Scattered Quotes

273 Scattered quotes by 245 unique authors

The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is… — Daniel Quinn
And I will now rock the brown basin from side to side so that my ships may ride the waves. Some will founder. Some will… — Virginia Woolf
Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos… — Saul Bellow
If you find a way to write with open heart to Diary, a friend with Truth, no detail spared, your tome like Petrarchâ€™s works will… — Robin Maxwell
That afternoon the sky was scattered with black clouds galloping in from the sea and clustering over the city. Flashes of lightening echoed on the… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A monkey was carrying two handfuls of peas. One little pea dropped out. He tried to pick it up, and split twenty. He tried to… — Leo Tolstoy
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Maybe some things are better left broken and scattered Veiled in darkness, secret bitterness and self-doubt I should have known better Than to start something… — Henry Rollins
...When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's like a fire you've tended… — Kevin Brockmeier
I want to tell him that it's just a stupid car, but bits of me are scattered all over town; the graveyard, school, Cassie's room,… — Laurie Halse Anderson
I'm all over the place, up and down, scattered, withdrawing, trying to find some elusive sense of serenity." The world can't give that serenity. The… — Anne Lamott
We got half the doggone MIT college of engineering here, and nobody who can fix a doggone /television/?" Dr. Joseph Abernathy glared accusingly at the… — Diana Gabaldon
But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more… — Marcel Proust
It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the product… — George Orwell
I love all things, not because they are passionate or sweet-smelling but because, I don't know, because this ocean is yours, and mine: these buttons… — Pablo Neruda
I stared up at the ebbing quarter moon and the stars scattered like a handful of salt across the faraway sky... — Billy Collins
Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him… — Nikolai Gogol
I feel like my life is so scattered right now. Like it's all the small pieces of paper and someone's turned on the fan. But,… — John Green
In this family, we always celebrate each other's birthdays. I don't care if you're four or fourteen or forty and scattered around the world. We… — James Patterson
Clothes were scattered across the floor in piles, a duffel bag open on the floor as if it had exploded. Isabelle's bright silver-gold whip hung… — Cassandra Clare

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