A Quote by Edward Gorey

I tend to be rather inconsequential and trail off.

Edward Gorey

Quote Topics

Inconsequential Off Rather Tend Trail

Quote Author

Edward Gorey
American - Author
February 22, 1925 - April 15, 2000

To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point.

Mason Cooley

Having been to Europe and working and traveling there, the restaurants my wife and I remember were always off the beaten trail restaurants. So I tried to seek a little 'off the beaten trail,' but cool area.

Todd English

Christlike communications are expressed in tones of love rather than loudness. They are intended to be helpful rather than hurtful. They tend to bind us together rather than to drive us apart. They tend to build rather than to belittle.

L. Lionel Kendrick

Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects.

David Markson

Every project has its own logic and parameters. In some objects, functionality is primary, and in others, it is rather inconsequential.

Marcel Wanders

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Robert Motherwell

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

If somebody takes the parking place you were waiting for, I tend to kind of let it roll off my back. Maybe I'm harboring a lot of something and it will all explode somewhere down the road, but I tend to just let it slide off my back.

Steve Carell

I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.

Brian May

I tend to put my foot in my mouth. I'm not good at being diplomatic. I tend to piss people off.

Pink

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

Louis L'Amour

And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost.

Kenneth Koch

Stuff that's truly off-trail was what appealed to 'Weird Tales' editors.

Robert Weinberg

By the very nature of being a clergyman's son, people tend to put you slightly apart, which is - you tend to live a life, at some stages, as being - people being suspicious of you and puts you rather on a - I don't mean lonely, particularly. But it does tend to put you apart.

John Hurt

One thing about tourists is that it is very easy to get away from them. Like ants they follow a trail and a few yards each side of that trail there are none.

Nancy Mitford

A Quote by Edward Gorey

Quote Topics

Quote Author

Related Quotes

Related Authors