“The cartoons she’d watched as a kid had given the impression life would have a lot more quicksand.” — Susannah Nix Copy Share Image
Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually. — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
Loneliness is like quicksand, once you're in it, it's hard to get out of. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The art of walking on quicksand is still beyond me. What I learned is only how difficult this art is to master… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
I think viewers quite like it when I'm suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
“Even a short-lived visit to the bottom level of society means that one is faced with one of the most important decisions… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Memories are like fireflies darting across the surface of my mind, showing me here and there images so sharp and vivid that… — Susan Kay Copy Share Image
“That’s what life is all about. The obvious. The minute we start layering it with shades of grey, we start getting caught… — Cristiane Serruya Copy Share Image
In a business like the movie business, you're going to have a lot of people competing. Somebody is always coming behind them… — Robert Osborne Copy Share Image
“Meditation takes you out of your mind and possibly into the future, negative thoughts are quicksands that keeps you glued to your… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
So there you have it: Nature is a rotten mess. But that's only the beginning. If you take your eyes off it… — Lee Goldberg Copy Share Image
While theoretically a person may block God out, logically there will be a breakdown because ultimately all enunciation implies a moral doctrine… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
Kevin [Drew] beat me to the punch because when he first sent "Sister OK" and I'm listening to it, it took me… — Andy Kim Copy Share Image
Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some girl a hundred years ago… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
There's no more place in the euro zone for well-meaning laxness when dealing with deficits and failings. If the demands on Greece… — Peer Steinbruck Copy Share Image
And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand.… — Vikram Chandra Copy Share Image
Beauty is a dangerous word. Beauty becomes slightly indulgent for me. It's a snatched kind of moment for me because I'm entitled… — Don McCullin Copy Share Image
“Voluntary Quicksand I read the Chronicle this morning as if I were stepping into voluntary quicksand and watched the news go over… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
I testify to you today that turning away from God brings broken covenants, shattered dreams, and crushed hopes. Such a quagmire of… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
You know something that would really make me applaud? A guy gets stuck in quicksand, then sinks, then suddenly comes shooting out,… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
“An easy life is like quicksand:Before you know it, you’re trapped and can’t move, can’t breathe, can’t get to where you really… — Jessica Hagy Copy Share Image
The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Moinous reaches for Sucette's hand and squeezes it. Oh but I do love you, I do, I swear, in spite of them.… — Raymond Federman Copy Share Image
The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, as far as they… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight… — Shekhar Kapur Copy Share Image
We all have a personal pool of quicksand inside us where we begin to sink and need friends and family to find… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
“But there was, she knew, something else. Happiness, she supposed. Whatever that might be. What, exactly, she wondered, was happiness. Very positively… — Nella Larsen Copy Share Image
The secret is not to betray your ignorance. Just maneuver, avoid the quicksands and obstacles, and the rest can be found in… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
“Our virtues are the quicksands, which show themselves at calm and low water; but let the waves arise and the winds buffet… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Some people fall in love and touch the sky. Some people fall in love and find quicksand. I hover somewhere in between,… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
“Surrounding yourself with a lot of desert is a bit like sitting in quicksand: Sooner or later the water will find you… — Karen White Copy Share Image
The hardest part for me during the creation stage is actually putting words on paper that make sense and tell my story… — Linda Conrad Copy Share Image
The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good.… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Generally the impulse to find justice through punitive measures can be a kind of quicksand. What James Whitman, the scholar I cite… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
Most autumns, the water is low from the long dry summer, and you have to get out from time to time and… — John Graves Copy Share Image
And yet the motives of women are so inscrutable. You remember the woman at Margate whom I suspected for the same reason.… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The Lord is near! You're not alone. You may feel alone. You may think you're alone. But there's never a moment in… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
![“Kevin [Drew] beat me to the punch because when he first sent "Sister OK" and I'm listening to it, it took me to a place that I had not been to in a long time. It took me to a place when you're a teenager. I understand it all now, but in a moment of confusion, in a moment of trying to find some…” quote by Andy Kim](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/513/andy-kim-4097_beats_kevin-drew-beat-me-to-the-punch-because_2369037.jpg)
