Top 1200 Paradise Lost Book 2 Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, and paradise is when you have none.

Sweden is not a green paradise, it has one of the biggest carbon footprints.

You were never told that Saint-Tropez is paradise?

The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.

The Cross is the way to Paradise, but only when it is borne willingly.

If I could, I'd live in the nude, like Eve in paradise.

We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go.

I count him lost, who is lost to shame. [Lat., Nam ego illum periisse duco, cui quidem periit pudor.]

One of the things I keep reminding players is that when you're lost in a fog, you must stick together. Then you don't get lost. If there's a secret about Liverpool, that's it.

Working on 'The Paradise' is like putting on a comfy overcoat.

The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.

I do kabbalistic meditation. It's not unlike time travel; it can change the past and not just the future. You can look at what was lost and go beyond the grief of what was lost.

I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my cheek on the pillow and sigh for a long time. It seemed there would never be another book. It was all over, the book was dead. It lay in its bent cover by my hand. What was the use? Why bother dragging the weight of my small body down to dinner? Why move? Why breathe? The book had left me, and there was no reason to go on.

We meditate to find, to recover, to come back to something of ourselves we once dimly and unknowingly had and have lost without knowing what it was or where or when we lost it.

He that will enter into Paradise, must have a good key.

When I was in senior year of high school, my mom lost her job, we lost our house, and we had to move in with my uncle and my aunt.

Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards... Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever.

Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book, but it's not something that somebody who has never read a book before should be given as an example of why you'll really love to read, necessarily.

Stylistically speaking, 'Paradise' is a Jekyll & Hyde song.

The wine they drink in Paradise They make in Haute Lorraine.

For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people read. It is the only book they read every day.

If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell.

To escape and sit quietly on the beach - that's my idea of paradise.

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

Here is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand.

If not for the cost burdens of fear we would all be living in paradise

And all I do is look into your eyes For that special touch of paradise

The music for me is paradise. I think it's where God lives.

I always try to treat the book itself as the artwork. I don't want you to stop while you're reading one of my books and say, 'Oh! What a gorgeous illustration!' I want you to stop at the end of the book and say, 'This is a good book.

The spreading wide my narrow Hands / To gather Paradise-.

You walk into BookCon, and everybody is so excited... it's just paradise.

America is a huge country, filled with great tracts of open land. If you're not careful, you can get lost in it - lost emotionally, mentally, spiritually.

Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am.

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

There were times when I thought I had to be completely off-book and ready to give my opening night performance at the audition, but then I swung back to a more relaxed view of it. Certainly you've looked at the material and prepared it, but there's no reason to be off-book. You're not getting points for being off-book.

If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.

Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.

Titles are very hard. Sometimes a title comes before I start to write the book, but often I finish the book and I still don't have a title. I have to go through the book again and then sometimes I hope a title jumps out at me from what I've written.

Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

If you want to write about a person who isn't nice, people say, "This is a bad book. It's about somebody I couldn't stand." But that's not the point. You don't have to like a character to like a book. Most of the time, people would misjudge and say, "I didn't like the book." No, you didn't like the character. That doesn't make it any less interesting of a book. In fact, to me, it makes it more interesting.

By the time I get through writing a score, I know the book better than the book writer does, because I've examined every word, and questioned the book writer on every word.

Okay. how about that time when you smoked all that weed that you thought was laced with something? You fell into the tub, but you refused to get out because you were convinced that the back of your head was going to fall off? "That third story happened to a guy named Jace in my dorm. Me and Sam and another guy in our hall took turns reading "Paradise Lost" through the locked door. I think it made him more paranoid, though." "That's not true," he says. "Well, he *seemed* more paranoid to me," I say. "And he still gets a little weired out when any one mentions angels.

Im not really a tropical paradise kind of person.

Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.

God hides the fires of hell within paradise.

To his ex-wife in court, he said I lost interest in you when the Botox lost its effect and you looked like a plastic doll that escaped from a fire.

I've read pretty broadly on the Holocaust - both fiction and non-fiction - and to me, 'The Lost Wife' is one of the best. The horrors of war serve as a backdrop to a love affair that spans a lifetime, and that love story stayed with me long after I put down the book.

Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.

Making your bed could be a piece of art, and writing a book could be a piece of art. You could also write a book that's not a piece of art, but that is a book, and it could be a book that was written by an artist.

The older I get, the more I appreciate my childhood. It was paradise.

It's a blessing to be paid to be in paradise. The Hawaiian people are so friendly.

To live in a peaceful home is to experience paradise on earth

I remember going over proofs of this book - my first book - back in 2001, in a bar in Toronto called the 'Victory Cafe', and thinking sadly to myself, 'This is a very good manuscript but not a very good book.' I don't know what I meant by that, but I was pretty heartbroken and sure it was true.

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

If 'Mystery Train' is my Nixon book and 'Lipstick Traces' my Reagan book, 'Invisible Republic' is my Bill Clinton book. I really liked Clinton. He made me proud to be part of this country again. For all of his failings, the way he put all that he'd done in jeopardy, I supported him from beginning to end.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

When a movie based on a book comes out, people always say that the book is always better than the movie. So I'm always interested in reading the book, too.