Sink Quotes

647 Sink quotes by 523 unique authors

Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you… — Italo Calvino
What he wanted was not just to hear about Hailsham, but to remember Hailsham, just like it had been his own childhood. He knew he… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Okay, so if that's not real, what is? What counts, to you?" He thought for a second, then said, "I don't know. Just because someone's… — Sarah Dessen
It's first owner...well, things didn't turn out too well for her. Her name was Helena.' Piper let that sink in. "Wait, you mean the Helena?… — Rick Riordan
I was feeling safe. Not the kind of safe where you know there are still bad things howling outside the door waiting to get in.… — Lilith Saintcrow
Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and… — William Shakespeare
Did he show himself?” Nash asked, and I glanced to my right to see him staring at my father, as fascinated as I was. My… — Rachel Vincent
The elevator shaft was a kind of heat sink. Hot food was cold by the time it arrived. Cold food got colder. No one knew… — Terry Pratchett
Aim high, aim at the highest, and all lower aims are thereby achieved. It is looking below on the stormy sea of differences that makes… — Ramana Maharshi
Why do we wrap things? Usually to protect them. The more fragile they are, the more important the wrapping. Your dream is prey to many… — Jerry Spinelli
When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine, his scowl a… — Rachel Vincent
I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing… — Virginia Woolf
She yanked my plate away and took it to the sink. She rinsed some bones that looked like pork shoulder, which was weird since we'd… — Margaret Stohl
wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into darkness and dissolve. Her eyes looking back do not reflect anything.… — Amy Tan
He taught me there's a place on a man's back where, if you sink a blade in, you can pierce his heart and sever his… — Cassandra Clare
Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace. — Farley Mowat
Alec watched them through the half-open door, Jace leaned against the sink as his adoptive sister sponged his wrists and wrapped them in a white… — Cassandra Clare
I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become… — Hermann Hesse
The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep, no matter, it… — Truman Capote
If you don't want to sink, you better figure out how to swim — Jeannette Walls
Haruhi: This story has everything but the kitchen sink in it. — Bisco Hatori
I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the… — Ann Voskamp
Get rid of their mast, knock holes in the hull, then get back on board." "You want us to sink her?" Gundar asked, and Halt… — John Flanagan
Shadow and dust shall be reclaimed, earth sealing the tomb from which you came. Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, warrior return, breathe your last.… — Christine Feehan
Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower. — Anthony Trollope

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