Spikes Quotes

44 quotes by 41 authors

It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without it,we… — Chinua Achebe
He tapped one of the ivory spikes between his legs and said, 'There be as good a way to lose your manhood as ever I've… — Christopher Paolini
It seems to me that you need a lot of courage, or a lot of something, to enter into others, into other people. We all… — Martin Amis
Spring TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Divine was expansive, but religion was reductive. Religion attempted to reduce the Divine to a knowable quantity with which mortals might efficiently deal, to… — Tom Robbins
Every other person in the world would have looked at it and thought, Max would hate this. It was girly. It was beautiful. It wasn't… — James Patterson
WEATHERS This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly; And the little brown… — Thomas Hardy
Your spikes have gone floppy, — Darren Shan
Spikes, " he sighed. "Heads. Walls. — George R. R. Martin
[He] saw that a peculiar expression had come into his nephew's face; an expression a little like that of a young hindu fakir who having… — P.G. Wodehouse
Even the trip throught the Portal had not disarranged Magnus's hair spikes. He tugged on one proudly. "Check it out", he said to Isabelle. "Magic?"… — Cassandra Clare
Ben yanked Hi sideways as spikes snapped from the wallâ€¦Once again, only Benâ€™s reflexes had saved him. â€œPlease stop doing that!â€ Ben barked. â€œPlease keep… — Kathy Reichs
Your spikes, which were really quite long then, would catch the material of the track and your shoe would get heavier. I was simply filing… — Roger Bannister
In a tradition second in wonderful absurdity only to 60-year-old baseball managers wearing uniforms and spikes in the dugout, golf spectators come dressed ready to… — Willie Geist
When people think of me, they think about me knocking catchers down and knocking second basemen down and yelling at pitchers. But when I took… — Pete Rose
Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny. — Nancy Gibbs
I still think that we have a hesitance to talk about things racial. And I think we do it at our detriment. We go from… — Eric Holder
While some debate its helpfulness at generating monetizable traffic, when Digg points to a story, huge audience spikes quickly follow. — Kara Swisher
You can get some spiked up greens even with no metal spikes, it just depends. — Bernhard Langer
It is proper that the federal government help alleviate short-term disruptions and price spikes such as those brought about by Hurricane Katrina. — Mel Martinez

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