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Quotes About Sighed

The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse.
~ Joseph Conrad
She was a beautiful woman." Gavner sighed, tracing the outline of one of the elephants. "She just had very bad taste in underwear …" "And in boyfriends," I added impishly. Mr. Crepsley burst into laughter at that
~ Darren Shan
I sighed. "Yeah. OK. Forget the question." "I'll forget it. My question is, can you?" He looked at me as though he hadn't a care in the world.
~ Richard Bach
Akane sighed with relief. Having any more blank periods cutting into the film of her life would be unbearable.
~ K?ji Suzuki
When Adam found his rib was gone He cursed and sighed and cried and swore And looked with cold resentment on The creature God has used it for.
~ John Hollander
Adrian sighed. "I knew you staying out of trouble was too good to be true.
~ Richelle Mead
I sighed immersed in a sleeping sea. A ripple that turned into waves and then storm, stirring and blending our troubled waters
~ Luca Ferrarini
was right. She sighed. It was beyond frustrating when things you didn't like were also your reality. "Where do you want the living room furniture?" one of the movers asked. She directed him inside
~ Jana Deleon
Jahrling sat down at his desk and sighed. There was a landfill of papers on his desk, mostly about smallpox, and it was discouraging. On top of the heap sat a large red book with silver
~ Richard Preston
Otis clopped forward and sighed. Well, if you need a volunteer to die, I suppose I can do it. I've always loved weddings- Shut up, dummy! Marvin said. You're a goat!
~ Rick Riordan
Heaven help us if we are not better observers than the police," I retorted. "We are scientists, trained in the art of observation," I reminded him. "So what do we observe here?" He sighed,
~ Deanna Raybourn
Perhaps Dernhil knew there was no time. He had foresight..." Cadvan sighed and looked away. "But he was ever one who looked clearly into his own heart. That is the beauty of his poems. Would that all of us were so lucid.
~ Alison Croggon
Really, Sage? A date?" I sighed. "Yes, Adrian. A date." "A real date. Not, like, doing homework together," he added. "I mean like where you go out to a movie or something. And a movie that's not part of a school assignment. Or about something boring." "A real date.
~ Richelle Mead
Adrian sighed. "I knew you staying out of trouble was too good to be true.
~ Richelle Mead
I don't suppose you offered to help?" "Sage," Adrian declared. "These hands don't do manual labor." He knocked another ball into a hole. "You want to play?" "What? With you?" "No, with Clarence." He sighed at my dumbfounded look. "Yes, of course with me.
~ Richelle Mead
Really, Sage? A date?" I sighed. "Yes, Adrian. A date." "A real date. Not, like, doing homework together," he added. "I mean like where you go out to a movie or something. And a movie that's not part of an assignment. Or about something boring." "A real date.
~ Richelle Mead
Norman sighed and shook his head. He couldn't afford the risk. Not while that thing still sprawled in the shower stall back at the motel. Leaving it there was even more risky.
~ Robert Bloch
I sighed. And what am I to you, Al? My maid, he said brightly. Shall we do this?
~ Kim Harrison
I held my breath as Dali sighed, eyes averted as he balanced what was at stake and what it might cost. Pride was his fulcrum, unfairly shifting the weight so that one side had greater force than the other to make a wrong decision more than possible, but likely. We were going to doom the world to another wave of needless violence because of pride, I thought
~ Kim Harrison
Virgin-white she was, and her arms were folded across her still bosom; calm was her face, and the gray tides sighed about her slender limbs.
~ Robert E. Howard
What a pity it wouldn't stay!' sighed the Lory, as soon as it was quite out of sight; and an old Crab took the opportunity of saying to her daughter 'Ah, my dear! Let this be a lesson to you never to lose YOUR temper!' 'Hold your tongue, Ma!' said the young Crab, a little snappishly. 'You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!
~ Lewis Carroll
Shearwater sighed, like a whale in the night.
~ Aldous Huxley
being able to conceal from himself the ridiculous appearance that such a steed gave him, good horseman as he was. He had sighed deeply, therefore, when accepting
~ Alexandre Dumas
Because of the cold blowing up from the water, I put on my gloves, sighed for no good reason, as one is inclined to do at night beside a river, but then I wanted to walk on.
~ Franz Kafka