Quotes About Lull

What song would lull a snake into submission? "John Mayer?""Over my dead body.""Could be, Tim, could be.

For the best . . . —You're not ready, Empress. The machines won't end without Death.— Yet another decoder-ring statement. My head started hurting as I tried to make sense of his words. I'm almost afraid to ask. —You sail on weeks of lull, then the storm. The game begins in earnest. You must be ready to strike. . . .—

I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations.

Anybody can have a dip in form.

The dangerous temptation of wildlife films is that they can lull us into thinking we can get by without the original models -- that we might not need animals in the flesh.

It was fortunate that tea was at hand, to produce a lull and provide refreshment...

How often do I lull my seething blood to rest, for you have never seen anything so unsteady, so uncertain, as this heart.

doldrums, not only did prices continue to decline

Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.

You could say we've been in a maintenance phase for decades, if not centuries. But now things have gotten destructive, as they have before, and we need to step up from our comfortable lull – our acedia – go to our edge and serve.

In Victorian fiction, there would be a chapter at the end devoted to righting all of the wrongs. I thought to right all of the wrongs would be too glib. I thought it would be better to lull the reader into thinking that is the way it would work, but then not to do that.

Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.

There was a Sabbath lull in the air, which, in a settlement unused to Sabbath influences, looked ominous.

How deliciously ironic that something so apparently beneficial to the mind as education could be twisted into a tool of power to lull young minds into thoughtless adherence.

The seductive comforts of success, though, can lull us into accepting the status quo.

It is always dullest before the yawn.

Twere better far That gods should quaff their nectar merrily, And men sing out the day like grasshoppers, So may they haply lull the watchful thunder.

Sometimes you need to give dishes a nap.

Selalu ada yang membuat terlena dan tak berdaya pada hujan, pada rintik dan aromanya, pada bunyi dan melankolinya, pada caranya yang pelan sekaligus brutal dalam memetik kenangan yang tak diinginkan

Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind.

Home is the hanky-panky of memory - honeyed, quilted - a fabulous once-upon-a-time lull.

Eventually she fell asleep, but I kept the phone against my ear, lulled by her breathing, and her breathing again in the background. And yes, it felt like home. Like everything belonged exactly where it was.

After she's gone, another brief lull sets in. This one is probably the last. But what good is a lull? It's only a breathing spell in which to get more frightened. Because anticipatory fear is always twice as strong as present fear. Anticipatory fear has both fears in it at once - the anticipatory one and the one that comes simultaneously with the dread happening itself. Present fear only has the one, because by that time anticipation is over. ("New York Blues")

The art of a news reporter is to learn how to lull a victim, because all good reporters are confidence tricksters in embryo.