Crumpled Quotes

53 quotes by 46 authors

I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled up attitude in… — H.G. Wells
All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this crumpled… — Louis Kahn
From this height the sleeping city seems like a child's construction, a model which has refused to be constrained by imagination. The volcanic plug might… — Ian Rankin
A party is a political tool. If it's no longer useful, it should be crumpled up and thrown away. — Shintaro Ishihara
I make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget him. I… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Here's a good thing to do if you go to a party and you don't know anybody: First take out the garbage. Then go around… — Jack Handey
The inspiration for the book came after a visitation from a spiritual being that materialized before me on two consecutive nights. Although I crumpled into… — Brad Steiger
It haunted him all night, while he slept alone; it was still there in the morning, when he swallowed his coffee and backed down the… — Richard Yates
If you limit worship to where you are, the minute you leave that place of worship you will leave your attitude of worship behind like… — Tony Evans
You don't play triathlon. You play soccer; it's fun. You play baseball. Triathlon is work that you can leave you crumpled in a heap, puking… — Chris McCormack
I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist. — Aimee Bender
And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has crumpled into dust, how vitally… — Algernon Blackwood
All of the sudden, my right leg caved in. I crumpled to the floor in pain. The doctor weren't sure I'd ever be able to… — Wilt Chamberlain
The disgraced Usurer Yankel D took the baby girl home that evening... He made a bed of crumpled newspaper in a deep baking pan and… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Templeton was down there now, rummaging around. When he returned to the barn, he carried in his mouth an advertisement he had torn from a… — Elwyn Brooks White
Looking at the sky last night and the moon in the first fresh dark, just a few stars, bright with their cold flares, I had… — James Schuyler
Our best yesterdays are now foul piles of crumpled names. — Vladimir Nabokov
I havenâ€™t got the heart to take the mickey out of him, even,â€ said Fred, looking over at Ronâ€™s crumpled figure. â€œMind you . .… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. "He does not look so mighty lying there," he said wonderingly. "He… — Robert Jordan
I couldn't help thinking about my dream, with Annabeth crumpled and lifeless in Luke's arms. Here I was rescuing baby monsters, but I couldn't save… — Rick Riordan

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46 authors contributed a total of 53 Crumpled Quotes, led by these top contributors: