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Quotes About Breathless

my love is building a building around you,a frail slippery house,a strong fragile house (beginning at the singular beginning of your smile)a skilful uncouth prison, a precise clumsy prison(building thatandthis into Thus, Around the reckless magic of your mouth) my love is building a magic, a discrete tower of magic and(as i guess) when Farmer Death(whom fairies hate)shall crumble the mouth-flower fleet He'll not my tower, laborious, casual where the surrounded smile hangs breathless
~ ee cummings
I've always thought - and I don't even know if I'd be right for the part - that Jean Seberg would make a great biopic. She was in Jean-Luc Godard's 'Breathless,' she played Joan of Arc. She had this eventful and traumatic adulthood, she thought the FBI was after her, and she became a darling of the French New Wave.
~ Gillian Jacobs
Of course, Annabeth wouldn't be able to breathe, but at the moment, that seemed like a minor problem.
~ Rick Riordan
As we rose over the rooftops I caught my breath-well, if you can catch your breath underwater.
~ Rick Riordan
I kissed him until I couldn't breathe, and then I kissed him a little more, until I had to pull back, gasping. "I have got to die more often," he said. And he grinned, that incredible blaze of a grin that made me kiss him again.
~ Kelley Armstrong
When it comes, you'll be dreaming that you don't need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it's part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.
~ Wis?awa Szymborska
On gratte, on gratte, et puis très vite on respire mal, on sue, il commence à faire terriblement chaud
~ Jean Echenoz
Pure, clean, void, tranquil, breathless, selfless, endless, undecaying, steadfast, eternal, unborn, independent, he abides in his own greatness
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
For a moment she stared at him, panting, breathless and wordless, it seemed, with rage. He'd had no idea she would respond to his capture of her queen so violently. It was rather arousing.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
My spine shoots up straight like I'd been plugged into an eight-volt, and the mere sight of him literally causes my breath to leave my body.
~ Allison Winn Scotch
All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered. 'Rat!' he found breath to whisper, shaking. 'Are you afraid?' 'Afraid?' murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love. 'Afraid! Of HIM? O, never, never! And yet—and yet—O, Mole, I am afraid!' Then the two animals, crouching to the earth, bowed their heads and did worship.
~ Kenneth Grahame
You are the promised kiss of springtime that makes the lonely winter seem long. You are the breathless hush of evening that trembles on the brink of a lovely song.
~ Frank Sinatra
Every time I think of you, I always catch my breath.
~ John Waite
Sometimes I feel so full of love that there is no room for a breath.
~ Debasish Mridha, M.D.
Bella laughed, her head thrown back to expose the smooth line of her throat, and Sam suddenly lost his train of thought. While they'd been eating, the sun had set, and the sight of Bella standing in the moonlight laughing took his breath away. He didn't think he'd ever seen anything so beautiful in his life. And that was more terrifying than any fire.
~ Deborah Blake
I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.
~ Josephine Baker
There must be always remaining in every life, some place for the singing of angels, some place for that which in itself is breathless and beautiful.
~ Howard Thurman
Often enough, one of us will make the other laugh so hard and long that asphyxiation seems a real danger. It's a heady pleasure rare in adulthood, not unlike—I will say it—the shared breathlessness of rousingly successful coitus.
~ Jennifer Haigh
Soul, wilt thou toss again? By just such a hazard Hundreds have lost, indeed, But tens have won all. Angels' breathless ballot Lingers to record thee; Imps in eager caucus Raffle for my soul.
~ Emily Dickinson
So bashful when I spied her! So pretty ? so ashamed! So hidden in her leaflets Lest anybody find ? So breathless till I passed her ? So helpless when I turned And bore her struggling, blushing, Her simple haunts beyond! For whom I robbed the Dingle ? For whom betrayed the Dell ? Many, will doubtless ask me, But I shall never tell!
~ Emily Dickinson
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~ Enid Blyton
Todo aquello que siento la tentación de comenzar, que requiere un sostenido esfuerzo, hace que me sienta demasiado seguro de que no estoy a la altura de la vida tal como yo la amo y se me ofrece: la vida hasta perder el aliento.
~ Andre Breton
Suddenly I had a call one day saying they'd like me to come to the office to see Jean-Luc Godard. 'He is preparing a film called 'Breathless.' Jean would like to see you.' I said yes. I thought he was pretty strange, because at that time nobody was wearing those kind of glasses where you couldn't see the eyes.
~ Anna Karina
Even at its most outrageous early moments, the Tea Party movement was treated to sober and at times breathless media coverage, to the point of being invited to co-host a presidential debate.
~ Joy Reid