Rivers Quotes

1778 Rivers quotes by 1144 unique authors

See, my idea of cute comes with an IQ requirement. It's geeky cute. It's Rivers Cuomo, not Justin Timberlake. It's Gideon Yago, not Brian Mcfayden.… — Megan McCafferty
The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense. — Aldous Huxley
If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with… — Adrienne Rich
Far below ran the silver ribbon of the East River, braceleted by shining bridges, flecked by boats as small as flyspecks, splitting the shining banks… — Cassandra Clare
Raven has lost deeply, again and again, and she, too, has buried herself. There are pieces of her scattered all over. Her heart is nestled… — Lauren Oliver
A river of images and thoughts and feelings, dirtied and polluted so that no one could drink from it without gagging. — Barry Lyga
The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver - over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted vegetation… — Joseph Conrad
I am slowly, painfully discovering that my refuge is not found in my mother, my grandmother, of even the birds of Bear River. My refuge… — Terry Tempest Williams
But just as the river is always at the door, so is the world always outside. And it is in the world that we have… — Lian Hearn
Which brings me to the question of why we always 'fall' in love. One falls down steps, off ladders, into rivers and down mountains. If… — Judith McNaught
Everybody gets jolted. You, me, before we die we’ll all get nailed, lots of times. But that doesn’t mean we’ll get turned into witches. You… — David James Duncan
Find something useful to do with your morning,' she thought to him as she neared her chambers. 'Do something heroic in front of an audience.… — Kristin Cashore
He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the… — E. M. Forster
Suddenly his expression turned to alarm. He sprinted toward us. For a moment I had an absurd vision of myself on the cover of one… — Rick Riordan
I am going to sit here in the river. If you go home to sleep, I will sleep in front of your house. And if… — Paulo Coelho
It had nothing to do with gear or footwear or the backpacking fads or philosophies of any particular era or even with getting from point… — Cheryl Strayed
I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on, The windows and the stars illumined, one by one, The rivers of dark… — Charles Baudelaire
We children sat transfixed before that moon our mother had called forth from the waters. When the moon had reached its deepest silver, my sister,… — Pat Conroy
I should have known the power-hungry slave drivers at River's Edge would see my five days of freedom only as a challenge to be filled. — Cate Tiernan
They will say I smoked cigarettes and marijuana, cursed hoarse as a crow in all my languages, and loved morphine and Demerol and tequila and… — Kate Braverman
Why does everybody throw every troublesome thing into the river? — Kristin Cashore
Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see… — Fernando Pessoa
Shamefully, all of us have wanted revenge on someone at some point for something. I've lived since before man and buffalo roamed this small planet.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Freedom comes when you see the built-in contradiction of trying to manipulate something that is going right to begin with.... Stop trying to steer the… — Deepak Chopra
i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side. — David Levithan

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