Sprung Quotes
103 Sprung quotes by 93 unique authors
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When you delve deep enough, you find that practically every great fortune and great enterprise in America have sprung from the courageous enterprise of some…
— B. C. Forbes
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The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so…
— Charles Bukowski
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The great Vaishnava religion of India has also sprung from a Tamil Pariah - Shathakopa - "who was a dealer in winnowing-fans but was a…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Dog! When we first met on the highway of life, we came from the two poles of creation.... What can be the meaning of the…
— Anatole France
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Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple brochure! When one…
— Gaston Bachelard
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I was just working in the shop and all of a sudden something just triggered in me and I started shaking. And then I walked…
— Fred Allen
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When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung…
— Marcel Proust
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She was coming. I watched the slight figure grow out of the dusk between the trees, and the darkness in which I had walked of…
— Mary Johnston
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Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy…
— Sigmund Freud
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But the most horrible spot .... lies....immediately south west of Oxford Road and is known as Little Ireland. The race that lives in these ruinous…
— Friedrich Engels
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I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart,…
— Franz Liszt
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The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of…
— Mark Twain
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I am ready to talk today. I have been in a great many councils, but I am no wiser. We are all sprung from a…
— Chief Joseph
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And again it snowed, and again the sun came out. In the mornings on the way to the station Franklin counted the new snowmen that…
— Steven Millhauser
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What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.
— Lucretius
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The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The Hulk, a being of pure tortured id, bipolar mania unbound, sprung from the subconscious of a repressed, scientist with a dark childhood.
— Max Landis
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I had never 'taken a cutting' before ... Do you realize that the whole thing is miraculous? It is exactly as though you were to…
— Beverley Nichols
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Reason saw not, till Faith sprung the Light.
— John Dryden
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Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.…
— Walter Benjamin
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For many years I thought my job was to go to places where it would be difficult for most of the readers to ever get…
— Tim Cahill
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A lot of music fans are still interested in insightful perspectives on music - maybe even more interested than ever, since everyone needs help making…
— Michael Azerrad
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To the pilot of a deep sea submersible, upon finding out what would happen if the craft sprung a leak while submerged. I'll trust you…
— Dan Rather
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For we are all sprung from earth and water
— Xenophanes
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Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to…
— Graham Joyce
Who Wrote These Sprung Quotes
93 authors contributed a total of 103 Sprung Quotes, led by these top contributors: