Quotes of: While Keyword

Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit.

The Heroes

Being here with him is safety; it's a cave, where we huddle together while the storm goes on outside. This is a delusion, of course. This room is one of the most dangerous places I could be.

The Handmaid's Tale

This mundus tenebrosus, this shaddowy world of Mankind, is sunk into Night; there is not a Field without its Spirits, nor a City without its Daemons, and the Lunaticks speak Prophesies while the Wise men fall into the Pitte.

Hawksmoor

Open your eyes, train your ears, use your head. If a mind you have, then use it while you can.

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

...while the stony bones of the world tore past and the air grew dark and howling. The last thing he saw as the gulley became a torrent of dust and rock was the Jeep, plucked backwards into space.

Infected Connection

I made dinner reservations for two, because I like eating alone. And I drink coffee by the bathtubful—but only while simultaneously taking a shower.

I love Blue Ribbon Coffee

Make time to make love. Then, after you’ve finished making love, make some coffee while I just lie in bed and quiver.

I love Blue Ribbon Coffee

I tried to wear my shirt while it was still on the hanger. That’s just the kind of morning person I am with no coffee.

I love Blue Ribbon Coffee

History isn't written by the winners - it's written by everyone - it's a jigsaw of facts from contradictory sources. But every once in a while, you unearth that one original document that no one can argue with...

The Inner Circle

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Studying wine taught me that there was a very big difference between soil and dirt: dirt is to soul what zombies are to humans. Soil is full of life, while dirt is devoid of it.

Into Wine: An Invitation to Pleasure

Indeed, infatuation thrives on image (while love thrives on knowledge).

I Only Want to Get Married Once: Dating Secrets for Getting It Right the First Time

I want to see an elephant hunt down a man for the sole purpose of collecting his teeth, while a chorus of typewriters sings songs that praises the bananas for their wisdom, leadership, and their high levels of potassium.

I Want

I had a dream about you last night.. You were balancing ten tiny footballs on your nose while dancing with a turquoise unicorn.

I Had a Dream About You

If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

Jane Eyre

I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.

Jane Eyre

...and I laugh and I spin and dance and frolic in ecstasy and I... I hurt no more, while you...you petrified little man, are left to wonder if it's you I speak of.

Jagged Little Pieces

In preaching conservative doctrine, Goldwater's jeremiads seemed to be preaching the end of the old world, while Reagan's pep talks seemed to trumpet the beginning of a new one.

Kennedy and Reagan: Why Their Legacies Endure

If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed.

Killosophy

A god who gave us everything we wanted would be the most malevolent god of all. With an infantile curiosity, we insist on tasting the cockroach on the floor while our father is preparing a magnificent feast for us.

Killosophy

The gum looked fresh. I sniffed it and it smelled all right. I licked it and waited for a while. When I did not die, I crammed it into my mouth: Wrigley's Double Mint.

To Kill a Mockingbird