steaming hot! A spoonful for each man of us Another for the pot!

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Nutella. I dig my spoon in and eat it straight out of the jar. I can easily go through one a week.

Malin Akerman