Sank Quotes

114 Sank quotes by 98 unique authors

...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it ever did was… — Vance Havner
Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side. — William Butler Yeats
You took a pretty picture and you smashed it into bits, sank me into blackness and you sealed it with a kiss. — Madonna Ciccone
Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip, loose lips, sank ships, it's a trip, I love the way she licks her lips. — Tupac Shakur
Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank. — Robert Cray
[It is hard to know what is good luck and what isn't and therefore whether we should be happy or sad about it. Only time… — Zelig Pliskin
Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from Sinai. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Rentals sank, living rose. I could not afford help. I must be owner, agent, landlady and janitor. I loathed landladying... I tried in every way… — Emily Carr
And when children begin to use their reason, fathers and mothers should take great pains to fill their hearts with the fear of God. This… — Saint Francis de Sales
She needed Cholly's sins desperately. The lower he sank, the wilder and more irresponsible he became, the more splendid she and her task became. In… — Jim Morrison
You never think you're on the verge of disaster while you're looking over the edge yourself. It's your friends and family who are trying to… — Johnny Depp
Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn't know fluffy. Everything sank. — Alan King
Karen wasn't hard, she was soft, too soft. A soft touch. Her hair was soft, her smile was soft, her voice was soft. She was… — Margaret Atwood
Am I tough? Am I strong? Am I hard-core? Absolutely. Did I whimper with pathetic delight when I sank my teeth into my hot fried-chicken… — James Patterson
Kings built tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names of their sons.… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf.… — Robert Frost
I sometimes used to ask myself, what on earth did I love her for? Maybe fore the warm hazel iris of her fluffy eyes, or… — Vladimir Nabokov
The more conscious I was of goodness and of all that was 'sublime and beautiful,'the more deeply I sank into my mire and the more… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf,… — Virginia Woolf
Still in my coat and hat, I sank onto the stair to read the letter. (I never read without making sure I am in a… — Diane Setterfield
He closed his eyes and sank into the warm dusk that separates consciosness and sleep, where reality bends and sways to the wind of thought,… — Christopher Paolini
There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength… — Ann Patchett
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the… — Joseph Conrad

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