Salt Quotes
542 Salt quotes by 462 unique authors
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some mornings... I sit at the kitchen table shaking salt into the hairs on my arm, and a feeling shoves up in me: it's finished.…
— Jennifer Egan
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Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil…
— A. E. Housman
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Juilin," she asked hesitantly, "what were you going to do with the salt and cooking oil? Not exactly," she added more quickly. "Just a general…
— Robert Jordan
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It (suicide) became a possibility like Maybe when I grow up, I will be dead. Life was a cake that looked good on the bakery…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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When the red star bleeds and the darkness gathers, Azor Ahai shall be born again amidst smoke and salt to wake dragons out of stone.
— George R. R. Martin
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A hundred years from now, people will look back on us and laugh. They'll say, 'You know what people used to believe? They believed in…
— Michael Crichton
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It is like the thirsty traveller who at first sincerely sought the water of knowledge, but who later, having found it plain perhaps, proceeded to…
— Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
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His fingers skimmed down her body, over skin and satin, and she shivered, leaning into him, and she was sure they both tasted like blood…
— Cassandra Clare
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With a resigned shrug, she screamed and collapsed into a faint. She stayed resolutely fainted, despite the liberal application of smelling salts, which made her…
— Gail Carriger
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It doesn't seem to matter what we think...The prince will come up here and look at us as if we're barrels in a trader's wagon.…
— Shannon Hale
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Just the other day the AP wire had a story about a man from Arkansas who entered some kind of contest and won a two-week…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.
— Truman Capote
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Poets are excellent students of blizzards and salt and broken statuary, but they are always elsewhere for the test. Any intention in the writing of…
— Dean Young
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Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.
— Frederick Buechner
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Answers to Frequently Asked Questions: Yes. Yes. No. One time in high school. Three times in my twenties. Rocks no salt. Yes. Four. Never. And…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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To my embarrassment, I was crying again. Real girl tears for the second time, these ones born out of frustration. That didn't happen to me…
— C.E. Murphy
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Water: 35 Liters. Carbon: 20 Kg. Ammonia: 4 Liters. Lime: 1.5 Kg. Phosphorus: 800 g. Salt: 250 g. Saltpeter: 100g. Sulfur: 80g. Fluorine: 7.5 g.…
— Hiromu Arakawa
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Are you a storyteller, Thomas Covenant?" Absently he replied, "I was, once." "And you gave it up? Ah, that is as sad a tale in…
— Stephen R. Donaldson
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I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain.
— Sylvia Plath
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Do you have a sleeping bag?” I stared at him. “No. I lost it in the great salt-dip of ’06.
— Kim Harrison
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There is such solace in the mere sight of water. It clothes us delicately in its blowing salt and scent, gossamer items that medicate the…
— Sebastian Barry
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I come from a family of screamers. If they are trying to express any emotion or idea beyond pass the salt, it comes in shrieks.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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On and on we seal the pages with salt water and promises to live well to make their deaths count.
— Suzanne Collins
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In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive to make their…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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...."we saw this big dark red leech hanging off his back. We were dancing round yelling: ‘We’ll burn it off! Get the petrol! Stay still…
— John Marsden
Who Wrote These Salt Quotes
462 authors contributed a total of 542 Salt Quotes, led by these top contributors: