Crumpled Quotes
53 quotes by 46 authors
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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
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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
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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
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A party is a political tool. If it's no longer useful, it should be crumpled up and thrown away.
— Shintaro Ishihara
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
— Aimee Bender
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Our best yesterdays are now foul piles of crumpled names.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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I haven’t got the heart to take the mickey out of him, even,†said Fred, looking over at Ron’s crumpled figure. “Mind you . .…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Crumpled Quotes
46 authors contributed a total of 53 Crumpled Quotes, led by these top contributors: