Rolled Quotes
378 quotes by 273 authors
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McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled,
— Joseph McCarthy
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The fantasy never got beyond that—I didn’t let it—and though the tears rolled down my face, I wasn’t sobbing or out of control. I just…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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The waves have rolled upon me, the billows are repeatedly broken over me, yet I am not sunk down.
— Mercy Otis Warren
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This whole act's immutably decreed. 'Twas rehearsed by thee and me a billion years before this ocean rolled. Fool! I am the Fates' lieutenant; I…
— Herman Melville
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In Isleta the rainbow was a crack in the universe. We saw the barest of all life that is possible. Bright horses rolled over and…
— Joy Harjo
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We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters, so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood, placed a dandelion on…
— Malala Yousafzai
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Most of these people will never make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have rolled past and…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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He wore a white shirt with the sleeves rolled up to the good place, and a heart-shaped leaf lay trapped in the hollow if his…
— Elizabeth Berg
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You're blinded by lights and you see all these people who come out, and it's exciting. It's scary and it's exciting all rolled into one.
— Vanessa Kerry
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Out from the heart of Nature rolled The burdens of the Bible old.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I was out there with the White House press squad, and after his helicopter took off, and the carpet rolled up...This wasn't a photograph that…
— Annie Leibovitz
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The new rebels might be artists willing to risk the yawn, the rolled eyes, the cool smile, the nudged ribs, the parody of gifted ironists,…
— David Foster Wallace
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Both children and adults like me who live with type 1 diabetes need to be mathematicians, physicians, personal trainers, and dietitians all rolled into one,
— Mary Tyler Moore
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The sickness rolled through me in great waves. After each wave it would fade away and leave me limp as a wet leaf and shivering…
— Sylvia Plath
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Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places, Knowing that as long as…
— Gloria Naylor
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And that, I think, was the handle--that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense;…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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At last I saw Christ as my Saviour. I believed in Him and gave myself to Him. The burden rolled from off me, and a…
— George Muller
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In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment…
— Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
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The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding.
— Ariel Durant
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And this is how it started. Just with coffee and the exchange of their long stories. Love can be incremental. Predicaments, too. Coffee can start…
— Tayari Jones
Who Wrote These Rolled Quotes
273 authors contributed a total of 378 Rolled Quotes, led by these top contributors: