Worn Quotes - Page 9

• I like my guitars to be kinda worn. I don't like it when they're all shiny.

  Vivian Campbell

  Guitar

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• After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful.

  Karen Armstrong

  Religious, Book, Reading

  "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org.

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• I have never worn a watch. I did at 17 and it annoyed me.

  Eve Best

  Annoyed, Watches

  "Eve Best: 'Webster is like learning to eat with a chainsaw'". Interview With Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

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• I was tired of my lady, we'd been together too long, like a worn-out recording of a favorite song.

  Rupert Holmes

  Relationship, Song, Tired

  Song: Escape, Album: Partners in Crime

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• Painted faces, sun burnt skin, fixed expressions, smiles worn thin.

  Chaka Khan

  Art, Media, Expression

  Song: Hollywood

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• Own one idea. Complete it. Map the current model of purchase and usage. Change how it is done so at least some part of the market uses only your product. Extend from that core user to a much broader universe. Describe your concept in a very short, "six-word story" - a la Ernest Hemingway: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn."

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Baby, Shoes, Ideas

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble.

  Adolf Hitler

  Dogma, Christianity, Science And Religion

  Adolf Hitler (1953). “Table talk, 1941-1944”

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• I don't like your miserable lonely single front name. It is so limited, so meager; it has no versatility; it is weighted down with the sense of responsibility; it is worn threadbare with much use; it is as bad as having only one jacket and one hat; it is like having only one relation, one blood relation, in the world. Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Lonely, Children, Responsibility

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• For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for a moment in the height of prosperity; then at life's end with limbs worn out by old age and wrinkles adorning his face, like an actor he retires behind the curtain of death.

  Bhartrhari

  Boys, Men, Wrinkles

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• Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sea, Needs, Green

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.217

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• Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Hurt, Truth, Blood

  Walter Savage Landor (1856). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”, p.238

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• Say, care-worn man, Whom Duty chains within the city walls, Amid the toiling crowd, how grateful plays The fresh wind o’er thy sickly brow, when free To tread the springy turf,— to hear the trees Communing with the gales,—to catch the voice Of waters, gushing from their rocky womb, And singing as they wander... Spring-hours will come again, and feelings rise With dewy freshness o’er thy wither’d heart.

  Robert Montgomery

  Nature, Wall, Spring

  Robert Montgomery (1828). “A Universal Prayer, Death, A Vision of Heaven and A Vision of Hell”, p.130

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• Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.

  Ines de La Fressange

  Simple, Sweaters, Clothes

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• Horror is the badge of humanity, worn proudly, self-righteously, and often falsely.

  Poppy Z. Brite

  Self, Humanity, Horror

  Poppy Z. Brite (1997). “Exquisite Corpse”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

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• The sap of Spring in the young wood a-stir Will celebrate with green the Mother, And every song-bird shout awhile for her; But we are gifted, even in November Rawest of seasons, with so huge a sense Of Her nakedly worn magnificence We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.

  Robert Graves

  Mother, Song, Betrayal

  Robert Graves (1955). “Collected poems, 1955”

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• It's so tiring. Even though I've worn heels and performed the choreography for four years now, I'm still not used to it. When will I be used to it? In 10 years? In 20 years?

  Kim Hyo-yeon

  Years, Snsd, Four

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• A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Teeth, Aphorism, Century

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.296, Courier Corporation

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• O Earth, O Earth, return! Arise from out the dewy grass; Night is worn; And the morn Rises from the slumbrous mass.

  William Blake

  Morning, Night, Earth

  William Blake (2005). “Collected Poems”, p.65, Routledge

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• I came to Jesus as I was, weary and worn and sad; I found in Him a resting place, and he has made me glad.

  Horatius Bonar

  Jesus, Made, Found

  Horatius Bonar (1867). “Hymns of Faith and Hope. New edition. [Selected from Series 1-3.]”, p.66

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• When the first-rate author wants an exquisite heroine or a lovely morning, he finds that all the superlatives have been worn shoddy by his inferiors. It should be a rule that bad writers must start with plain heroines and ordinary mornings, and, if they are able, work up to something better.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Morning, Lovely, Ordinary

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• So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin. The same high-seasoned descriptions which in his unregenerate state served to inflame his appetites, in his new province of a moralist will serve him (a little turned) to expose the enormity of those appetites in other men.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Littles, Sometimes

  Charles Lamb (1855). “Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials”, p.368

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• A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stupid, Teeth, Doe

  Friedrich Nietzsche; (2016). “Human, All Too Human”, p.51, Xist Publishing

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• American closets are filled with once-worn clothes that got a bad review from a friend on their first appearance.

  Andy Rooney

  Clothes, Firsts, Appearance

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• The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living.

  Edward Forbes

  Depth, Looks, Shells

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• Sunset Boulevard' - the story of Hollywood movies draped on a depressing sex affair - is an uncompromising study of American decadence displaying a sad, worn, methodical beauty few films have had since the late twenties.

  Manny Farber

  Depressing, Sex, Sunset

  Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.644, Library of America

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