Match Quotes

1096 Match quotes by 843 unique authors

A few weeks later, I’m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. I’m sitting next to a guy… — A. J. Jacobs
Love: a burnt match skating in a urinal. — Hart Crane
It feels strange to me to be living in a box, hiding from the steadying influence of the moon; wearing the hide of a cow,… — Barbara Kingsolver
It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that… — Laura Esquivel
I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides… — Jonathan Safran Foer
And you're not leaving," she said. "Promise me." It was as if she had asked him to promise to keep breathing, to notice sunshine, to… — Sharon Shinn
Better to be a first-class matchbox than a second-class match. — Haruki Murakami
The strong are strengthened by reverses; the trouble is that the true meaning of events scores next to nothing in the match we play with… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
You wouldn't match Melanie and me up, and if we hadn't gotten stuck together as lab partners in junior high science, I doubt if we'd… — Deb Caletti
We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, “It is my will… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Pleasant things to hear, though hearing them from him embarrasses me. I soak up the praise but feel obliged to disparage the gift. I believe… — Wallace Stegner
I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into… — Jodi Picoult
The thinnest slice would be teeming with memories of a love so strong it turned you inside out and left you gasping, and would be… — Jodi Picoult
Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together, of quarrels and reconciliations and generous emotions. It is idle, having planted an… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The day after his father left, Franz and his mother went into town together, and as they left home Franz noticed that her shoes did… — Milan Kundera
Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own… — Wilkie Collins
I have seen Tasmanian devils battle over a carcass. I have seen lionesses crowding a kill, dingoes on the trail of a feral piglet, and… — Terri Irwin
But I can't confront the doubts I have. I can't admit that maybe the past was bad, and so, for the sake of momentum I'm… — Aimee Mann
Memories are like a still life painted by ten different student artists: some will be blue-based; others red; some will be as stark as Picasso… — Jodi Picoult
Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work… — Helen Keller
-The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other but to be with each other. -The Hopis consider running a form of prayer;… — Christopher McDougall
Remember, remember the Fifth of November, The Gunpowder Treason and Plot, I know of no reason Why the gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot. Guy… — Alan Moore
Some are nice and some aren't. Some are smart, and others are about as bright as a wet match in a dark cave. In other… — Lisa Kleypas
There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature… — John Steinbeck
Once I heard my mother say that each of us lives in a separate universe, one we have dreamed into being. We love pople when… — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

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