Brush Quotes
443 Brush quotes by 374 unique authors
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For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way between the boles…
— Virginia Woolf
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Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next,…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Now for me, you're the irreplaceable one: I've never see you up so close before, and I do not understand you at all. You say…
— Samuel R. Delany
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Humor (is) the process that allows one to brush reality aside when it gets too distressing.
— Andre Breton
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Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it…
— Guy de Maupassant
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He specializes in virgins! The brush of his fingertips turns virgins into slobbering mush." Mary Lou Molnar
— Janet Evanovich
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I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that…
— Donald Miller
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When Eleanor's arm touched his he felt his hands grow cold with deadly fear lest he should lose the shadow brush with which his imagination…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes…
— Don DeLillo
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And now I was trying to brush my hair,you know,when I thought about it,and looking at myself in mirrors,wondering if I was pretty.Pretty! A year…
— James Patterson
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- Might it console you to know that I expect nothing but torture from her return? That I regard you as a bird of paradise?…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Grow the lawn and mow the lawn always keep the TV on, brush your teeth and kill the germs, poison apples, poison worms.
— Trenton Lee Stewart
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Shave that jaw, brush that hair, tone down the crazy in the eyes, and he would have to fight women off with that crossbow.
— Ilona Andrews
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we reach with our hands and brush away the clouds and pierce the sky to reach the moon and Mars but we still can't reach…
— Tite Kubo
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I didn't wash today. I wasn't dirty. If I'm not dirty, I don't wash. Some weeks I don't have to shower at all. I just…
— George Carlin
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Love That’s it: The cashless commerce. The blanket always too short. The loose connexion. To search behind the horizon. To brush fallen leaves with four…
— Gunter Grass
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After my brush with the suicidal impulse, I listen with new ears to others when they speak on the subject. I think there are people…
— Douglas Coupland
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You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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No one wants to admit we're addicted to music. That's just not possible. No one's addicted to music and television and radio. We just need…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One…
— Henry Adams
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Yes, I'm too mad to punish you right now. We'll talk about it when we get home. Go brush your teeth, comb your hair, put…
— Ilona Andrews
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One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair, that's a table,…
— Virginia Woolf
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It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I…
— Jon Krakauer
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Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a…
— Jim Butcher
Who Wrote These Brush Quotes
374 authors contributed a total of 443 Brush Quotes, led by these top contributors: