“When I was a kid we had a sandbox. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child...eventually.” — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“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
Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's interesting that the worse things get, the more we believe the next technological fix is going to get us out of… — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
“Facing up to cancer is a battle conducted on many fronts. The important thing is not to waste too much strength fighting… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
This is something that I cannot get over -- that a whole line could be written by half a man, that a… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
The Chinese banking system is built on quicksand and that's the one thing a lot of people don't realize. Everybody seems to… — James Chanos Copy Share Image
Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand… — John Updike 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
As I obsess about my ancient problems, I feel more like I'm sinking in quicksand than lighting a torch. I'm creating neither… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think about some of the novels I love - The Stranger, Disgrace, Quicksand and Passing, Giovanni's Room, The Talented Mr. Ripley.… — Danzy Senna Copy Share Image
Capitalism now seems more likely a swamp, a bog, a quicksand in which humanity is presently flailing about, unable to extricate itself,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
It must be a peace without victory...Victory would mean peace forced upon the loser, a victor's terms imposed upon the vanquished. It… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“It took Pueblo a few seconds to take in his surroundings. The first thing he realised was that he felt bruised all… — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
You're playing and you think everything is going fine. Then one thing goes wrong. And then another. And another. You try to… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
“The choices a human being has to make also involve deciding where one stands in an unjust society: we are all political… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
“I was a very nervous kid, I was anxious all the time when I was younger, but what's nice is that some… — John Mulvaney Copy Share Image
“The Trenches of Comprehension by Stewart Stafford Drowning at quicksand's smothering pace, A lonely disappearance that leaves no trace. As I struggle… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Most days I feel like the sole survivor of a shipwreck, rowing my paddleboat across a sea of people on waves made… — Richard M. Nixon 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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“I was raised in the desert and always appreciated the way its landscape gives you a chance to see what's coming. In… — Laura van den Berg 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/quotes/img-quotes/513/andy-kim-4097_beats_kevin-drew-beat-me-to-the-punch-because_2369037.jpg)
