Creak Quotes
22 quotes by 21 authors
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All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart,…
— William Butler Yeats
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The smell of the sea, of kelp and fish and bitter moving water, rose stronger in my nostrils. It flooded my consciousness like an ancestral…
— Ross Macdonald
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When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.
— Matthieu Ricard
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Across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of Homer is turned upon our age. Along the echoing corridors of time, the roar of the…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Sometimes she goes out to work as a practical nurse, and comes home and sits by the kitchen table soaking her feet in a pan…
— William Maxwell
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I felt a funeral in my brain, and mourners to and fro kept treading, treading till I felt that sense was breaking through. And when…
— Andrew Solomon
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Another thing that escapes me is HOW to give substance to the forms. One day they look solid and 'real' and they seem to hinge…
— Paula Rego
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... And then I heard them lift a box, And creak across my soul With those same boots of lead, again, Then space began to…
— Emily Dickinson
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If I had grown up in that house I couldn't have loved it more, couldn't have been more familiar with the creak of the swing,…
— Donna Tartt
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In the haunted house of life, art is the only stair that doesn't creak.
— Tom Robbins
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I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I…
— Jack Kerouac
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This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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He smoked a cigarette, standing in the dark and listening to her undress. She made sea sounds; something flapped like a sail; there was the…
— Nathanael West
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Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.
— Andre Maurois
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Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or…
— Bram Stoker
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Panic. You open your mouth. Open it so wide your jaws creak. You order your lungs to draw air, NOW, you need air, need it…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Depression is all about if you loved me you would. As in, if you loved me you would stop doing your schoolwork, stop going out…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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I still get scared at night. Every tiny creak, every little noise, I open my eyes real wide and listen with them. Have you noticed…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and beauty, and I…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.
— Patrick deWitt
Who Wrote These Creak Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 22 Creak Quotes as follows: