Chests Quotes
44 quotes by 42 authors
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People want me to do the strangest things. They want me to sign their arms or chests.
— Tia Carrere
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You should only attempt to borrow from those who have but few of this world's goods, as their chests are not of iron, and they…
— Heinrich Heine
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Do you girls have hope chests?' Lloyd asked. We certainly do.' I don't,' said Betsy. 'My husband and I are going to use paper plates…
— Maud Hart Lovelace
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These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'Business as usual.' But…
— Yann Martel
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Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests…
— J. G. Ballard
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We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.
— C.S. Lewis
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girls forbidden to dance would only attract husbands with bad complexions and sunken chests.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Well, you missed out on some important protocol, Ella. You can't stand between a Texan and his power tools. We like them. Big ones that…
— Lisa Kleypas
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I consider as lovers of books not those who keep their books hidden in their store-chests and never handle them, but those who, by nightly…
— Desiderius Erasmus
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I'm told I have the body of a god." "A Greek god, or one of those gods with the horse heads or elephant's legs coming…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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Phresine showed him where he could sleep, in an interior room with no windows, a narrow bed, and a washstand. There were chests stacked along…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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Dreams, I thought. They're the riches of a poor person, stashed in treasure chests buried deeply in the imagination. But are dreams enough?
— Virginia C. Andrews
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Many of the male faeries had their shirts unbuttoned and chests bare. (How’s this for freaky: no nipples or belly buttons.)
— Kiersten White
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Every animal on the planet attracts mates with the goal of reproduction. Frogs swell their bodies. Male gorillas beat their chests. Have you ever watched…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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Two U.S. Marine skeletons guarded the doors. They grinned down at us, rocket-propelled grenade launchers held across their chests. "You know," Grover mumbled, "I bet…
— Rick Riordan
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Royce nodded. “Invest in crossbows. Next time stay hidden and just put a couple bolts into each of your target’s chests. All this talking is…
— Michael J. Sullivan
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No one else noticed, or cared. It was just something they did. Taking other people’s livestock. Other people’s lives. She watched the soldiers, hating them.…
— Paolo Bacigalupi
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We’d torn open our chests and shown our cowardly hearts, and you can never stay friends after something like that
— Denis Johnson
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Cath wanted to go back and rewrite every scene she'd ever written about Baz or Simon's chests. She'd written them flat and sharp and hard.…
— Rainbow Rowell
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Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the fact that humans…
— Michael Specter
Who Wrote These Chests Quotes
42 authors contributed a total of 44 Chests Quotes, led by these top contributors: