Crouching Quotes

27 quotes by 26 authors

I'd like to be a more consistent starter. I'd like a smoother transition from crouching to running. I have to learn to relax during a… — Donovan Bailey
For thirty centuries, from her sacred seat the cat looked down, and crouching at her feet, beheld the race of conquering Pharaohs kneel. — Hippolyte Taine
It is not the glorious battlements, the painted windows, the crouching gargoyles that support a building, but the stones that lie unseen in or upon… — John Owen
Barbarians, we call them, while all the while we timidly cling to our Web like Visigoths crouching in the ruins of Rome's faded glory and… — Dan Simmons
If I were to speak of war, it would not be to show you the glories of conquering armies but the mischief and misery they… — Clara Barton
Capture of Nanking Rain and a windstorm rage blue and yellow over Chung the bell mountain as a million peerless troops cross the Great River.… — Mao Zedong
Ten years before Matrix, ten years before Crouching Tiger - I wanted to do a Hong Kong action movie. — Robert Mark Kamen
I review all I know, but can synthesize no meaning. When I doze, the Fact, the certain accomplished calamity, wakes me roughly like a brutal… — Elizabeth Smart
Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down… — Zhang Ziyi
Tonight's December thirty-first, something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it's midnight,… — Ogden Nash
Nature has always something rare to show us... and the danger to life and limb is hardly greater than one would experience crouching deprecatingly beneath… — John Muir
You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' to talk about love. — Jet Li
Sin is the Monster we love to deny. It is crouching at the door and it wants you, but you must overcome it. — Frank Peretti
I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise… — Khaled Hosseini
The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don't always feel as if you're nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel perfectly sane, and… — Christopher Moore
I saw the movie, 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' and was surprised because I didn't see any tigers or dragons. And then I realized why: they're… — Steve Martin
Aubrey, crouching on a nearby counter, watched me with squinty eyes, apparently pondering why anyone would willingly immerse themselves in water ever, let alone for… — Richelle Mead
An immense body, encircling my delirium, a body made of wind and sunlight, crouching and stretching, encompassed the existence of the slightest human echo. — JoÃ« Bousquet
You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of every joke and waiting to pounce on it,… — Kevin Brockmeier
Henry turned as if to dart out of the room, then swung around and stared at them, a look of confusion passing over his freckled… — Cassandra Clare

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