Covered Quotes
771 Covered quotes by 641 unique authors
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The pavilion that seems to intercept divine aid does not cover God but occasionally covers us. God is never hidden, yet sometimes we are, covered…
— Henry B. Eyring
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When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sung all the time and glittered all over. Some angels got jealous…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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Never judge someone By the way he looks Or a book by the way it's covered; For inside those tattered pages, There's a lot to…
— Stephen Cosgrove
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When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing. And so, laughing and crying, we said good-bye…
— Sherman Alexie
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He held the book up to his nose. It smelled like Old Spice talcum powder. Books that smelled that way were usually fun to read.…
— John Bellairs
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They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make…
— Ernest Hemingway
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They waited. The door did not open. The rain did not stop. The darkness made a tent and covered them completely.
— Timothy Findley
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The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear…
— Douglas Adams
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Nakedness has no color: this can come as news only to those who have never covered, or been covered by, another naked human being.
— James A. Baldwin
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if i was a woman these days, i'd be killing motherfuckers. my handgun would never cool and my hands would be covered in testicular blood.…
— Henry Rollins
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We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different…
— Albert Einstein
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He had this old southern idea of what a lady should be. A lady should not carry a gun and spend most of her time…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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And Man created the plastic bag and the tin and aluminum can and the cellophane wrapper and the paper plate, and this was good because…
— Art Buchwald
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Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him.…
— John Steinbeck
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Policemen and security guards wear hats with a peak that comes down low over their eyes. Apparently this is for psychological reasons. Eyebrows are very…
— Banksy
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The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open…
— Philip K. Dick
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I died for beauty but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned…
— Emily Dickinson
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His forehead was covered by wrinkles brought on by a lot of sun and too much frowning.
— Megan Whalen Turner
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In my darkest night, when the moon was covered and I roamed through wreckage, a nimbus-clouded voice directed me: "Live in the layers,not on the…
— Stanley Kunitz
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Down in the city are the nice houses and the so-so houses and the lovers making out in dark yards and the babies crying for…
— George Saunders
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The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all.
— Clive Barker
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Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness", "joy", or "regret". Maybe the best proof that the language is…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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You're walking through a field all by yourself one day in spring and this sweet little bear cub with velvet fur and shiny little eyes…
— Haruki Murakami
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For several long moments we remained locked together, and I think I covered her hair with small sacred kisses, her perfume crucifying me with memories.
— Anne Rice
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But happiness is not always loud and bright and crowded. Happiness ripens like a watermelon, sweet and rosy on the inside with only a thin…
— E L Konigsburg
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