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Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more. -- Edgar Allan Poe
We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek. -- Elizabeth Goudge
The narrow path had opened up suddenly onto the edge of a great black lake. Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many turrets and towers. -- J. K. Rowling
Don't panic, but we've got an audience." Clary turned her head. Perched on a nearby tree branch was Hugo, watching them beadily from bright black eyes. So the sound she'd heard had been wings rather than demented passion. That was disappointing. -- Cassandra Clare
The Woodstock dove on the iconic poster is really a catbird. And it was originally perched on a flute. -- Shawn Amos
Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife's edge. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us. -- Roald Dahl
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings. -- Victor Hugo
I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
The quality of life in America is dependent on the quality of the journalism. Most people don't realize that, but if you think about it, journalism is one of the pillars on which our society is perched. -- Scott Pelley
A lot of author events are basically hour-long classes in entropy perched on bad seating under bright, hard lights, with - if you're lucky - bad Chardonnay and cheese on a stick waiting for you at the end of the ride. -- Nick Harkaway
When you see a fantastic colour or cut in a magazine, perched up on some famous so-and-so's head, it's tempting to ask your stylist for the same, but do not be fooled. The hair in those fancy photos can be very high maintenance. -- Beth Ditto
Nobody strikes a medal for the Royal Military Canal campaign any more, but a pint in the back bar of the ancient Mermaid Inn, perched in front of one of the biggest and oldest inglenooks you're ever likely to see, is its own reward. -- David Hewson
Given the tendency of many to picture God's realm as somewhere high above Earth - an idea that sounds suspiciously like the Greek stories of deities perched on inaccessible mountain tops - it may seem plausible to assume that astronomers have special insight. Well, of course they don't. -- Seth Shostak
On a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening -- Matsuo Basho
You have to be careful to kill a fly that is perched on your scrotum. -- Ghana
For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter. -- Charles Bukowski
What an electric heater perched upon the rim of the bathtub of the world that dead Jesus was. -- Tom Robbins
And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl. -- John Milton
We've more important studies than your fantasies and fears You know that rock's been perched up there for a hundred thousand years. -- Harry Chapin
I have no intention of watching undersized Englishmen perched on horses with matchstick legs race along courses planned to amuse Nell Gwynn. -- Gilbert Harding
Baby?" She perched beside him in the chair. "You're kidding me right?" "I was trying it out, no?" "no," she said firmly Simon & Clary -- Cassandra Clare
An unknown force is calling mePerhaps the voice of that star perched on the last heightPerhaps the desire to see the spaces that conceal Europe -- Hélène Baronne d’Oettingen
I look down from the branch I'm perched on. The Careers look murderous. Now I smile.'How have things been with you?' I ask sweetly. -- Suzanne Collins
With the aid of a minute correction - that of the dispersing lens - in a gold frame perched on her nose, Miranda can see into hell. -- Ingeborg Bachmann
I learned about the sacred art of self decoration with the monarch butterflies perched atop my head, lightning bugs as my night jewelry, and emerald-green frogs as bracelets. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
The last time I saw something that tall standing so still for so long, it was perched on the edge of a cliff shining a light across the sea. -- David Icke
Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields. -- Winston Churchill
A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
How our old friend [Michelangelo] of the Sistine would have loved to photograph his workers, perched on the fragile planks. Dali was right to say Leonardo only worked from photographs. -- Jean Cocteau
Through all this horror my cat stalked unperturbed. Once I saw him monstrously perched atop a mountain of bones, and wondered at the secrets that might lie behind his yellow eyes. -- H. P. Lovecraft
A tiny little wooden man [was] slowly ascending the steps to a real set of gallows, both perched on a box that read: Reusable Hangman "? Spell It Or He'll Swing! -- J. K. Rowling
Even the evil-looking bird perched on a rod in the bar had stopped screeching out the names and addresses of local contract killers, which was a service it provided for free. -- Douglas Adams
Sundown had bloodied the horizon over the uneven rooftops of South Boston. Birds were perched on every roof and seemed to be watching the girl walking slowly below. - Cradle and All -- James Patterson
Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of it's name. -- Dean Koontz
Professor Braithwope, shimmering out of his room fully clothed and dapper. His mustache was a fluffy caterpillar of curiosity, perched and ready to inquire, dragging the vampire along behind it on the investigation. -- Gail Carriger

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