Sank Quotes
114 Sank quotes by 98 unique authors
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...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
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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
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Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.
— William Butler Yeats
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You took a pretty picture and you smashed it into bits, sank me into blackness and you sealed it with a kiss.
— Madonna Ciccone
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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
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Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.
— Robert Cray
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[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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Sank Quotes
98 authors contributed a total of 114 Sank Quotes, led by these top contributors: