John Buchan Quotes

The clean delicate lines of her figure, the exquisite pure colouring of hair and skin, the charming young arrogance of the eyes - this was beauty, he reflected, a miracle, a revelation. Her virginal fineness and her dress, which was the tint of pale fire, gave her the air of a creature of ice and flame.

John Buchan

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• Hair
• Air
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• Twitter, Facebook are so different from where I began. It's like a fire that takes off... I'm reading everybody's Twitter.

  

  Randee Heller
  • Different
  • Reading
  • Fire

• My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Light
  • Singing
  • Hair

• Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Air
  • Japanese
  • Group

• On the last morning of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War, I built a fire and sat facing a window of darkness where at sunrise I knew I would find the sea.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • War
  • Morning
  • Fire

• Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others... that's gross.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Men
  • Hair
  • Beer

• I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Hand

• Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Men
  • Down
  • Dinner

• It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • True
  • Man
  • Miracle

• Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Hair
  • Writer
  • Just

• In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Eyes
  • Justice
  • Equal

• Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Good
  • Live

• I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Value
  • Hair
  • Unique

• I think there's a perception out there that people know me based on these glamorous photos they see of me in magazines, but I have about two hours of hair and makeup and then people to dress me, to make me look even better, in those pictures.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • People
  • Hair
  • Makeup

• There are two smells that I can recognize right away. The smell of the boxing ring and the smell of a garage. That's where I grew up. I can recognize these places with my eyes closed.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Up
  • Eyes
  • Boxing

• Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • Long
  • Book

• A hair divides what is false and true.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • True
  • Hair
  • False

• 'Lost' seems to be the inverse of 'Air': It explores dispossession and identity by forcing a bunch of people into one invented landscape instead of using many invented landscapes to keep people apart.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Lost
  • Air

• I always had a short bob with bangs, and I hated it. My mum would always say, 'A short hair cut is always the way to go for you.' I had it for fourteen years!

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Hair
  • Years
  • Short

• What I try to get beyond is playing music at people and, instead, to play music with people because audience members are constantly part of the experience. What they say in their body language, what they say in their eyes, what they sing with me... it's an 'us,' and there's a communication that's like... it's like church, man.

  

  Al Jarreau
  • People
  • Music
  • Experience

• Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

  

  Dorothea Brande
  • Mind
  • Fire

• Posing the question: does the god of love use underarm deodorant, vaginal spray and fluoride toothpaste?

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • God
  • Question

• I remember I was up for the role of Jim in 'Huck Finn,' and because I went to Harvard and Yale, they didn't think I would be able to play a slave. I said, 'Oh, please.' I had to go in there and prove to them that I wasn't too intelligent to play a slave.

  

  Courtney B. Vance
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Intelligent

• I am your original autodidact.

  

  Doris Lessing

• The clean delicate lines of her figure, the exquisite pure colouring of hair and skin, the charming young arrogance of the eyes - this was beauty, he reflected, a miracle, a revelation. Her virginal fineness and her dress, which was the tint of pale fire, gave her the air of a creature of ice and flame.

  

  John Buchan
  • Eyes
  • Hair
  • Air