Quotes About Child's

Rimed and sparkling with sugar, the wrestler lay like some child's flaccid sweetmeat in death, and the dogs licked his eyelids.

All my life I've pursued the perfect red. I can never get painters to mix it for me. It's exactly as if I'd said, "I want Rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist temple" – they have no idea what I'm talking about. About the best red is to copy the color of a child's cap in any Renaissance portrait.

ONE MORNING IN AUGUST 1886, as heat rose from the streets with the intensity of a child's fever

The same picket of urban cowboys met Troy at the lost junction of Cardigan Street and Waterloo Place. The same child's stare, suspicious of any adult, met his greeting to the boys.

André was in an odd, curled-up position in bed, with the bandage over his eyes and one hand pressed against the wall like a child's, as though in the confusion and distress of sleep he had needed to reach out to test the firmness of the world.

Angie's house looked like a child's drawing of a mansion: It was so generic it was barely three-dimensional.

How fragile she had appeared, so breakable, in her borrowed finery and painted child's face.

Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.

Each day had a tranquility a timelessness about it so that you wished it would never end. But then the dark skin of the night would peel off and there would be a fresh day waiting for us glossy and colorful as a child's transfer and with the same tinge of unreality.

She was a teacher, for God's sake. What did she know to say about dangers such as these? How could she assuage a child's fear when her own was straining at the leash?

That was the grand bargain with evil. No wrong ever got righted, any more than a hangman's rope was ever unknotted and used as a child's swing.

strife. Family conflict at ages 7–15 years predicts insomnia at age 18, and marital strife at age 9 months predicts a child's sleep problems at 4½ years.

I suppose actors crave attention of some kind or they have suffered some form of arrested development and are still living in a sort of child's fantasy existence at some level in their psyche.

I've done a Russian movie," Claire said. "Thank God they're still stuck in realism, Zola-crazy. Subtitling their films is like captioning a child's picture book.