Quarters Quotes

540 Quarters quotes by 488 unique authors

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
I just know there's an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones. — Fannie Flagg
We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth. — John Lubbock
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
The monstropolous beast had left his bed. The two hundred miles a hour wind had loosed his chains. He seized hold of his dikes and… — Zora Neale Hurston
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
[...] He didn't want his wife to read historical romances because it might give her unrealistic expectations. [...] If I had been him, I would… — Catherine Anderson
We constantly see surveys that reveal this ignorance, especially among our high school students,78 percent of whom, in a recent nationwide multiple-choice test, identified Abraham… — Dave Barry
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
...There's a lot of money in the Western diet. The more you process any food, the more profitable it becomes. The healthcare industry makes more… — Michael Pollan
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
Zia turned toward us, her expression grim. “I will show you to your quarters. In the morning, your testing begins. We will see what magic… — Rick Riordan
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
[C]ontinence is a very important part of yoga. If a handful of people come forward with strong wills, nothing is impossible. One Buddha changed half… — Swami Satchidananda
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
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
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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488 authors contributed a total of 540 Quarters Quotes, led by these top contributors: