Hung Quotes
515 Hung quotes by 447 unique authors
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I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night,…
— Jack Kerouac
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Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the heavenly dome, full of quiet, shining stars, hung boundlessly. From the zenith…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs…
— Victor Hugo
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Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades; shoe makers hang out a gigantic shoe; jewelers a monster watch, and the dentist hangs…
— Daniel Webster
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The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
— Douglas Adams
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There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.
— Henry James
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… but you cant get all hung up on details when you are trying to survive…
— Sapphire
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we left about midnight and walked down the hill in silence. the night was muggy, and all around me i felt the same pressure, a…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all hung-up on the…
— Jack Kerouac
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Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damages morale and undermine the military are saboteurs and should be arrested, exiled, or hung
— Abraham Lincoln
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Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand…
— William Shakespeare
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When I went to college, I lived on campus, and the guys I hung out with made the characters in Revenge of the Nerds look…
— Dennis Miller
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O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul.
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys ought to be…
— Bess Streeter Aldrich
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All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung suspended a few feet above my head. I…
— Sylvia Plath
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I knowed a man in Paphlagonia who'd swallow a live snake every morning, when he got up. He used to say, he was certain of…
— Neil Gaiman
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She was the only doctor's wife in Branford, Maine, who hung her wash on an outdoor clothesline instead of putting it through a dryer, because…
— Lois Lowry
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Now seen...now gone, The butterfly flits in and out Through fence-hung flowers; But a life lived so close to them I envy...though it's here and…
— SaigyÅ
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I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the…
— Raymond Chandler
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He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it.
— Ayn Rand
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Mother, whose heart hung humble as a button the bright splendid shroud of your son, Do not weep. War is kind.
— Stephen Crane
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Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests…
— J. G. Ballard
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It has always seemed to me. ever since early childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, i was very near to a kingdom of ideal…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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