Ran Quotes
1175 Ran quotes by 920 unique authors
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He thought that it was loneliness which he was trying to escape and not himself. But the street ran on: catlike, one place was the…
— William Faulkner
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On that same tour we ran into a band at Aylesbury Friars, a biggish venue in Oxfordshire, England. They were a four-piece from Ireland called…
— Craig Ferguson
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Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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As I became a creature of the empty tunnels, survival became easier and more difficult all at once. I gained in the physical skills and…
— R A Salvatore
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In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.
— Jim Butcher
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My chest ached, my body speaking a language my head didn't quite understand. I waited. But Grace, the only person in the world I wanted…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she…
— James M. Barrie
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Teasingly she took the apple from his mouth. Juice ran down his chin. Slowly, deliberately, she leaned over and licked the sweet juice from his…
— Terry Goodkind
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He also tried to block the doorway when she left him. My mother ducked under his arm, ran to her car, and drove away. I…
— Sloane Crosley
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Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of…
— Ivan Turgenev
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You need as much ballast as possible to stop you from floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like…
— Nick Hornby
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For John was running, and this was terrible. Because if you ran, time ran. You yelled and screamed and raced and rolled and tumbled and…
— Ray Bradbury
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Oh, God, help me! And I walked faster, my thoughts pursuing me, and I began to run, my frozen shoes squealing like mice, but running…
— John Fante
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I saw a huge steam roller, It blotted out the sun. The people all lay down, lay down; They did not try to run. My…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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The dog ran into the kitchen, stuck his nose in Grandma's crotch, and snuffled. Dang," Grandma said. "Guess my new perfume really works. I'm gonna…
— Janet Evanovich
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Through an arrow loop in the wall she saw a familiar horse and rider tearing across the camp toward the healing rooms. Brigan pulled up…
— Kristin Cashore
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Percy!” he bellowed. He dropped his broom and ran at me. If you’ve never been charged by an enthusiastic Cyclops wearing a flowered apron and…
— Rick Riordan
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Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren't dripping off. They spread out and…
— Albert Camus
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As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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I recall an August afternoon in Chicago in 1973 when I took my daughter, then seven, to see what Georgia O’Keeffe had done with where…
— Joan Didion
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Honey, I liked the Harry Potter movies, too, but that doesn’t mean I ran out and got a Dark Mark tattooed onto my left forearm…
— Jim Butcher
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You have something on your neck. What Looks like a bite mark, what were you doing out all night, anyway? Nothing. I went walking in…
— Cassandra Clare
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You'd think he'd ran out off rocks," I muttered
— Rick Riordan
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You will be getting a haircut, won't you?" Halt ran his hand through his hair. It was getting a little long, he thought. I'll give…
— John Flanagan
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When I left Merle was wearing a bungalow apron and rolling pie crust. She came to the door wiping her hands on the apron and…
— Raymond Chandler
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