Passages Quotes

• House passage is good news for the Northwest corner and our environment.

  Nancy Johnson

  House, News, Environment

  7 Copy quote

• Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

  Cameron Diaz

  Over You, Actors, Scripts

  7 Copy quote

• I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.

  Maya Lin

  War, Artist, Memorial

  Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

  Thomas Mann

  Wisdom, New Year, Time

  'The Magic Mountain' (1924) ch. 4, sect. 4 (translation by H. T. Lowe-Porter)

  63 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Book, Reading, Eye

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.446, Diversion Books

  41 Copy quote

  Show source

• Yeah, you know, you like it to come on like gangbusters, but you get into passages that are very interesting and subtle, and sometimes your original intent changes quite a bit.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Change, Interesting, Sometimes

  "New Again: Roy Lichtenstein". Interview with David Bowie, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 20, 2012.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia

  Tracy Kidder

  Writing, Copying, Done

  56 Copy quote

• I always say that as a Christian I cannot find any passage in the Gospels in which Jesus condemned homosexuality.

  Troy Perry

  Christian, Jesus, Homosexuality

  7 Copy quote

• The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers... but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Taken, Writing, Roots

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1885). “Margaret Fuller Ossoli”, p.289, Ardent Media

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The passage of time is a continuing thing. At 18, youre going to live forever, and you are definitely not at 52, so that is a recurring topic. I still think its the main stuff.

  Peter Hammill

  Thinking, Forever, Topics

  8 Copy quote

• The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

  James Taylor

  Time, Secret, Musician

  Song: Secret O' Life, Album: JT, 1977

  37 Copy quote

  Show source

• Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

  Marguerite Young

  Philosophy, Poetic, Realism

  52 Copy quote

• Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Nature, Play, Levels

  7 Copy quote

• The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Bible, Christian, Spiritual

  170 Copy quote

• I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

  Anthony Trollope

  Ambition, Literature, Castles

  Anthony Trollope (2009). “The Bertrams: Easyread Large Edition”, p.282, ReadHowYouWant.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

  Rowan Williams

  Anger, Culture, Growing

  Rowan Williams (2013). “Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral”, p.136, Bloomsbury Publishing

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us.

  Rowan Williams

  Healthy, Trying, Limits

  Rowan Williams (2013). “Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral”, p.137, A&C Black

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.

  Otto Dix

  Dream, Men, Years

  7 Copy quote

• In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and of adders.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Men, Rose

  Adolf Hitler (1941). “My new order”

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.

  Maurice Jarre

  India, Favourite

  7 Copy quote

• We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

  William Howard Taft

  Law, Presidential, Important

  William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2009). “William Howard Taft: Essential Writings and Addresses”, p.125, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  New Year, New Beginnings, Men

  Hamilton Wright Mabie (1893). “My Study Fire”

  76 Copy quote

  Show source

• You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

  Al Stewart

  Sadness, Hands, All Alone

  7 Copy quote

• One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

  Walter Pater

  Beautiful, Art, Book

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry”, p.155, Courier Corporation

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean sealed doorway before us.

  Howard Carter

  Doorways, Lasts, Rubbish

  16 Copy quote