Grimly Quotes

32 quotes by 28 authors

A professional football team warms up grimly and disparately, like an army on maneuvers: the ground troops here, the tanks there, the artillery and air… — Ted Solotaroff
Time travel is a terrifying weapon, far more powerful than anything ever before conceived,' he said grimly.'Mankind just isn't ready for that kind of knowledge.… — Alex Scarrow
It is not a sentimental, but a grimly literal fact that unless we share this terrestrial globe with creatures other than ourselves, we shall not… — Joseph Wood Krutch
Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders. — Edward Abbey
American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than… — Camille Paglia
In London, theatregoers expect to laugh; in Paris, they wait grimly for proof that they should. — Robert Dhery
At the moment developing a nice little inoffensive cancer somewhere on dry land seemed infinitely preferable to what she was grimly convinced was soon to… — Dana Stabenow
Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people… — Robert Creeley
The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on… — Edgar Allan Poe
Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other presence of Elizabethan drama which is life: life compact of frigates, fir trees and… — Virginia Woolf
Grimly, she realized that clocks don't make a sound that even remotely resembles ticking, tocking. It was more the sound of a hammer, upside down,… — Markus Zusak
A piratical ghost story in thirteen ingenious but potentially disturbing rhyming couplets, originally conceived as a confection both to amuse and to entertain by Mr.… — Neil Gaiman
Marvin trudged on down the corridor, still moaning. "...and then of course I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left hand… — Douglas Adams
Evanlyn smiled grimly as she thought how once she might have objected to the cruelty of the bird's death. Now, all she felt was a… — John Flanagan
I nearly forgot, Ragnak had a further message for you. He said if we lose this battle and loses his slaves as well, he's going… — John Flanagan
Iâ€™ll take your bet,â€ he said grimly. â€œIâ€™m going to win it. And in three months, Iâ€™m going to put this back on your finger,… — Lisa Kleypas
Are you armed?" Oliver asked her. She glanced down at her backpack and instantly, instinctively held back. "No." "Lie to me again and I'll put… — Rachel Caine
Unfortunately, I can't seal the sponsor deals for you. Only Haymitch can do that," says Effie grimly. "But don't worry, I'll get him to the… — Suzanne Collins
You're getting to be a big boy,' I said desperately, 'it's time you started thinking about your future.' 'I'm thinking about my future,' said Sonny,… — James A. Baldwin
Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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