Creaking Quotes
21 quotes by 20 authors
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I can hear my heart beating. I can hear my stomach growling. I can hear my teeth grinding and my joints creaking. My body's so…
— Charles M. Schulz
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Charity is the only lubricant that keeps the axle of the world creaking.
— Austin O'Malley
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Believe me, I grow daily more convinced that the atmosphere is an inexhaustible source of countless beauties. It is up to we artists to learn,…
— Mario de Sa-Carneiro
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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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So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like archangels. The sky…
— H.G. Wells
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Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.
— Paul Desmond
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No creaking gates, no gothic towers, no shuttered windows. Yet for the past ten months this house has been the focus of an astonishing barrage…
— Michael Parkinson
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On these sands and in the clefts of the rocks, in the depths of the sea, in the creaking of the pines, you'll spy secret…
— Homer
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Just as a dancer, turning and turning, may fill the dusty light with the soft swirl of her flying skirts, our weeping willow -- now…
— Ted Kooser
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The street curves in and out, up and down in great waves of asphalt; at night the granite tomb is noisy with starlings like the…
— Charles Reznikoff
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The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds-the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of…
— William Cowper
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I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to…
— Robert Lowell
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The little owls call to each other with tremulous, quavering voices throughout the livelong night, as they sit in the creaking trees.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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She wrote poetry constantly; that was her "work". She was a slow bleeder and she slaved over it for long, exhausting hours, and many a…
— Millard Kaufman
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The old, slow, creaking descriptions are a thing of the past; today the rule is brevity - but every word must be supercharged, high-voltage.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to…
— Robert Lowell
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Once I thought that to be human was the highest aim a man could have, but I see now that it was meant to destroy…
— Henry Miller
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Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between…
— Pierre Schaeffer
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The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise…
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
Who Wrote These Creaking Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 21 Creaking Quotes as follows: