Voluntary Quicksand I read the Chronicle this morning as…

The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, as far as they were concerned,…

— Ridley Pearson

The secret of the illusoriness is in the necessity of a succession of moods or objects. Gladly we would anchor, but the anchorageis quicksand.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sands of time are quicksands ... so much can sink into them without a trace.

— Margaret Atwood

You know something that would really make me applaud? A guy gets stuck in quicksand, then sinks, then suddenly comes shooting out, riding on…

— Jack Handey

And so I began to read,' Sorkar said. 'And at first the complete works were like a jungle, the language was quicksand. Metaphors turned…

— Vikram Chandra

In a business like the movie business, you're going to have a lot of people competing. Somebody is always coming behind them who wants…

— Robert Osborne

“Moinous reaches for Sucette's hand and squeezes it. Oh but I do love you, I do, I swear, in spite of them. However, for…

— Raymond Federman

I resolve to venture into the city on my own. I look at maps in the library—subway maps, bus maps, and regular maps—and try…

— Deborah Feldman

Love is like quicksand - once you're in it's difficult to get out.

— Anonymous

“But there was, she knew, something else. Happiness, she supposed. Whatever that might be. What, exactly, she wondered, was happiness. Very positively she wanted…

— Nella Larsen

So there you have it: Nature is a rotten mess. But that's only the beginning. If you take your eyes off it for one…

— Lee Goldberg

At last you kissed me, I could die in waves again, and one good lick of quicksand took…

— Heather McHugh

“Islanzadi sighed, and suddenly appeared tired. “Ormomis may have been your proper teacher, but you have proved yourself to be Brom’s heir, not Oromis’s.…

— Christopher Paolini

You should climb around inside my brain, Dan. It's like this dark room surrounded by quicksand." "I know what you mean," her brother said…

— Peter Lerangis

Quicksand's got no sense of humor.

— Shinedown