Stayed Quotes

781 quotes by 697 authors

The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home. — Jimmy Buffett
We stayed huddled that way until the early hours of the morning. The shootings and explosions had lasted less than an hour, but they had… — Khaled Hosseini
...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to… — Virginia Woolf
It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish on. But it was night, it stayed… — Zora Neale Hurston
It was an excess of fantasy that killed the old United States, the whole Mickey Mouse and Marilyn thing, the most brilliant technologies devoted to… — J. G. Ballard
I looked at my palms trying to see the other life, the parallel life. The point at which my selves broke away and one married… — Jeanette Winterson
Such a thing as the child left alone to die in the hallway was unknown on the marsh. But here, in the dawn, was mortality… — Mark Helprin
And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath? — Alexandra Ripley
The place smelled of fairgrounds, of lazy crowds, of nights when you stayed out because you couldn't go to bed, and it smelled like New… — Georges Simenon
The mother memories that are closest to my heart are the small gentle ones that I have carried over from the days of my childhood.… — Margaret Sanger
He'd felt like a jack-o-lantern for the past few days, as if his guts had been yanked out with a fork and dumped in a… — Cassandra Clare
They found out about him in July and stayed angry all through August. They tried to kill him in September. It was way too soon.… — Lee Child
I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that… — Charles Bukowski
There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart… — Edith Wharton
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and… — Hunter S. Thompson
If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of… — Harper Lee
The evenings grew longer; kitchen windows stayed open after dinner and peepers could be heard in the marsh. Isabelle, stepping out to sweep her porch… — Elizabeth Strout
The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open. — Allen Ginsberg
By now, it is probably very late at night, and you have stayed up to read this book when you should have gone to sleep.… — Brandon Sanderson
Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox. — Russell Brand

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