Explore Quotations, Proverbs & Sayings
Welcome to the biggest collection of quotations, proverbs and sayings! If you are looking for a specific quotation, proverb or saying, check our universal database. We have collected over 150,000 inspirational quotations, funny quotations, movie quotations, famous proverbs and cute sayings that we would like to share with you. Find quotations, proverbs and sayings for any occasion and view them all for free.
Browse quotations by author, topic or keyword.
Browse Keywords:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
Letter "A" » apparitions
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
«In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.»
Author: Michelangelo
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
apparition, apparitions, block, hew, hewing, imprison, lovely, reveal, rough, shaped, stood, walls
«The difficulty of accurate recognition constitutes one of the most serious sources of friction in war... War has a way of masking the stage with scenery crudely daubed with fearsome apparitions.»
«When people talk of Ghosts I don't mention the Apparition by which I am haunted, the Phantom that shadows me about the streets, the image or spectre, so familiar, so like myself, which lurks in the plate glass of shop-windows, or leaps out of mirrors»
Author: Logan Pearsall Smith
(Writer)
| Keywords:
apparition, apparitions, glass window, leaps, mirror image, phantom, plate glass, spectre, The Phantom, the Spectre
«Let us interrogate the great apparition, that shines so peacefully around us»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
apparition, apparitions, interrogate
«The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
all-embracing, apparitions, embracing, exhalation, exhalations, illimitable, resting, rolling, roll call, rushing, swift, swim, tide
Get access to over 800,000 college papers on the most popular topics for only $14.95/month.
Buy essay, term paper or research paper on the specific topic at a cheap price and get a discount!
Buy essay, term paper or research paper on the specific topic at a cheap price and get a discount!
