A Quote by Deborah Harkness

We live in a world where we think the mysterious is retreating farther and farther from our lives and eventually we will know all there is to know. I love the idea that somehow, there are still things that can be magical.

Deborah Harkness

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Deborah Harkness
American - Novelist
Born: 1965

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John Dorsey

Anywhere, provided it be forward-- farther still farther into the night.

David Livingstone

We find them smaller and fainter, in constantly increasing numbers, and we know that we are reaching into space, farther and farther, until, with the faintest nebulae that can be detected with the greatest telescopes, we arrive at the frontier of the known universe.

Edwin Powell Hubble

You see God's hands in so many situations. Then someone will point to all the bad things that are going on. Well, it's because we don't want God in our society. We are pushing God farther and farther away. And we can now see those consequences in our society.

Jeremy Camp

So I've been pushed farther and farther out into the mountains, but at the same time realizing that that experience is really nice and I'm glad I'm getting pushed out there farther.

Craig Kelly

I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them.

Anna Quindlen

All the wonders you seek are within yourself. We should seek to discover our own special light. Know how to live within yourself; there in your soul lives a whole world of mysterious and enchanted thoughts; they will be drowned by noise of this world. Be still and listen to their singing and be silent.

Fyodor Tyutchev

The great quality of true art is that it rediscovers, grasps and reveals to us that reality far from where we live, from which we get farther and farther away as the conventional knowledge we substitute for it becomes thicker and more impermeable.

Marcel Proust

As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches. I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to tell and then the dialogue just came to me as I was inking the page.

Jhonen Vasquez

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

Wayne Thiebaud

The guys that have that drive, that work ethic, make it farther and farther.

Dan Gronkowski

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Winston Churchill

We cannot be sure if we are loving God, although we may have good reasons for believing that we are, but we can know quite well if we are loving our neighbor. And be certain that, the farther advanced you find you are in this, the greater the love you will have for God.

Teresa of Avila

The safety requirements, which are necessary, spread everything out and push people farther and farther away from the stage and from each other.

Frank Gehry

Dallas is more in line with mainstream America. But Houston's farther down on the map where it's a little different. I think it's the slowness of our culture, how we move slow. It's hot in here, you know. We got our own culture, our own slang, a little bit our own way of doing things.