Hung Quotes
515 Hung quotes by 447 unique authors
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The column hung above the middle of the pentacle, bubbling ever upward against the ceiling like the cloud of an erupting volcanoe. There was a…
— Jonathan Stroud
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Only then did I see. Something was amiss with Patrick's snap-on one piece, or "onesie" as we manly dads like to call it. His chubby…
— John Grogan
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There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful.
— Sue Monk Kidd
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...the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty…
— Anita Desai
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I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of the books would…
— John Wyndham
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I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the…
— Sylvia Plath
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Too many of us are hung up on what we don't have, can't have, or won't ever have. We spend too much energy being down,…
— Terry McMillan
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...but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured…
— James Agee
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I hung up the phone, jubilant, and threw myself into a wall, then pretended to be getting electrocuted. I do this when I'm very happy.
— Dave Eggers
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There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.
— Agatha Christie
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Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.
— Peter S. Beagle
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Vishous's chest expanded. . . and his diamond stare slowly swung to Butch. There was a heartbeat of intensity. Then V reached out and repositioned…
— J R Ward
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The first time I hung out with [David Blaine], he took me to this condemned building, and it had a pizza oven and he crawled…
— Harmony Korine
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We recived our colouring from the Norsemen,hairy savages who hacked their gods to pieces and hung the flesh from trees.We are the ones who sacked…
— Janet Fitch
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I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better than average at clever remarks,…
— Jeff Lindsay
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and the sad notes floated out to the patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly
— Hunter S. Thompson
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You couldn't make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the other person did. You had to just wait. Eventually the feeling went…
— Elizabeth Strout
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I thought you hung the moon.
— John Green
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As before the collapse, the setting sun brushed the tiles, brought out the warm brown glow on the wallpaper, and hung the shadow of the…
— Boris Pasternak
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Above all, she is the girl who 'feels' things, who has hung on to the freshness and pain of adolescence, the girl ever wounded, ever…
— Joan Didion
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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
— James Joyce
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He would have shaved the centaurs, dipped them in honey, covered them with feathers, and hung them up like a bunch of pinatas. I'm just…
— Brandon Mull
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As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement Were fields of harvest wheat. And down by the brimming…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for…
— Pearl S. Buck
Who Wrote These Hung Quotes
447 authors contributed a total of 515 Hung Quotes, led by these top contributors: