Boards Quotes
697 Boards quotes by 593 unique authors
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Not like this vision before us, who was shaking water out of his slightly overlong reddish-brown hair as he leaned over to lay down his…
— Meg Cabot
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He said he "admired our courage" but didn't want to see us do anything to "damage our promising futures." He felt "proud as an American"…
— Jordan Sonnenblick
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...when someone asked Bonhoeffer whether he shouldn't join the German Christians in order to work against them from within, he answered that he couldn't. 'If…
— Eric Metaxas
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I've come to see our central nervous system as a kind of vintage switchboard, all thick foam wires and old-fashioned plugs. The circuitry isn't properly…
— Darin Strauss
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Life is a train, get on board.
— Khaled Hosseini
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Oh, for God's sake," I said. "Just give me the stupid thing." I took the panic button and stuck it into my Super Sexy Miracle…
— Janet Evanovich
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And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight…
— Ezra Pound
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If only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and intersections.…
— David Mitchell
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I thought about making biscuits, but there seemed to be more than enough calories on board.
— Charlaine Harris
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We think that we know a man or a woman, when so much of what we know is actually that man's or that woman's situation,…
— Gene Wolfe
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The sun is not ridiculous, quite the contrary. On everything I like, on the rust of the construction girders, on the rotten boards of the…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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...we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real.
— Sylvia Plath
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Journeys up the Metaphoric River are hugely enjoyable and highly recommended. Since every genre is nourished by its heady waters, a paddle steamer can take…
— Jasper Fforde
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Once we turn, it’s new pretty, middle pretty, late pretty.” Shay dropped her arms, and her board stopped drifting. “Then dead pretty.
— Scott Westerfeld
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Your friend is your needs answered. He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving. And he is your board and…
— Khalil Gibran
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This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of these a work…
— Thomas Ligotti
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Dinner was ready. Professor Lidenbrock did full justice to it, for his compulsory fast on board had turned his stomach into an unfathomable gulf.
— Jules Verne
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On December 8, 1921, when the Leopoldina set sail for Europe, we were on board. Our life together had finally begun. We held on to…
— Paula McLain
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I grinned at him, feeling more enthusiastic about my plan now that he was on board. Rosalie was a pain, but I would always owe…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Remorse has no place in a warrior's mind... A war is like a game of chess, Nicholaa. Every battle is like a well-thought-out move on…
— Julie Garwood
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Get rid of their mast, knock holes in the hull, then get back on board." "You want us to sink her?" Gundar asked, and Halt…
— John Flanagan
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The queen was my favorite chess piece. Unlike the women I knew in real life, she was powerful. Her job was to defend her husband…
— Rachel Vincent
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It was a laugh that came from the tip of his toes, gaining force and soul as it traveled through his body and out into…
— David Levithan
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She saw him the first day on board, and then her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a…
— Mark Twain
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