Propped Quotes

37 quotes by 35 authors

Houses were knocked down... enormous heaps of earth and clay thrown up; buildings that were undermined and shaking, propped up by great beams of wood...… — Charles Dickens
My ex-wife was trying to be nice once, so she took me to a concert in Los Angeles. I went with her to Symphony Hall,… — B B King
In our current society, it is considered a weakness to be female and a treason to protest this. Highlighting inequality results in aggressive insults and… — Clementine Ford
Relativity propped it up, at least gave it the illusion of being thereâ€¦the way all reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity.… — Joe Haldeman
What in fact takes place in an election is that two hand picked candidates are propped up before the citizenry, each candidate having been selected… — Robert Ringer
In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get to the plot,… — Gary Shteyngart
I get a message from my dad. In the mood I'm in, I tear up to see his name in my inbox, and imagine him… — Sara Zarr
When Goya was 80 he drew an ancient man propped on two sticks, with a great mass of white hair and beard all over his… — Simone de Beauvoir
But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow. — Billy Collins
The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block? — B.K.S. Iyengar
Men were only made into 'men' with great difficulty even in primitive society: the male is not naturally 'a man' any more than the woman.… — Wyndham Lewis
...a pie so delicate, so luscious, that I hope to be propped up on my dying bed and fed a generous portion. Then I think… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
It doesn't benefit me to lie to people. They're eventually going to find out the truth, and then where am I? That's the problem with… — Rush Limbaugh
What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV… — Brooke Shields
I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an… — C.S. Lewis
I took her into bed with me and propped myself up with pillows against the headboard to let her nurse. As she nursed and the… — Wendell Berry
2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses die and… — Charles Bukowski
She fell asleep, leaning on his chest, and he edged her a little off a particularly painful bruise, leaned his head back against the tree… — Robin McKinley
So Henry," Puck said as he kicked off his shoes and propped his smelly feet on the kitchen table. "I was wondering what you can… — Michael Buckley
Rule number one of anime," Simon said. He sat propped up against a pile of pillows at the foot of his bed, a bag of… — Cassandra Clare

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