Solid Quotes

974 quotes by 815 authors

Fantasy is like jam. . . . You have to spread it on a solid piece of bread. If not, it remains a shapeless thing… — Italo Calvino
Let me tell you something, Mari. The ground we stand on looks solid enough, but if something happens it can drop right out from under… — Haruki Murakami
He is solid; immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see… — John Fowles
To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one… — Christopher Hitchens
And then I saw him and nothing was ever the same again. The sky was never the same colour, the moon never the same shape:… — Stephen Fry
She was my sacred angel that I could never violate. Reira was my sanctuary. I needed something solid like that in this dirty, disappointing world. — Ai Yazawa
But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority — Ray Bradbury
The flash would prove that proton decay really happens. The flash would mean that the matter of the proton - the solid stuff - had… — Jerry Spinelli
Happiness," said he, "must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty. — Samuel Johnson
It doesnâ€™t matter how many years go by, how much therapy I embark on, how much I try to achieve that elusive thing known as… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness. And real love--it's less shiny than solid and simple. — Deb Caletti
[Biblical counseling] Must insist that the image of God is central to developing a solid view of personality; that our sinfulness, not how we've been… — Dan B. Allender
Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid! — Bill Watterson
When we reached the beach, Leif fell to his knees with a dramatic cry. "Solid ground! I'll never take you for granted again." "Are you… — Maria V. Snyder
There rolls the deep where grew the tree. O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
He felt warm and familiar. He felt solid and safe. I wanted to cling to his shirt, bury my face into the warm curve of… — Becca Fitzpatrick
Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The end. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of stasis. A pinprick… — Margaret Atwood
Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you… — Marilynne Robinson
Indeed, I cannot think why the whole bed of the ocean is not one solid mass of oysters, so prolific the creatures seem. Ah, I… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Now the mountains were getting that pink tinge, I mean the rocks, they were just solid rock covered with the atoms of dust accumulated there… — Jack Kerouac

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