Leaned Quotes
305 quotes by 169 authors
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I set my toothbrush down, then leaned into the mirror and stared into my own eyes. I could feel myself disintegrating inside myself like a…
— Cheryl Strayed
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He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car.
— Abraham Zapruder
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I think, she began quietly, I think we want... not just bread for our bellies. We want more than only bread. We want food for…
— Katherine Paterson
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The sun rose yellow as a lemon.The sky was round and blue.The birds looped clear water songs in the air.Will and Jim leaned from their…
— Ray Bradbury
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Smoke says the beef is much better than the squawky white birds. Her expression changed from annoyed to dismayed. Squawky white birds? Chickens? You ate…
— Anne Bishop
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Dad says Specter gets steak every Saturday night for the rest of his life.""Specter will hold him to that, I'm sure." Diana leaned back against…
— Jayne Ann Krentz
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Well I took her over to a soda fountain over on Bo's She had an Ice Cream Sundae and a hot cup of Jo She…
— Gene Vincent
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No lifetime is a loss if you've leaned something, because that learning stays with you. There is no such thing as a wasted life, if…
— Frederick Lenz
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This man's wife told him, "For Christmas, surprise me." On Christmas Eve he leaned over where she was sleeping and said, "Boo!"
— Milton Berle
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I've always leaned toward a feminine, funky style, even in business settings. I used to paint my nails blue in 1993, before it was mainstream.
— Sara Blakely
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The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in the…
— Gilbert Parker
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In the 1998 Oscars, I found myself in the bathroom in a stall, next to Tom Selleck. So I leaned over and I said 'looks…
— Tom Hanks
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My godchild Zoe, age 6, suddenly said: "Can you describe what romance is?" I talked about wooing, and yearning, and she sighed and leaned back,…
— Sark
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Broke my femur on a cruise with my wife in Italy. I'd walked back to my cabin after dinner with half a plate of spaghetti…
— Art Donovan
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And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and when you felt me slip away, you called my…
— Orson Scott Card
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In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in his cosmic loneliness. And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of…
— John Irving
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You could say that Elphaba brought us together,' said Boq softly. 'I'm closer to her and so I'm closer to you.' Galinda seemed to give…
— Gregory Maguire
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Fang’s hand gently smoothed my hair off my neck. My breath froze in my chest, and every sense seemed hyperalert. His hand stroked my hair…
— James Patterson
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But he stays by the window, remembering that life. They had laughed. They had leaned on each other and laughed until the tears had come,…
— Raymond Carver
Who Wrote These Leaned Quotes
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