Checked Quotes
211 quotes by 185 authors
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Good. If you checked your e-mail every five minutes, or keep texting and Tweeting in the middle of our conversation, I might snap your neck…
— Jeaniene Frost
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You know you've checked into Heartbreak Hotel for real when you feel less desirable than uncooked fish.
— Plum Sykes
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Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our…
— A.J. Cronin
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The soldier had stamped my passport FAMILY in heavy black capital letters and I checked it now for reassurance and because I liked how fierce…
— Meg Rosoff
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Anybody have any money?†Frank checked his pockets. “Three denarii from Camp Jupiter. Five dollars Canadian.†Hedge patted his gym shorts and pulled out what…
— Rick Riordan
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Tabitha checked her watch. It was almost ten. “I don’t know about you, but I’m famished. Want to go grab a bite?†Valerius gave her…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I checked my gear, my pockets, my shoelaces, and realized that I had crossed the line between making sure I was ready and trying to…
— Jim Butcher
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She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was…
— Nicholas Sparks
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We have to get the Diamond. And Cesare’s head.†They looked at me. “Why the head?†Doolittle asked. “Because it’s easy to carry and I…
— Ilona Andrews
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Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of…
— William James
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Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general…
— George Orwell
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Without free speech no search for truth is possible; without free speech progress is checked and the nations no longer march forward toward the nobler…
— Charles Bradlaugh
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I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an…
— Bruce Feiler
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Last time I checked, the digital universe was expanding at the rate of five trillion bits per second in storage and two trillion transistors per…
— George Dyson
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Communication between band-mates is imperative. Communication is the key to any healthy relationship. If I need to be checked, I expect to hear it put…
— Phil Anselmo
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The impression left after watching the motions of birds is that of extreme mobility - a life of perpetual impulse checked only by fear.
— Richard Jefferies
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When I was writing about the Republican primaries, it was as though the Bible was a black box that people reached into to pull out…
— Walter Kirn
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I grew up in Iowa, and the improv comedy club Comedy-Sportz across the river in Illinois held auditions. They took me even though I was…
— Eric Christian Olsen
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I post on Twitter regularly, and when I checked my followers, I saw that my own characters were following me. They sounded eerily like my…
— Neal Shusterman
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I am an advocate for going to the doctor and going every year. I make sure that part of the checkup is spent talking about…
— Andie MacDowell
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185 authors contributed a total of 211 Checked Quotes, led by these top contributors: