Quotation Explorer - 'Index'

Those of us who are brave enough to venture out, find so many things that we never knew within. - Linda Poindexter
Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250 - Harper's Index
If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue. - Unknown
I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have an assistant write down each quote on an index card and note where it came from. - Lawrence Wright
It was rather beautiful: the way he put her insecurities to sleep. The way he dove into her eyes and starved all the fears and tasted all the dreams she kept coiled beneath her bones. - Christopher Poindexter
There is no index of character as sure as the voice. - Benjamin Disraeli
Sometimes I sit alone under the stars and think of the galaxies inside my heart and truly wonder if anyone will ever want to make sense of all that I am - Christopher Poindexter
Taste is not only a part and index of morality, it is the only morality. The first, and last, and closest trial question to any living creature is "What do you like?" Tell me what you like, I'll tell you what you are. - John Ruskin
She smiled at him, that same look of shared understanding, then reached in again to touch his hand, pinching his palm between her thumb and index finger. 'You OK?''I could be on fire, but seeing you would make it all OK,' he replied, his voice as brittle as a three-pack-a-day smoker. - Sean Black
Not only didI love her,but I could tellthe universe lovedher, too.More than others.She was different.After all; I wouldbe a fool not tonotice the way thesunshine played withher hair. - Christopher Poindexter
People don't like him (John Poindexter) for the same reason they don't like me…If you get things done in this bureaucracy you step on toes. - Oliver North
Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. - Cyril Connolly
The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. - Cyril Connolly
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back. - Abigail van Buren
Tears are the silent passion for suffering - Christopher Poindexter
She stared at the stars like they were pillow for her mind and in their light she could rest her heavy head. - Christopher Poindexter
She writes things with her movements that I for the life of me could never write with a pen. - Christopher Poindexter
Nothing brings to life again a forgotten memory like a fragrance. - Christopher Poindexter
The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back. - Abigail Van Buren
My hunger for writing will die when I have bled for the humans that never found the strength to find the words themselves - Christopher Poindexter
All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes. - Cicero
If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names. - Elaine Gill
Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power, are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease. - Susan Sontag
she lived with hurricane eyes and fell in love with the way the waves collapsed against her cheeks. - Christopher Poindexter
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