Looming Quotes
49 Looming quotes by 47 unique authors
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Any job ends up with stress, and certainly there's always a deadline looming when you work in TV. It's sort of constant.
— Dan Povenmire
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I think about death a lot, like I think we all do. I don't think of suicide as an option, but as fun. It's an…
— Ryan Gosling
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The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health - is…
— Lawrence M. Krauss
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The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.
— Camille Paglia
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This debt crisis coming to our country. The wall and tidal wave of debt that is befalling our nation. Medicare and Social Security go bankrupt…
— Paul Ryan
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Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis…
— George Will
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The idea occurred to him when he was twenty. At first it was only a vague idea, a question looming — what should I do?…
— Georges Perec
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The Revolutionary Hill Estates had not been designed to accommodate a tragedy. Even at night, as if on purpose, the development held no looming shadows…
— Richard Yates
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So here I am. Twenty-eight years old, with thirty looming on the horizon. Drunk. Fat. Alone. Unloved. And, worst of all, a cliche, Ally McBeal…
— Jennifer Weiner
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He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it. It was like living with an elephant. His room…
— Nicole Krauss
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What a wonderful song, she thought-everything was wonderful tonight, most of all this romantic scene in the den with their hands clinging and the inevitable…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The two dozen commonplace childhood photographs - snowsuit, pony, tennis racket, looming fender of a Dodge - were an inexhaustible source of wonder for him,…
— Michael Chabon
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And let's just be honest, there is no such place called 'justice,' if by that we envision a finish line, or a point at which…
— Tim Wise
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It’s a curse, really,” Lady Danbury said. “I’m the only person I know my age who has perfect hearing.” “Most would call that a blessing.”…
— Julia Quinn
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When the news you don't want to hear is looming before you like Everest, two things can happen. Tragedy can run you through like a…
— Jodi Picoult
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There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.
— David Eagleman
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There were signs. Probably more of them than I ever caught, even after the fact. But I missed them all. Maybe because I wasn’t looking…
— Gayle Forman
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She didn't say a work, and I gave up trying, because you couldn't hear either one of us over the shattering noise of hearts breaking…
— Kami Garcia
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I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.
— Jason Isbell
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Women can drive progress towards the central goals of mine action, which aims to increase security, rebuild communities, reclaim land and end the looming fear…
— Ban Ki-moon
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Climate change is destroying our path to sustainability. Ours is a world of looming challenges and increasingly limited resources. Sustainable development offers the best chance…
— Ban Ki-moon
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The seven letter word that spells horror for most families.The taboo word that no one would want to talk about and yet in most marriages…
— Superman
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Let's leave no words unspoken And save regrets for the broken. Will you even look back when you think of me? All I want is…
— A Day To Remember
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Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom-love-happiness.
— Charles Bukowski
Who Wrote These Looming Quotes
47 authors contributed a total of 49 Looming Quotes, led by these top contributors: