355 Quotes About Things

Sometimes you need things rather than just thoughts.

Everything comes to an end, only objects are left to pine in the dark.

The garnets,' Sniff moaned. 'I didn't get a single one.'Snufkin sat down beside him and said kindly: 'I know. But that's how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now I just look at them, and when I go away I carry them in my head. Then my hands are always free, because I don't have to carry a suitcase.

Things have their time, even eminence bows to timeliness.

I felt very much like a hooker who had just been told she was a lady of the evening.

She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren.

It does strange things to you to realize that the conservative establishment is forcing you to be a progressive liberal fighter for universal rights.

The accouterments of life were so rich and varied, so elaborated, that almost no place at all was left for life itself. Each and every accessory was so costly and beautiful that it had an existence above and beyond the purpose it was meant to serve – confusing the observer and absorbing attention.

Many things have been written and will be written for dream. Dreams are nothing but our unclear expectations.