Outline Quotes
153 Outline quotes by 138 unique authors
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I was eleven when my father left, so neither of us really knew our fathers. I’d met mine of course, but then I only knew…
— Lloyd Jones
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In the beginning it was always the same. But. I kept trying. Then one day I accidentally moved as the shutter clicked. A shadow appeared.…
— Nicole Krauss
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The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked...
— Chuck Palahniuk
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When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed.
— Sarah Dessen
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When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not yet completed. All the standard features…
— Sarah Dessen
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I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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In my own worst seasons I've come back from the colorless world of despair by forcing myself to look hard, for a long time, at…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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She was a beautiful woman." Gavner sighed, tracing the outline of one of the elephants. "She just had very bad taste in underwear …" "And…
— Darren Shan
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Wars make history seem deceptively simple. They provide clear turning points, easy distinctions.: before and after, winner and loser, right and wrong. True history, the…
— Kate Morton
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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very…
— Albert Camus
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She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn.
— John Green
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Until then I had lived as I had painted and versified - that is, I never got far beyond priming canvas, beyond penning an outline,…
— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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Okay. Now you have to move your arms and legs.” “I know how to make a snow angel.” “Then do it! Otherwise, you’re more like…
— Richelle Mead
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When it came time for me to give my talk on the subject, I started off by drawing an outline of the cat and began…
— Richard P. Feynman
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I would not be you for a kingdom.' The remark was too naïve to rouse anger; I merely said - 'Very good.' 'And what would…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an…
— M. John Harrison
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There was hope in him, and soon perhaps the outline of his journey would take form.
— Carson McCullers
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Bones,” I sighed. “Know something? I’m not afraid of you, but you scare me….” His outline blurred again. “You scare me, too, Kitten,” he might…
— Jeaniene Frost
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I told Augustus the broad outline of my miracle: diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer when I was thirteen. (I didn’t tell him that the…
— John Green
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No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide is…
— Louis L'Amour
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If I had two lives, in one life I could invite her to stay at my place, and in the second life I could kick…
— Milan Kundera
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For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness…
— Leslie Marmon Silko
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I've been told that people in the army do more by 7:00 am than I do in an entire day But if I wake at…
— Shane Koyczan
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She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors…
— Kate Morton
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She'd cried over a broken heart before. She knew what that felt like, and it didn't feel like this. Her heart felt not so much…
— Ann Brashares
Who Wrote These Outline Quotes
138 authors contributed a total of 153 Outline Quotes, led by these top contributors: