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Letter "D" » drowsy
«A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.»
Author: George Jean Nathan
(Critic, Editor, Essayist, Journalist)
| About:
Love,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
deepest, drowsy, electrified, electrify, electrifying, enkindled, enkindles, one species, reserves, species, tenderly
«When men were all asleep the snow came flying, / In large white flakes falling on the city brown, / Stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying, / Hushing the latest traffic of the drowsy town.»
Author: Robert Bridges
(Physician, Poet)
| Keywords:
brown, drowsy, fall asleep, flake, hush, hushed, Hushing, large white, latest, loosely, perpetually, Snow White, stealthily, traffic
«And when love speaks, the voice of all the godsMakes heaven drowsy with the harmony.»
«If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.»
«Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter's pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.»
«My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains / My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.»
«It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
doom, drowsy, gluttony, inactive, laziness, tranquility
«Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
drowsy, tale, tedious, vexes, vexing
«The pipe, with solemn interposing puff,Makes half a sentence at a time enough;The dozing sages drop the drowsy strain,Then pause, and puff -- and speak, and pause again.»
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