Chinks Quotes
27 quotes by 27 authors
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In nothing more is the English genius for domesticity more notably declared than in the institution of this festival-almost one may call it-of afternoon tea...the…
— George Gissing
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Visiting my mind is like visiting the Hermes factory. Sh*t is real. You're not going to find a chink. It's 100,000 per cent Jimi Hendrix.
— Kanye West
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Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
— Florence King
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Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.
— William Blake
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The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they…
— Edmund Waller
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Night thoughts have a different color than day thoughts, a different slant, more than anything else they know all the secret paths and chinks in…
— Christa Wolf
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Sometimes it made him [Degas] furious that he could not find a chink in my armor, and there would be months when we just could…
— Mary Cassatt
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They smell of all the baths they didnt take. The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here.
— L. Ron Hubbard
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There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down…
— Gerald Kersh
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And it was there that I saw the most appealing creature in the whole shop. He had a slight chink out of one foot and…
— Chris d'Lacey
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I pray that each one of us stays awake as we fall. I pray that we choose to go into the abyss willingly and that…
— Elizabeth Lesser
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Much of my crying is for joy and wonder rather than for pain. A trumpet's wailing, a wind's warm breath, the chink of a bell…
— Marlena De Blasi
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Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow…
— Edmund Burke
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The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The kind of acting I love is when you watch and you discover what you think perhaps you weren't supposed to see: the chink in…
— Marian Seldes
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Life is a search after power; and this is an element with which the world is so saturated,-there is no chink or crevice in which…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and…
— John Muir
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Americans are cool; if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid,…
— Bear Grylls
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The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past,…
— Harlan Ellison
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You have taught us much. Come with us and join the movement." "This movement of yours, does it have slogans?" inquired the Chink. "Right on!"…
— Tom Robbins
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