Convulsed Quotes

11 quotes by 8 authors

• Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal; yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which… — Adam Sedgwick
• Or-but this more rarely happened-she would be convulsed with a rage of grief, and sob out her love for her mother, in broken words, and… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed, or perhaps convulsed;… — Henry Thomas Buckle
• The earth is convulsed with a universal sob, and the roads are muddy with tears. But I do not call to mind a more touching… — Edgar Wilson Nye
• From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it. — Groucho Marx
• notice the convulsed orange inch of moon perching on this silver minute of evening — E E Cummings
• We are today, in this country, convulsed by the situation in Iraq. It is an extraordinary crisis. It is taxing our men and women in… — Jack Reed
• In the best traditions of American comedy, from its beginnings through the crash-bang comedies of the 1990s and 2000s, Leslie Nielsen skewered the otherwise proper,… — Tom Shales
• From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. — Groucho Marx

Who Wrote These Convulsed Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 11 Convulsed Quotes as follows:

• 2 Convulsed Quotes by Groucho Marx
• 1 Convulsed Quote by Adam Sedgwick
• 1 Convulsed Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• 1 Convulsed Quote by Henry Thomas Buckle
• 1 Convulsed Quote by Edgar Wilson Nye
• 1 Convulsed Quote by E E Cummings
• 1 Convulsed Quote by Jack Reed
• 1 Convulsed Quote by Tom Shales