Quarter Quotes
439 Quarter quotes by 391 unique authors
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Forgive me for speaking frankly, but after the past quarter-hour's conversation, I am unconvinced that any of you possess the sense or sensitivity to impart…
— Tessa Dare
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The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long…
— Polly Horvath
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Finnick?" I say, "Maybe some pants?" He looks down at his legs as if noticing his outfit for the first time. Then he whips off…
— Suzanne Collins
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Well...he's back in an exam room. Should I get out a quarter?" Everybody groaned. There was only one He out of the legions of male…
— J R Ward
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People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect.
— Colum McCann
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A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When you want genuine music -- music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go…
— Mark Twain
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You took a quarter century off my age with that kidnapping stunt. No more going off with a strange men, hear me? -"You're a strange…
— Cherry Adair
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Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.
— Don DeLillo
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They were not half living, or quarter living. They were simply so many bags of bones in which sparks of life fluttered faintly.
— Jack London
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A vegetarian? Are you insane? That's worse than bein' a quarter demon!
— Kami Garcia
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And yet day and night meet fleetingly at twilight and dawn," he said, lowering his voice again and narrowing his eyes and moving his head…
— Mary Balogh
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I didn’t say, You are such a stuffy asshole. And he didn’t say, If you ever burn one of my quarter-of-a-million dollar rugs again I’ll…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai [carry] the half-truth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.
— Robert Jordan
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Sometimes just to paint a head you have to give up the whole figure. To paint a leaf, you have to sacrifice the whole landscape.…
— Nicole Krauss
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Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have…
— Mark Twain
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We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.
— Ernest Cline
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It took me a moment. I blinked, and suddenly it swam into focus and I had to frown very hard to keep myself from giggling…
— Jeff Lindsay
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I was depressed, but that was a side issue. This was more like closing up shop, or, say, having a big garage sale, where you…
— Jane Smiley
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Individually the disciple and friend of Jesus who has learned to work shoulder to shoulder with his or her Lord stands in this world as…
— Dallas Willard
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Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground – I screamed and instantly ran mad. We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses, some minutes, and…
— Jane Austen
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In my opinion, if 100% of the people were farming it would be ideal. If each person were given one quarter-acre, that is 1 1/4…
— Masanobu Fukuoka
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But in school I remember hearing that for the second Quarter Quell, the Capitol demanded that twice the number of tributes be provided for the…
— Suzanne Collins
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The way she kissed you in the Quarter Quell…well she never kissed me like that…I should have volunteered to take your place in the first…
— Suzanne Collins
Who Wrote These Quarter Quotes
391 authors contributed a total of 439 Quarter Quotes, led by these top contributors: