Quarter Quotes

439 Quarter quotes by 391 unique authors

Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter? — Steven Wright
If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions… — Tom Robbins
I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before, containing… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of a century of… — Haven Kimmel
Learning to let go of expectations is a ticket to peace. It allows us to ride over every crisis—small or large, brother-in-law or end-of-quarter office… — Martha Beck
As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon smoking opium in… — William S. Burroughs
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy… — Jack London
Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle.… — Ambrose Bierce
works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which lets them drift… — Rebecca West
A black cat among roses, phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon, the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still. It… — Amy Lowell
Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter? — Thomas Hardy
Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests… — J. G. Ballard
Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an… — Barbara Kingsolver
By the way, did you fellows know that a hummingbird weighs as much as a quarter? Do you think a hummingbird also weighs the same… — Calvin Trillin
And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Talk—half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on porcelain. The muffled,… — Anais Nin
You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly by, tossing a… — Dave Eggers
To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book — William Saroyan
You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like… — Rick Bragg
We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a… — Elie Wiesel
Was I ignorant, then, when I was seventeen? I think not. I knew everything. A quarter-century's experience of life since then has added nothing to… — Yukio Mishima
When I was at school my jography told me th' earth was shaped like a orange an' I found out before I was ten that… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
I stared up at the ebbing quarter moon and the stars scattered like a handful of salt across the faraway sky... — Billy Collins
My dad was never one of those dads you could ask for a quarter if you saw a gumball machine. Instead he had one of… — S.A. Bodeen
You like rock? Little boy, I’m not your friend. I’m not your Dark-Hunter and I’m not your friggin’ date. You only speak to me when… — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Who Wrote These Quarter Quotes

391 authors contributed a total of 439 Quarter Quotes, led by these top contributors: