Sliver Quotes

38 quotes by 36 authors

Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine. — Geraldine Brooks
I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly,… — Hazel Ying Lee
To pull the metal splinter from my palm my father recited a story in a low voice. I watched his lovely face and not the… — Li-Young Lee
But however you might rebel, there was no shedding them. They were your responsibility and there was no one to relieve you of them. They… — Wallace Stegner
My highest achievement: never shutting my heart down. Even in my darkest moments - through sexual abuse, a pregnancy at 14, lies and betrayals -… — Oprah Winfrey
Wolf in White Van is beautiful, enigmatic, and sad, and like every other brilliant thing John Darnielle has ever done, it seems to come from… — J. Robert Lennon
Because of media hype and woefully inadequate information, too many people nowadays are deathly afraid of their food, and what does fear of food do… — Julia Child
A virulent, aggressive minority has decided that Americans don't know themselves what it is they should see, and need to be protected by people who… — Jock Sturges
God was something I did not understand the way kids who went to church did. They said God was a man in the sky with… — Melissa Coleman
Everyone [in higher education] was what I call drillers of deeper wells. These academics sit at the bottom of a deep well and they look… — Vaclav Smil
You'll understand, I'm sure that I'm chasing the merest sliver of color. It's my own fault. I want to grasp the intangible. It's terrible how… — Claude Monet
Credit or debit cards, for starters, are nothing short of shoppers' Novocain. Even in the age of digital purchases and virtual money, we still attach… — Jeffrey Kluger
A short story is a shard, a sliver, a vignette. It's a biopsy on the human condition but it doesn't have this capacity to think… — Will Self
Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that… — Ayelet Waldman
I had forgotten that, and so many things. How could I put everything down on paper? It seemed impossible. No matter what, the majority of… — Dave Eggers
To exist in this vast universe for a speck of time is the great gift of life. Our tiny sliver of time is our gift… — Terry Goodkind
Beetee is still messing round the tree, doing I don't know what. At one point he snaps off a sliver of bark, joins us, and… — Suzanne Collins
It is one thing to be a man's wife - quite another to be the mother of his children. In fact, once you become a… — Kelly Corrigan
You I expected better of." He turned his swirling sliver gaze from Sam to Dev and Fang. "You two not so much." -Acheron — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder sliver of your life… — Adrian Tan

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