Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree, the fall of a leaf startled me, and I shunned my fellow creatures as if I had been guilty of a crime. – Mary Shelley Frankenstein, Chapter 4. As Victor creates his creature, he isolates himself from society.
October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again. – Hal Borland
Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes. – Bethany McLean
I’m the kind of person who would have liked to have lived at the Plaza. I love crystal chandeliers and gold leaf, velvets and mirrors, Oriental rugs and marble. – Candace Bushnell
This is a coca leaf. This is not cocaine. This represents the culture of indigenous people of the Andean region. – Evo Morales
I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity. – Percy Bysshe Shelley
We need to take a leaf out of nature’s book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash. – Daniel Suarez
I suppose no person ever enjoyed with more relish the infusion of this fragrant leaf than did Johnson. – James Boswell