Marbles Quotes

47 quotes by 44 authors

On more than one occasion, the camera has cut to me after a break as I'm still trying to swallow the last bite of cookie.… — Lester Holt
I can remember the lush spring excitement of language in childhood. Sitting in church, rolling it around my mouth like marbles--tabernacle and pharisee and parable,… — Penelope Lively
I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man speaking with the… — Dylan Thomas
Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day… — John Greenleaf Whittier
Whether I played marbles, whether I played football or slam anything else, I wanted to excel. — Robert Mondavi
Once you realize that everyone is in the same boat, that everyone is just as insecure and childlike as everyone else, that all these jokers… — Conor Oberst
The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic… — Martin Filler
Most people are on the world, not in it-- having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them-- undiffused seporate, and rigidly alone like… — John Muir
Poor Kate,"said Constance,"she's lost her marbles. — Trenton Lee Stewart
All our land was enriched with my treasures buried in it, thickly inhabited just below the surface with my marbles and my teeth and my… — Shirley Jackson
Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important. — Sara Gruen
If there is a true measure of a person's soul, if there is a single gauge of real divinity, of how beautifully a fellow human… — Mark Morford
Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of lightâ€¦ I just want to be pure. — Jim Carroll
What if there were no grownups? Suppose the whole idea of grownups was an illusion? What if their money was really just playground marbles, their… — Stephen King
I've decided to call him Norbert,' said Hagrid, looking at the dragon with misty eyes. 'He really knows me now, watch. Norbert! Norbert! Where's Mummy?'… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school… — Mark Twain
The world values the seer above all men, and has always done so. Nay, it values all men in proportion as they partake of the… — John Jay Chapman
When I lose my marbles which is never, when I lose my energy, I travel the world today for Viacom, China, Turkey, Dubai, Kuwait. When… — Sumner Redstone
I have just one black and white photograph left of my mother when she was younger. She was 17 when it was taken and beautiful… — Liz Murray
When a hurricane thrashes the mid-Atlantic, my hilly town often reaps the fringe of the storm. The rain starts blowing sideways, and sometimes we see… — Diane Ackerman

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