Quotes for All
Alexia had found pregnancy relatively manageable, up to a point. That point having been some three weeks ago, at which juncture her natural reserves of control gave way to sentimentality. Only yesterday she had ended breakfast sobbing over the fried eggs because they looked at her funny. The pack had spent a good half hour … Read more
A half-hour walk is the most beneficial thing you can do for your ailments. Ernie J Zelinski
Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe. Personally, I go for the old existential meltdown followed by acting weird for the next half hour. But everyone feels something. Enrico Fermi
Holly walked rapidly into the cockpit, strapping herself into the pilot’s chair. Seven and a half hours to save the world. Isn’t there some law that says we get at least twenty-four? Artemis strapped himself into the co-pilot’s chair. I don’t think Opal bothers with laws. Eoin Colfer
The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one. Emily Bronte
My drawings have to be quick. If they don’t happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they’re no good. Ellsworth Kelly
It seemed as though he gave way all at once; he was so languid that he could not control his thoughts; they would wander to her; they would bring back the scene,- not of his repulse and rejection the day before but the looks, the actions of the day before that. He went along the … Read more
Perfect moments don’t turn into half-hours. Elizabeth Bibesco
We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal Edgar Allan Poe
A short story is \”a short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour, to one or two hours in its perusal…having conceived, with deliberate care, a certain unique or single effect to be wrought out. Edgar Allan Poe