Nailed Quotes
121 Nailed quotes by 111 unique authors
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I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse. "Right you are, sir!" said the sergeant. "Carborundum! First man comes through that door runnin', I want…
— Terry Pratchett
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The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past,…
— Harlan Ellison
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Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's…
— Hermann Hesse
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This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a…
— Graham Chapman
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And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to…
— Douglas Adams
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The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The…
— Brennan Manning
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The hard rain nailed the night to the city.
— Dean Koontz
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On the dashboard of our family car is a shallow indentation about the size of a paperback book. If you are looking for somewhere to…
— Bill Bryson
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You surely can't be trying to blame us for Erak's habit of charging ashore waving an axe and grabbing everything that isn't nailed down? No…
— John Flanagan
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Blasts from the past were like the rooms one entered and re-entered in dreams: they would not stay nailed down. When you returned to them,…
— Lorrie Moore
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It’s true, and I was really hideous as a preteen. Tall and gawky. I used to bump my head into everything. Still do sometimes. (Kat)…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Summer came. For the book thief, everything was going nicely. For me, the sky was the color of Jews. When their bodies had finished scouring…
— Markus Zusak
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What you fear your whole life comes to pass. You end up living toward it, you spend your life running from it but your foot…
— Nick Flynn
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The thief, as will become apparent, was a special type of thief. This thief was an artist of theft. Other thieves merely stole everything that…
— Terry Pratchett
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If you married me,it would be scandalous and innapropriate, and doors would be closed to you." "Good God, woman, I let two of my sisters…
— Lisa Kleypas
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They hired us over the Internet, mailed us half the cash and promised the other half after we nailed the vampire." I lowered Grief until…
— Jennifer Rardin
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Everybody gets jolted. You, me, before we die we’ll all get nailed, lots of times. But that doesn’t mean we’ll get turned into witches. You…
— David James Duncan
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Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.
— Ann Voskamp
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If Jesus had been a hunchback, they could hardly have nailed him to the cross.
— Gunter Grass
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We took a right at the fork, heading farther north. The charred houses continued. To the right, a large sign nailed to an old telephone…
— Ilona Andrews
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...the other half of rising—the very half that makes rising necessary—is having been nailed to the cross.
— Cheryl Strayed
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I've tried to move [the sidhe-seers] during times of peace and quiet and had the luck of a broken mirror nailed beneath an upside-down horseshoe…
— Karen Marie Moning
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One of them had a large wooden sign nailed to its door proclaiming, NO SYMPATHY! I wondered what non-arcane visitors might think of the warning.
— Patrick Rothfuss
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Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right…
— Brandon Sanderson
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The only cross in all of history that was turned into an altar was the cross on which Jesus Christ died. It was a Roman…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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