Silver Quotes - Page 27

• There was no one color that could paint Lena Duchannes. She was a red sweater and a blue sky, a gray wind and a silver sparrow, a black curl escaping from behind her ear.

  Kami Garcia

  Blue, Escaping, Color

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• I'm glad you're still upright, Charles, and the only reason you are is because she didn't have any silver. She'd have staked you right and proper otherwise. She has a tendency to shrivel someone first and then introduce herself afterwards." "That's uncalled for!" I said, insulted at the suggestion that I was homicidal. "Right." Bones let that go. "Kitten, this is my best mate, Charles, but you can call him Spade. Charles, this is Cat, the woman I've been telling you about. You can see for yourself that everything I've said is... an understatement.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Cat, Firsts, Suggestions

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• As far as informing the headmaster, Harry had no idea where Dumbledore went during the summer holidays. He amused himself for a moment, picturing Dumbledore, with his long silver beard, full-length wizard's robes, and pointed hat, stretched out on a beach somewhere, rubbing suntan lotion onto his long crooked nose.

  J. K. Rowling

  Summer, Beach, Holiday

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• Papa was a man with silver eyes, not dead ones. Papa was an accordion! But his bellows were all empty. Nothing went in and nothing came out.

  Markus Zusak

  Father, Eye, Men

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.515, RH Childrens Books

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• I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and silver, and go where it is of little worth, I wish to part in friendship from you, and I would take back my words and deeds at the Gate. . . If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Song, Cheer, Father

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When you are ready to move on or if you come to peace with pain, you’ll find a silver lining.

  Miley Cyrus

  Pain, Moving, Ready To Move On

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• Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Eye, Stealing, Murphy

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• Alas! for that accursed time They bore thee o'er the billow, From love to titled age and crime, And an unholy pillow! From me, and from our misty clime, Where weeps the silver willow!

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Age, Crime, Thee

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories”, p.39, Bottletree Books LLC

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• Stop torturing yourself, her friends said. Stop living in the past. He was gone. Capital G--Gone. He wasn't coming back. She should focus not on the pain, but on the possibility. Something good would come from all this heartache, something always did. Everything, her friends told her, happened for a reason. She should start looking for the silver lining. She thought she might start looking for new friends.

  Aryn Kyle

  Pain, Past, Heartache

  Aryn Kyle (2010). “Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• A curve of silver hung amid the brighter specks; it looked to me like a curved dagger, pretty but deadly, as if it might slice the sky in two.

  Ann Aguirre

  Curves, Sky, Two

  Ann Aguirre (2014). “The Razorland Trilogy”, p.130, Macmillan

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• May its index point to joy, And moments wing'd with new delights. Sweet may resound each silver bell, And never quick returning chime, Seem in reproving notes to tell, Of hours mispent, and murder'd time.

  Charlotte Turner Smith

  Sweet, Time, Silver Bells

  Charlotte Turner Smith (2014). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Charlotte Smith (Illustrated)”, p.299, Delphi Classics

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• Does the moon play only silver when it strums the galaxy?

  Joni Mitchell

  Moon, Play, Poetry

  Song: Songs To Aging Children Come, Album: Clouds

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• This morning came on to me, silver wings silhouetted against the child's sunrise.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Morning, Children, Wings

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• He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.

  Boris Johnson

  Business, House, Debt

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• I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and son have both said that grey hair doesn't suit me because I have a boyish face.

  David Cassidy

  Son, Hair, White

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• Hawkwind are one of those bands that people introduce you to because you don't see them on the covers of magazines. I'd heard 'Silver Machine' but Russell Senior, who was in Pulp, got me into them. They had a song called 'Master Of The Universe' and we nicked the title in 1985 for one of our songs.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Senior, Song, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Quality, Steel, Gone

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Gonna wind it up on my guitar. Gonna make that silver sing.

  Tom Petty

  Guitar, Wind, Rock And Roll

  Song: Dreamville, Album: The Last DJ

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• Ten silver saxes,
  a bass with a bow
  The drummer relaxes
  and waits between shows
  For his cinnamon girl.

  Neil Young

  Girl, Rock And Roll, Relax

  Neil Young (2010). “Neil Young - Greatest Hits (Songbook): Easy Guitar with Notes and Tab”, p.16, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Bitcoin is not an actual physical coin, and if computers are shut down, you can't buy or sell them. That's why nothing will ever replace gold and silver coins themselves, and all investors should have them at home or in a safe deposit box.

  Mark Skousen

  Home, Should Have, Gold

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• Discoveries from one community cannot be repackaged and provided to another as a silver bullet, That's a "best practice" rollout and it invariably evokes the immune rejection response.

  Richard Pascale

  Learning, Knowledge, Discovery

  Richard T. Pascale, Jerry Sternin, Monique Sternin (2010). “The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems”, p.112, Harvard Business Press

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• I had a fan make me a silver wolf-tooth necklace. That was really great.

  Joe Manganiello

  Teeth, Fans, Necklaces

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• Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Civilization, Savagery

  H. Rider Haggard (2015). “Allan Quatermain: Mystery & Adventure Story”, p.3, 谷月社

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• The silver Swan, who, living, had no Note, when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat. Leaning her breast upon the reedy shore, thus sang her first and last, and sang no more: 'Farewell, all joys! O Death, come close mine eyes! More Geese than Swans now live, more Fools than Wise.'

  Orlando Gibbons

  Wise, Farewell, Eye

  1612 The First Set of Madrigals and Motets of Five Parts,'The Silver Swan'.

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• As a revolutionary people, we Americans won a probable victory over the best and biggest army in the world because we learned to fight from the Indians. You can do a lot of damage with a Kentucky rifle from behind a tree. You don't put on a peaked hat and a red coat and white leggings and crossed white bandoleers with a big silver buckle in the center of the X and march uphill into a line of Howitzers loaded with chain and chopped horseshoes.

  James Lee

  Army, Fighting, Kentucky

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