All Heaven and Earth are still, though not in sleep, But breathless, as we grow when feeling most.
Why is life speeded up so? Why are things so terribly, unbearably precious that you can't enjoy them but can only wait breathless in dread of their going?
The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs.
I must be besotted,” he said evenly. “I have the imbecilic idea that you’re the prettiest girl I’ve ever seen. Except for your coiffure,” he added, with a disgusted glance at the coils and plumes and pearls. “That is ghastly. ” She scowled. “Your romantic effusions leave me breathless.
What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal. . . and then die.
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.
Where did you learn to kiss like that?” I said, a little breathless. He grinned and pulled me close again. “I said I was a virgin, not a monk,” he said, kissing me again. “If I find I need guidance, I’ll ask.
Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.
I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.
Time is like a wheel. Turning and turning - never stopping. And the woods are the center; the hub of the wheel. It began the first week of summer, a strange and breathless time when accident, or fate, bring lives together. When people are led to do things, they've never done before. On this summersday, not so very long ago, the wheel set lives in motion in mysterious ways.
A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.
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.
For Beatrice- When we were together I felt breathless. Now you are.
PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!
It was less like seeing than like being for the first time seen, knocked breathless by a powerful glance.
Words are just words. The evidence is in how you act, how you react.
People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.
Every single time I read a script I'm breathless as I turn the pages.
There is something about her eyes. Eyes don't breathe. I know that much. But hers look breathless.
The first time we did cavalry charge I was so breathless with excitement I nearly fell off the horse. I actually saw stars in front of my eyes and thought I was going to faint. The second time I had a bit more control but was still giddy with excitement. And the third time I was an emotional wreck. I had to really try hard not to cry.
