Quotes About Visitor

Are you all right, Sir? asked Hezekiah. Just fighting over old battles in my mind, said John. It's the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I'm the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays. Hezekiah laughed, but there was affection in it. I would love nothing better than to visit there. But I'm afraid I'd be tempted to loot the place, and carry it all away with me.

A child in his nightshirt cannot be prevailed upon to greet an arriving visitor.

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

I found myself wishing that Jeeves wasn't always so dashed tactful. I mean, it's all very well to remove yourself like an eel sliding into mud when the employer has a visitor, but there are moments — and it looked to me as if this was going to be one of them — when the truer tact is to stick round and stand ready to lend a hand in the free-for-all.

The body is a treacherous friend. Give it its due; no more. Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness, trying at the same time to remove yourself beyond their power. Imagination is the door through which disease as well as healing enters. Disbelieve in the reality of sickness even when you are ill; an unrecognized visitor will flee!

knew how to walk in a great city and I did not. Outlander, visitor, I could smell the sea as I entered the lobby of Savannah's apartment, the old familiar scent of the Eastern seaboard roaring up the Avenues. The antique elevator, the size and shape of a coffin, wheezed and groaned its way to the sixth floor. I set my luggage on the marble floor and tried twelve keys before I discovered the four

Though I will always be a visitor to Charleston, I will always remain one with a passionate belief that it is the most beautiful city in America and that to walk the old section of the city at night is to step into the bloodstream of a history extravagantly lived by a people born to a fierce and unshakable advocacy of their past.

Is it necessary to say what my first impression was when I looked at my visitor's card? Surely not! My sister having married a foreigner, there was but one impression that any man in his senses could possibly feel. Of course the Count had come to borrow money of me. Louis, I said, do you think he would go away if you gave him five shillings?

Singaporeans seemed generally quite loathe to discuss these more intimate policies of government with a curious foreign visitor who was more than twice as tall as the average human, and who sweated slowly but continuously, like and aged cheese.

She accepts the ways of this visitor as a natural phenomenon; How he comes and goes, exists, talks, laughs with her, falls silent, listens to her, and then he vanishes.

Later I learned to improve my forecasting—if necessary by asking the visitor in advance what subjects he intended to raise with Nixon. In

Stevie Winwood, on Traffic's first tour, was our first office visitor from the world of music.

No one else was there, with the weather like this. If I still lived there, I'd be indoors too. It's a visitor's privilege to be foolish.

Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.

I believe this," said Jerboa, "is our first visitor from the lost continent.

I am a stranger in all countries.

arrived in the afternoon, along with

Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

A customer is the most important visitor on our premises, he is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him.

If you think it's bad now, my friend, wait till we reach a town!' He shook his head and brushed at his tattered, dirty shirtsleeve. 'Do try to remember we're visitors-and not welcome ones-if you should feel moved to reason with anyone.

The worst of sages is a visitor of princes; the best of princes is a visitor of sages.

read that according to Shinto, the ancient religion of Japan, the invisible space of a doorway is what both separates and unites two opposite worlds. It is still everyday tradition for a visitor approaching someone's home to call out, "Ojama shimasu." Used in the same way, we might say, "May I come in?" The literal translation is, "I am about to disturb you.

Tag opened the door to his knock, and with a look of disappointment, peered behind Wade. You got someone better coming over? Wade asked him. Pizza, Tag said.

You have a visitor, my lord. I frowned, What? That is why I came in here. You have a visitor waiting for you. I stood up, exasperated. Why didn't you say so? Lacuna looked confused. I did. Just now. You were there. She frowned thoughtfully. Perhaps you have brain damage. It would not shock me in the least, I said. Would you like me to cut open your skull and check, my lord? she asked. Someone that short should not be that disturbing.