Death is the least civilized rite of passage.

A Passage to India. It is my favourite movie.

The mere passage of time makes us all exiles.

Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.

The worse the passage the more welcome the port.

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.

Sometimes I feel that 'Footloose' is the rite of passage.

What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.

It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground.

My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.

Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.

What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.

I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative.

It is sheer folly when all is gone to lose even one's passage money.

You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

Refusing to teach a passage of Scripture is just as wrong as abusing it

To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.

There are secret passages all around you if you know where to look for them.

Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage.

You look older.” “Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person.

I want to be clear that I only share passages from the Bible as a gesture of love.

death - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.

The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless

By the time I went to college, I knew the major passages of the Bible pretty much by heart.

Passage Vero-Dodat - I started my company on this passage. It feels as much home as it can!

Oh, he's magic. Faulkner has opened passages in my brain. You do things you'd never expect.

The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.

I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!

Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.

Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.

There is as much ingenuity in making an felicitous application of an passage as in being the author of it.

I don't expect that because I was successful in one field that I will then get a ride of passage into another.

somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.

[During] the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter [Fair Pay Act], equal pay for equal work, the women led that fight.

Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.

The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita.

Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest And passage through these looms God ordered motion, but ordained no rest.

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

The hours I spent attempting to decipher some of Dunnett's more oblique passages opened me to the possibilities of romantic storytelling.

One thing the passage of time has shown me is that you never know how you'll behave in a situation until you're in that situation yourself.

Some of the poetic writers who insert passages of realism in their texts have no underlying philosophy to uphold them, and revert to realism.

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'

For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.

I do not care so much for the death of my gunner, as for other passages of my voyage, for I have good friends in England that will bring me off for that.

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.

In every literate society, learning to read is something of an initiation, a ritualized passage out of a state of dependency and rudimentary communication.

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