Pluck Quotes

126 quotes by 110 authors

I find the whole concept of being 'sexy' embarrassing and confusing. If I do a photo-shoot, people desperately want to change me - dye my… — Emma Watson
Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and… — William Butler Yeats
Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry. Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting. Petruchio: My remedy is then,… — William Shakespeare
I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe fore the warm hazel iris of her fluffy eyes, or… — Vladimir Nabokov
Even as a very young man, I knew that my family is like a plant. Uproot it, and it will wilt. Pluck away at it,… — Etgar Keret
Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not… — Robertson Davies
Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety. — William Shakespeare
If you were Queen of pleasure And I were King of pain We'd hunt down Love together, Pluck out his flying-feather, And teach his feet… — Algernon Charles Swinburne
I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying… — Audre Lorde
If you pluck out my heart To find what makes it move, Youâ€™ll halt the clock That syncopates our love. — Sylvia Plath
This hill though high I covent ascend; The difficulty will not me offend; For I perceive the way of life lies here. Come, pluck up,… — John Bunyan
Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen. — Alexandre Dumas
I donâ€™t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive… — Oscar Wilde
Alice! A childish story take, And with a gentile hand Lay it where Childhood dreams are twined In memory's mystic band, Like pilgrim's withered wreath… — Lewis Carroll
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Oâ€™er a plan to venge myself upon that cursed Thursday Next- This Eyre affair,… — Jasper Fforde
...the reader who plucks a book from her shelf only once is as deprived as the listener who, after attending a single performance of a… — Anne Fadiman
Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but… — Karl Marx
Child, that is why all the rest are now a horror to her. That is what happens to those who pluck and eat fruits at… — C.S. Lewis
Images flicker, each one bringing its own sorrow or its own smile. Sometimes both. At the very worst, an impenetrable and sightless black and at… — Pittacus Lore
I'll drown more sailors than the mermaid shall; I'll slay more gazers than the basalisks; I'll play the orator as well as Nestor, Decieve more… — William Shakespeare

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