Boards Quotes
697 Boards quotes by 593 unique authors
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Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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She dropped her shyness like a nightgown, and in the liquid glare of sunlight on old boards she held up her hands-as if, in the…
— Gregory Maguire
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And when I look at a history book and think of the imaginative effort it has taken to squeeze this oozing world between two boards…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is…
— Margaret Atwood
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Boards don't hit back.
— Bruce Lee
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A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board
— D. H. Lawrence
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at the end of the game the team with the most points on the board is going to win.
— John Madden
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Here I am, ninety years old and ready for the cooling board, using a brand new Macintosh computer, and there you sit, twenty-two and gorgeous,…
— Stephen King
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Look," said Janet, irritated, "if the thing you liked best to do in the world was read, and somebody offered to pay you room and…
— Pamela Dean
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She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl.…
— Jerry Spinelli
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As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the same height, place…
— Jan Karon
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She felt a board indifference toward the immediate world around her toward other children and adults alike. She took it as a regrettable accident to…
— Ayn Rand
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My lawyers will fricassee your testicles for breakfast. And if you dare board my plane without a warrant, your spleen will follow.
— Dan Brown
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Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board.
— Edith Wharton
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I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board,…
— Audre Lorde
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I give nightly praise to my Maker that I never cast a ballot to bring that lazy, disreputable, ill-tempered beast into what was once my…
— Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
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Whenever you see a board up with "Trespassers will be prosecuted," trespass at once.
— Virginia Woolf
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Time passes and the pain begins to roll in and out as though it’s a woman standing at an ironing board, passing the iron back…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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Catch from the board of beauty/ Such careless crumbs as fall.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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At the rear of the bus, the driver wrenched a big chunk of smoking metal out of the engine compartment. The bus shuddered, and the…
— Rick Riordan
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He read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could read. Nothing short of a human sieve. But in…
— Ted Dekker
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And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world, that old house,…
— Mary Oliver
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Okay, God, I thought. Get me out of this and I’ll stop my half-assed church-going ways. You got me past a pack of Strigoi tonight.…
— Richelle Mead
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All the way up the river she's been holding back somehow, waiting. Now you'll both have to wait. I'm not going to disappoint her, Kit.…
— Elizabeth George Speare
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