Ate Quotes

522 Ate quotes by 435 unique authors

In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I… — Stephen Crane
I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them… — Ray Bradbury
Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices… — James Joyce
Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children,… — Betty Friedan
For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they are born, the city apartment or farm in which… — W. Somerset Maugham
If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing… — Cornelia Funke
Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept… — Franz Kafka
what sphinx of cement and aluminium bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination — Allen Ginsberg
A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey. — Banksy
He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest. — Kurt Vonnegut
I’d been staying at the Holiday Inn with my girlfriend, honestly the most beautiful woman I’d even known, for three days under a phony name,… — Denis Johnson
One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a… — Khaled Hosseini
I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti — Thomas Harris
He had lunch with Cecilia that afternoon. They ate their corned beef on rye and cream cheese with lox in a diner peopled by waiters… — Mary Gaitskill
I called my mother immediately to inform her that she was a bad parent. "I can't believe you let us watch this. We ate dinner… — Sloane Crosley
Morning: Slept. Afternoon: Slept. Evening: Ate grass. Night: Ate grass. Decided grass is boring. Scratched. Hard to reach the itchy bits. Slept. — Jackie French
Ring around the rosie. A pocket full of posie. Ashes ashes, we all fall down. Some people say that this poem is about the Black… — Scott Westerfeld
I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness. — Aldous Huxley
He almost danced to the fridge, found the three least hairy things in it, put them on a plate and watched them intently for two… — Douglas Adams
probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone. — John F. Kennedy
I don't know. Sometimes I try to say what's on my mind and it comes out sounding like I ate a dictionary and I'm shitting… — J. R. Moehringer
You mean they killed her?" asked David. They ate her," said Brother Number One. "With porridge. That's what 'ran away and was never seen again'… — John Connolly
When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it seems that in those days I ate my lunches, smelled another's skin,… — Michael Chabon
Where is the angry machine of all of us? Why is God such a blurred magician? Why are you begging for your life if you… — Barry Hannah
When Kino had finished, Juana came back to the fire and ate her breakfast. They had spoken once, but there is not need for speech… — John Steinbeck

Who Wrote These Ate Quotes

435 authors contributed a total of 522 Ate Quotes, led by these top contributors: