Fastened Quotes
46 Fastened quotes by 45 unique authors
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So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma…
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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A few days back someone sent me two feathers. Two bird's feathers in a sheet of note-paper with a coronet, and fastened with a seal.…
— Knut Hamsun
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I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and…
— Mark Twain
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Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by my first perception,…
— Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day…
— Annie Dillard
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When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that…
— Roland Barthes
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The intruder hesitated, turned, and anchored itself in the corner, where the ceiling met the wall. It sat there, fastened to the paneling by enormous…
— Ilona Andrews
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Here," Myrnin said, his voice still gentle and low. "Amelie said you had to work. No one said you had to work alone." He picked…
— Rachel Caine
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Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and…
— Franz Kafka
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It was a quiet way - He asked if I was his - I made no answer of the tongue But answer of the eyes…
— Emily Dickinson
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It's like the Tibetan Wheel of the Passions. As the wheel turns, the values and feelings on the outer rim rise and fall, shining or…
— Haruki Murakami
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There is certainty in a ring. The non-ending, the non-beginning. The ongoing. The way it holds on to you not because it's fastened or stretched…
— David Levithan
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Ned was clad in a white linen doublet with the direwolf of Stark on the breast; his black wool cloak was fastened at the collar…
— George R. R. Martin
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And tonight our skin, our bones, that have survived our fathers, will meet, delicate in the hold, fastened together in an intricate lock. Then one…
— Anne Sexton
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Alex grabbed our things from the bike and bought them inside; then he fastened the tent closed, securing us in. "Come here, babe, I'll keep…
— L.A. Weatherly
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Every hour comes with some little fagot of God's will fastened upon its back.
— Frederick William Faber
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Eventually women will learn there's no such thing as freedom. Their husbands are just as fastened to the deck as they are. Men get onto…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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The thoughts of those moved by natural human love are almost completely fastened on the beloved, their hearts are filled with passion for it, and…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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A gold book, fastened together in the shape of a book by wires of the same metal, had been dug up in the northern part…
— Charles Anthon
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When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the…
— Orville Wright
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Be alive! see what u want! DO NOT lose your fascination! What your fascinated with becomes fastened to you!
— Rev Run
Who Wrote These Fastened Quotes
45 authors contributed a total of 46 Fastened Quotes, led by these top contributors: