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Quotes About Visitor

Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart; eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life. And, with those eyes, those interior eyes, open upon that coldness, I lay half asleep and looked at the visitor, death.
~ Thomas Merton
The two men sipped their drinks silently, allowing Alastair a moment more to assess his visitor. The MacGregor tartan had been his idea. He wanted no one to suspect what was afoot. His guest's face, however, was difficult to make out. Despite the fire's warmth, the man seemed reluctant to remove the plaid from his head and
~ Kathleen Morgan
The world is a garden of philosophy. God is its gardener; Man is the visitor. And any tree that does not bear fruits of philosophy either does not belong to that garden or is yet to be grown.
~ Kedar Joshi
THE OLD FAITHFUL area was the largest complex in the park, consisting of hundreds of cabins, the Snow Lodge, retail stores, souvenir shops and snack bars, a rambling Park Service visitor center, and the showpiece structure of the entire park: the hundred-plus-year-old Old Faithful Inn that stood in sharp, gabled, epic relief against the star-washed sky.
~ C.J. Box
Da ist ein Herr für Sie, Herr Baron — ein Herr Asenkerschbaumer? Sehr dringlich, sagt er?« Gerhard behandelte alle Indikative als Fragen, ein fränkischer Hamlet.
~ Carl Amery
But with the creature from worlds beyond space sitting in the midst of it
~ Isaac Asimov
but had always felt she was a visitor. She felt disconnected and different everywhere else too, but far from being a problem this gave her a sense of pride, as it added to her view of herself as a distant, mysterious artist vaguely superior to the rest of mortals.
~ Isabel Allende
Remember that when an employee enters your office, he is in a strange land.
~ Erwin H. Schell
Paris Hilton is going on a goodwill mission to Rwanda. It's the first time an entire Third World country will have to get immunizations for a visitor.
~ Chelsea Handler
Otherwise you might have an old Irish slag knocking at your door in the wee hours.
~ Caroline Kepnes
Was Juan a recherché welcome guest
~ George Gordon Byron
I often spend half the night with ghosts, remembering times fifty years past as if they were yesterday. The mystery of a midnight visitor is a welcome diversion.
~ George R.R. Martin
I realize I'm just a silly stranger goofing with other strangers for no reason far away from anything that ever mattered to me what that was--Always an ephemeral visitor to the Coast nevery really involved with anyone's lives there because I'm always ready to fly back across the country but not to any life of my own on the other end either, just a traveling stranger like Old Bull Balloon... (p. 178)
~ Jack Kerouac
Instead of the White House, why not take our visiting space alien to ComicCon. We'd have legitimate concerns that nobody would notice an actual alien camouflaged among those pretending to be one. The upside? Our alien visitor phones home and instead reports—"They're just like us!
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.
~ Peter Zumthor
Word spread quickly: The visitor wished to address the scholars. 'What can he want?' they wondered, streaming into the Royal Theater. Attendance was voluntary, and unanimous. If the sight of the warriors wasn't enough to stoke their curiosity, there was rumor of a 'rare opportunity'.
~ Laini Taylor
I was on the stairs coming down when she let him in.
~ Lizzie Andrew Borden
I think he came to the front door and rang the bell, and Maggie let him in, and he said he had forgotten his key; so I think she must have been down stairs.
~ Lizzie Andrew Borden
It is you!" the man exclaimed. "We thought you weren't coming for another week!" "Ashe," Sarene mumbled, "who is this lunatic and what does he want with me?
~ Brandon Sanderson
If it was difficult for a visitor to find anything to eat impromptu in Moscow, Havana, Tirana, Bucharest, or Pyongyang, it took little effort to understand the connection of this difficulty with the vulgar anti-commercialism of Saint Karl and Saint Vladimir. Indeed, it would have taken all the ingenuity of the cleverest academics not to have understood it.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
The doctor was a frequent visitor at Miss Trumball's establishment, preferring it to the Lanchester house, whose girls had a saturnine disposition in his opinion, as if imported from Maine or other gloom-loving provinces.
~ Colson Whitehead
They brought along a young man named Andy who wants very much to see you." She steps aside to let him through. I tuck my hair back behind my ears. Meet his shining gaze and break into a smile. He is so tall.
~ Laura Wiess
experienced local pilots, familiar with the seas and tides, were valuable to a visitor like Drake.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Entertaining those who come to see me is my objective.
~ Gervinho