290 Quotes About Imagery

He adored competing but didn't want you to know he'd ever worked at it.

He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.

Chronicling the mid-1970s up session with Gerald Ford's clumsiness, the author quotes a medieval maxim that the king has two bodies. The head of state has a physical body like everyone else, but he also represents the body politic, either reflecting its majesty or its weakness.

Stars poked through like holes in the cloth of the sky and shed no light on anything.

So much blood's rushing and gushing to my head it might blow straight off my neck.

The wheel of life: one generation rises like summer wheat, then withers and falls to seed. The wheel turns - birth, youth, adulthood, parenthood, senescence, death - driven by genetic machinery set in motion so many eons ago. For all its subtleties and infinite beauty, life has but one purpose: to keep the wheel turning.

They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life.

Now, sucking all the night into his open mouth and blowing it out pale, with all the blackness left heavily inside himself...

She would stay there, flying across the sea like a mermaid with wings, until the end.