Framed Quotes
129 quotes by 119 authors
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Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!
— C J Cherryh
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Gave her love away, put it in my pocket when it should of been framed!
— Eddie Vedder
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Paintings are seldom guilty and often framed for crimes they did not commit. Some cover holes-holes in walls, holes in lives. Some make holes-in wallets,…
— Marilyn Manson
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On the plus side, if he ever had to fight through a roomful of adolescent girls, he only needed to blink (his velvet brown eyes…
— Ilona Andrews
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But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How they have turned…
— Carson McCullers
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The painting was framed in a misty view of sky, sea, and valley. Newt's painting was small, black, and warty. It consisted of scratches made…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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He lifted his gaze to the framed photograph of Tanya and him taken on their wedding day. God, she had been lovely. Her smile had…
— Sandra Brown
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Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The kitchen was bright, cheerful yellow, the walls decorated with framed chalk and pencil sketches Simon and Rebecca had done in grade school. Rebecca had…
— Cassandra Clare
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The circus tent was flowing pale in the rain like a fleshy flower lit from within. It seemed to bloom in the downpour. Drops of…
— Francesca Lia Block
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I can smell the smoke now. I can see tendrils of it comin' up between the cracks in the shrikin' floorboards. There she is, calmly…
— L.A. Meyer
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He does have surprising, secret purposes. I open a Bible, and His plans, startling, lie there barefaced. It’s hard to believe it, when I read…
— Ann Voskamp
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The window opened in the same direction as the king's, and there, summer-bright and framed by the darkness of the stairwell, was the same view.…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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I have to spring a cat out of Rumelt Animal Shelter. Think of it as a prison break." It does the trick. He laughs. "Whose…
— Holly Black
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The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark. When you look…
— Jeanette Winterson
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A framed photo on a dusty bookshelf caught his attention; he moved closer and picked it up silently. A small girl with long blond hair…
— L.A. Weatherly
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Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on…
— Margaret Atwood
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I thought, “I want to die. I want to die more than ever before. There’s no chance now of a recovery. No matter what sort…
— Osamu Dazai
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Behind a rack of framed photos of Snow, we encounter a wounded Peacekeeper propped up against a strip of brick wall. He asks us for…
— Suzanne Collins
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Paying tax should be framed as a glorious civic duty worthy of gratitude - not a punishment for making money.
— Alain de Botton
Who Wrote These Framed Quotes
119 authors contributed a total of 129 Framed Quotes, led by these top contributors: