Roughly Quotes

178 quotes by 167 authors

What are you looking at, foreigner?â€ the guard demanded roughly. The smile was a little unsettling. A prisoner shouldnâ€™t smile at his captors like that.… — John Flanagan
It is better to be roughly right than precisely wrong. — John Maynard Keynes
(Ash used his powers to lift Zarek from the floor and pin him roughly against the ceiling.) Stop pushing your luck, boy. Iâ€™ve had it… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Vonnegut's war was necessary. And yet it was massacre and screaming and confusion and blood and death. It was the mammoth projection outward of the… — George Saunders
We didn't stow away!" Dan protested. "You sunk our boat and pulled us out of the canal!" "Good point," Ian agreed. "Return them to the… — Gordon Korman
I made it," you said, gruffly, "for you." You shoved it onto my finger. It was roughly carved, shaped from a lump of something colourful… — Lucy Christopher
Toska - noun /ËˆtÅ-skÉ™/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. "No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At… — Vladimir Nabokov
Myrnin came in from the back room, carrying a load of books, which he dropped with a loud bang on the floor to glare at… — Rachel Caine
I took his hand, and suddely he yanked meâ€•too roughlyâ€•right off the bed so that I thudded against his chest. "Just in case," he muttered… — Stephenie Meyer
She would try to relieve the pain of love by first roughly rubbing her dry lips against mine; then my darling would draw away with… — Vladimir Nabokov
I'm sorry," Butch croaked. "Oh God, I'm so sorry..." V put his arm out and curled it around the cop. Pulling the male close to… — J R Ward
Shrugging out of the damaged shirt, Jake said roughly, â€œI still dream about you.â€ â€œI have nightmares about you.â€ I dragged my T-shirt over my… — Josh Lanyon
The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, as far as they were concerned, most… — Ridley Pearson
The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may… — Anne Bronte
For those who've never experienced a sunrise in the rural midwest, it's roughly as soft and romantic as someone's abruptly hitting the lights in a… — David Foster Wallace
CHOW^TM contained spun, plaited, and woven protein molecules, capped and coded, carefully designed to be ignored by even the most ravenous digestive tract enzymes; no-cal… — Neil Gaiman
I looked from one to the other, and realized that Barrons and my dad were having one of those wordless conversations he and I have… — Karen Marie Moning
There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The amusement fled from Royce's face and with a groan he pulled her roughly against his chest, crushing her to him. "Jenny," he whispered hoarsely,… — Judith McNaught
So Haymitch, what do you think of the games have one hundred percent more competitors than usual?â€ asks Caesar. Haymitch shrugs. â€œI donâ€™t see that… — Suzanne Collins

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