Sharp Quotes

863 quotes by 710 authors

A man bumps me on his busy way without so much as an apology. But that is all right. I forgive you, busy man about… — Libba Bray
The hook-nosed teacher looked past Quirrellâ€™s turban straight into Harryâ€™s eyes â€” and a sharp, hot pain shot across the scar on Harryâ€™s forehead. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Yes, Iâ€™m a mouse. Squeak, squeak. Now shoo-shoo back to your little bug friends,â€ said Rirped, picking up a hunk of dried beef. He tore… — Suzanne Collins
It's good to be a little frightened. It's good to respect your opponent. It keeps you sharp. In the fight game, the head rules the… — Bryce Courtenay
Why are we so attached to the severities of the past? Why are we so proud of having endured our fathers and our mothers, the… — Hilary Mantel
But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel â€” independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic. — David Nicholls
We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they… — Robert Fulghum
All right," he said. "Since you ask so nicely." "I wasn't asking." "I'm aware of that. The sharp point in my back did make it… — Rachel Caine
Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that furnace… — Elizabeth Gaskell
Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four oâ€™clock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness. Once or twice… — David Nicholls
I don't know many rules to live by,' he'd said. 'But here's one. It's simple. Don't put anything unnecessary into yourself. No poisons or chemicals,… — Laini Taylor
I'm underrealized," Lula said. "I gotta lot of untapped potential. Yesterday my horoscope said I gotta expand my horizons." "You expand any more in that… — Janet Evanovich
Sword, I name thee Brisingr! And with a sound of rushing wind the blade burst into flame, an envelope of sapphire-blue fire writhing about the… — Christopher Paolini
Oh Lion in a peculiar guise, Sharp Roman road to Paradise, Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll With all my flesh, and keep… — Stevie Smith
Heartache, Daphne eventually learned, never really went away; it just dulled. The sharp, stabbing pain that one felt with each breath eventually gave way to… — Julia Quinn
Be careful you don't cut yourself. The edges are sharp enough to shave with.' 'Girls don't shave', Arya said. 'Maybe they should. Have you ever… — George R. R. Martin
His finger flicked open a button on my cardigan-then two, three, four. It tumbled off my shoulders, leaving me in my camisole. He pushed up… — Becca Fitzpatrick
It gave me a sharp kind of sadness to think that no matter how much I loved him and tried to put him back together… — Paula McLain
It makes me happier, more secure, to think that I do not have to plan and manage everything for myself, that I am only a… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
All are keeping a sharp look-out in front, but none suspects that the danger may be creeping up from behind. — James M. Barrie

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