Quotes of: Were Keyword

Women were like rivers, their banks were unreachable, the night often rang with the cries of the drowned.

Frost

The Greeks were realists. They saw the beauty of common things and were content with it.

The Greek Way

Her burdens were her own and burdens were for shoulders strong enough to bear them.

Gone with the Wind

They were silent, humiliated by this return of the defeated, furious at their own silence, but the more it was prolonged the less capable they were of breaking it.

The Adulterous Woman

You were kidnapped not?" "I was kidnapped." "You were forced not into marriage?" "I was forced into marriage." "You want not an annulment?" "I want not an annulment.

A Bride Most Begrudging

Drazen’s lips were more than lips; they were the physical memory of myself before I shut out sex to pursue music.

Beg

They were inlove, but they hadn't been lovers; they were friends and yet also strangers for so many years

The Best of Me

There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.

The Book Thief

They stared ahead. Silent. Morin had never realized murderers were caught in silence. But they were.

The Brutal Telling

He and his brothers were heroes at heart - even if they were all bad boy on the outside

Burning Up

Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.

Dolly Parton

I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices - they were about my age, but they were doing it.

Eddie Vedder

I'm not focused on radio or whether I'm going to get all the audiences... all I wanted were great songs that were universal to any listener - Black, White, Green, Yellow; any kind a age difference.

Ledisi

Look at the Afghans, during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world, yet they were sustained by their faith in God, and God alone.

Abu Bakar Bashir

I knew early on that I was a nerd and that films were my refuge. Those first few minutes before the lights went off, and you're alone in the theater waiting, were really pleasurable.

Alfonso Cuaron

No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.

Edie Brickell

Another thing to do with the blues is how they were recorded. They were done on the quick, and some of that stuff was made on wire, not even tape, let alone digital.

Keith Richards

Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn.

Norman Rockwell

You were falling for me, and I was falling for you, and we were falling together into the land of the fallen.

21 Stolen Kisses

…girls were like poems: weird, incomprehensible and boring, but those “in the know” assured me that they were beautiful.

The Accidental Siren

...that once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to anyone.

Alphabet of Thorn