Claws Quotes
183 quotes by 157 authors
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Did they find something wanting in you, Gemma, at the party? You didn’t speak too freely or behave…strangely?†I grew claws and bayed at the…
— Libba Bray
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He is not a bad fellow, though an absolute imbecile in his profession. He has one positive virtue. He is as brave as a bulldog…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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If you keep it," Daneca says, "he'll have his claws in you." Everyone has their claws in me. Everyone.
— Holly Black
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No, my dear, I'm not in love with you, no more than you are with me, and if I were, you would be the last…
— Margaret Mitchell
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Im's offspring stare at stars and make clocks that calculate useless happenings like the angle of a hawk's claws as it strikes its prey. They…
— Ilona Andrews
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Well I've been calling myself Scarlet Pattinson for several weeks. Have you seen Robert Pattinson? Hottest. Man. Ever. And no, I don't care if that…
— Gena Showalter
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It was his eyes. When you looked into them, you saw chained violence baring teeth and claws back at you.
— Ilona Andrews
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Don't think for a minute that bad publicity and endless criticism don't leave their claw marks on everyone concerned. Your friends try to cheer you…
— Ava Gardner
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I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either." Piggy paused. "Unless—" Ralph moved…
— William Golding
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Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control…
— Jonathan Franzen
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I was always either so unreasonably and pointlessly happy that no one place could seem to contain me, or so melancholy, so sick and silly…
— David Foster Wallace
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Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of…
— Chinua Achebe
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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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It is Nixon himself who represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character that almost every country in the world has…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Grief is like sinking, like being buried. I am in water the tawny color of kicked-up dirt. Every breath is full of choking. There is…
— Lauren Oliver
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Beware the Jabberwock, my son The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!
— Lewis Carroll
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Will-," Tessa began but it was too late, Church made a yowling noise at being woken, and lashed out with his claws. Will began to…
— Cassandra Clare
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Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.
— David Foster Wallace
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I’m warning you, stay back! This sword has magic.' 'Magic!' the dragon gasped in mock fright. It put a claw to its breast. 'Oh, please,…
— Terry Goodkind
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This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws.
— Ilsa J. Bick
Who Wrote These Claws Quotes
157 authors contributed a total of 183 Claws Quotes, led by these top contributors: