Suspended Quotes
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“ All life is a rhythm,” she said as I sat up. “All death is rhythm suspended, a syncopation before life resumes.”
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More Suspended Quotes
"Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service."
smedley butler— War is a racket. (1935)[1]
It is always observable that silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find any thing to say.
samuel johnson— The Adventurer, # 84 (August 25, 1753).
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
Henry James— Henry James, The Art of Fiction (1884).
"Life is a minestrone Served up with parmesan cheese Death is a cold lasagne suspended in deep freeze"
— Lol Creme / Eric Stewart, from the 10cc song Life Is A Minestrone
Dust in the air suspended Marks the place where a story ended.
— 1942 Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.2.
It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries (aged 17).
Edward Gibbon— Memoirs of My Life (published1796), ch.4.
Their shoulders held the sky suspended; They stood, and earth's foundations stay; What God abandoned, these defended, And saved the sum of things for pay.
— 1922 Last Poems, no.37,'Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries'.
Experience isnever limited, and it isnever complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching everyair-borne particle in its tissue.
Henry James— 1884 'The Art of Fiction', collected in Partial Portraits (1888).
Illinois is a state of suspended animation and the people live in hibernation from Oct. to whenever it ever gets warmer.
John Henry O'Hara— 1940 Pal Joey, ch.9.
The captain is in his bunk, drinking bottled ditch-water; and the crew isgambling in the forecastle. She will strike and sink and split. Do you think the laws of God will be suspended in favour of England because you were born in it?
George Bernard Shaw— 1919 Captain Shotover. Heartbreak House, act 3.
The distinction between indoors and outdoors, which in England is usually so marked, was temporarily suspended in a hot gauzy haze.
Quentin Crisp— Ch. 13 (The Naked Civil Servant (1968))
Five or six hundred [aristocratic] heads lopped off would have assured you repose and happiness; a false humanity has restrained your arm and suspended your blows; it will cost the lives of millions of your brothers.
jean-paul marat— L'Ami du peuple, vol. 2, p. 1121
Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe. The painter's art is more confined, and has nothing that corresponds with, or perhaps is equivalent to, this power and advantage of leading the mind on, till attention is totally engaged. What is done by Painting, must be done at one blow; curiosity has received at once all the satisfaction it can ever have.
joshua reynolds— Discourse no. 8, delivered on December 10, 1778; vol. 1, p. 247.
On the earDrops the light drip of the suspended oar.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (1816), Stanza 86.
Whether it’s that moment in acting when everything is suspended and you’re not yourself, or breaking through the veil of a very long run or swim, or hearing my daughter laugh they are all pathways to what I think God must be.
jennifer beals— Interview in More Magazine, p. 165 (December 2010)
A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain; you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links.
ambrose bierce— p. 363 (Epigrams)
Before the Barn-Door crowing, The Cock by Hens attended, His Eyes around him throwing, Stands for a while suspended: Then One he singles from the Crew, And cheers the happy Hen; With how do you do, and how do you do, And how do you do again.
john gay— Act II, sc. iv, air 23.
I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.
john major— Nicholas Wood and Michael Prescott, "Major threatens general election if he fails to win Maastricht vote", Sunday Times, 25 October 1992.
The bell jar hung, suspended, a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air.
Sylvia Plath— Ch. 18 (The Bell Jar (1963))
In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
Arthur Schopenhauer— "The Art of Controversy" as translated by T. Bailey Saunders
Extensive whiteness drowned All sense of space. We tramped through Static, glaring days, Time's suspended blank.
stephen spender— "Polar Exploration"
On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (1816), Stanza 86.
The spectacle of a clergyman imprisoned for persistence in illegal ritualistic practices may shock the public conscience, and raise sympathy for a man who really deserves none, while the spectacle of a man suspended after due warning from an office, the laws attaching to which he disregards, or from a benefice obtained under conditions which he will not fulfil, is one which must commend itself to every reasonable man.
— Lord Thesiger, L.J., Martin v. Mackonochie (1879), L. R. 4 Q. B. 724.
Alcmaeon was, says [J.] Wachtler, the first who attempted to explain the phenomenon of sound and our perception of it by reference to the structure of the ear itself. Empedocles to some extent follows or agrees with him. ...Empedocles teaches that hearing is caused by the impact of the air-wave against the cartilage which is suspended within the ear, oscillating as it is struck, like a gong.
— John Isaac Beare, Greek Theories of Elementary Cognition from Alcmaeon to Aristotle (1906)
Midwinter Spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, suspended in time, between pole and tropic.
— 1942 Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.1.
