Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richelle Mead

You kill me, Rose," he said melodramatically. "Every day is agony without you. Empty. Alone. I pine for you, wondering if you're even still alive.

Robert E. Howard

Every twinge of sensation, even of agony, was a negation of death.

William Goldman

You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony.

Scott Turow

You know, my mom, who inspired me to be a novelist, I remember her reading 'The Agony and the Ecstasy,' about Michelangelo, and saying, 'No mother would want that for her child, no matter how great the artist.' I have my share of demons, but I am a gregarious sort.

Ellen G. White

The Saviour would have passed through the agony of Calvary that one might be saved in His kingdom. He will never abandon one for whom He has died.

Frank Keating

The agony that we went through needed to be redeemed, and needed to be recompensed, and that did occur and we're very happy that this part is over.

Louis Agassiz

A laboratory of natural history is a sanctuary where nothing profane should be tolerated. I feel less agony at improprieties in churches than in a scientific laboratory.

Louise Bogan

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

Julie Burchill

A cynic should never marry an idealist. For the cynic, marriage represents the welcome end of romantic life, with all its agony and ecstasy. But for the idealist, it is only the beginning.

Budd Schulberg

I ran the newspaper, at Dartmouth, and there was a marble quarry strike about 40 miles away,

William Wordsworth

Where the statue stood/ Of Newton with his prism and silent face,/ The marble index of a mind for ever/ Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.

William Butler Yeats

See how the sacred old flamingoes come,Painting with shadow all the marble steps:Aged and wise, they seek their wonted perchesWithin the temple, devious walking, madeTo wander by their melancholy minds.

Melina Mercouri

There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles.