Quotes having the keyword Dreary
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
by George Borrow (Author, British , born in 1803) keywords: attempt, been, dreary, escape, idleness, itself, merely, mischief, parent, said, true, vacuum, very , which It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.
by Roddy Doyle (Novelist, Irish , born in 1958) keywords: because, big, con, dreary, dublin, dump, incredibly, job, little, most, myth, place, sexy, sold, time , well Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.
by Lawrence G. Lovasik (Clergyman) keywords: dreary, get, give, much, needs, nobody, none, smile, smiles, smiling, sometimes, spread, sunshine, used, will , world It was post war. It was very gray, very dreary. Everything was still rationed when I first saw the United States in 1951. I went over to visit my sister who was a war bride.
by John Mahoney (Actor, English , born in 1940) keywords: bride, dreary, everything, first, gray, over, post, rationed, saw, sister, states, still, united, very, visit, war , went A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.
by Walter de La Mare (Poet, English , born in 1873) keywords: able, day, dream, dreary, gloom, happy, hours, infected, light, lost, may, neither, our, recover, shed, sorrowful, trace, upon, waking, whole , yet What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
by W. Somerset Maugham (Playwright, British , born in 1874) keywords: any, become, been, book, brothers, cambridge, did, dreary, every, french, gone, had, influenced, life, literature, more, now, other, perhaps, probably, published, single, stammer, than, then, thing , would What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles.
by Frank Miller (Artist, American , born in 1957) keywords: back, bring, dreary, even, gotten, heroes, muscles, play, project, sense, superheroes, their, things, ugly , want With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.
by Zebulon Pike (Soldier, American , born in 1779) keywords: actively, dreary, employed, famine, forming, minds, more, much, our, part, preservation, resources, route, season, travelled , which The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary.
by Robert Falcon Scott (Explorer, British , born in 1868) keywords: becoming, camp, day, diary, dreary, effort, even, events, forget, longs, march, now, record , them In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and support, oh great, powerful, righteous, and free Russian language!
by Ivan Turgenev (Novelist, Russian , born in 1818) keywords: alone, comfort, country, days, doubt, dreary, fate, free, great, language, musings, oh, powerful, righteous, russian , support
