It was certain to rain guards as soon as the fence was…

“He cursed himself for having assumed the weather would be sunny. Perhaps it was the result of evolution, he thought--some adaptive gene that allowed…

— Helen Simonson

Most folks are like a barb-wire fence. They have their good points.

— Texas Bix Bender

I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire.

— Ilona Andrews

May the state fence in the harmless mentally ill solely to save its citizens from exposure to those whose ways are different? One might…

— Potter Stewart

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool singing…

— Sara Teasdale

Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.

— Ben Aaronovitch

The first time I played golf was in Flushing Meadows, Queens, when I was about 16 or 17. They had an 18-hole pitch-and-putt. My…

— Ray Romano

Life is not that simple. That is why it is called life. That word includes both lie and if. Time to figure out which…

— Corey Taylor

Pedestrian's rights - because we live in California, I've got to address this issue. I don't know where on the fence I am about…

— Janeane Garofalo

My loneliness...still comes over me sometimes...It's a liminal, lost sensation of having wandered wide, endless boulevards, among rows of orange trees, winter butterflies, seasons…

— Marco Roth

I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got…

— Lee Friedlander

She was gone, and all that was left was the space where you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence.

— Nicole Krauss

I have yet to see someone attack Obama over his report card. A lot of people I talk to from both sides of the…

— Lupe Fiasco

My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little…

— Imelda Marcos

By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.…

— H. L. Mencken