Strain Quotes

303 quotes by 267 authors

Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in. — Florence King
There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the… — Pindar
I closed my eyes. The only things I knew about why Empty Ones worked the way we did was that we had room for extra… — Kiersten White
You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous dreams,… — Jack Kerouac
We strain to tell Americans and aliens in this country that there's nothing unique about America, nothing unique about American civilization, nothing that requires their… — Tom Tancredo
There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother… — Carol Vorderman
I find as a viewer, when I go to see comedies, the strain to be funny throughout the whole thing. I start to lose my… — Mike White
All the billions of people who now inhabit our planet are putting a terrific strain on its aura, making it difficult, even for evolved people… — Frederick Lenz
Having a profile means you have to be cautious of who you let into your world, as you don't know if they're being genuine or… — Jesse Metcalfe
There's not a strong autobiographical strain in my fiction. A few bits of fact here and there. — Donald Barthelme
There's a big anti-intellectual strain in the American south, and there always has been. We're not big on thought. — Donna Tartt
There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also… — Bayard Rustin
Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non… — Paul Daniels
The human organism inherits so delicate an adjustment to climate that, in spite of man's boasted ability to live anywhere, the strain of the frozen… — Ellsworth Huntington
Market values are fixed only in part by balance sheets and income statements; much more by the hopes and fears of humanity; by greed, ambition,… — Gerald M. Loeb
Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will… — James D. Watson
My dinners have never interfered with my business. They have been my recreation. . . A public banquet, if eaten with thought and care, is… — Chauncey Depew
There is a historic strain of dominion theology which says, taking its references from the Psalms, that man is made just a little lower than… — Bill Moyers
Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain, Play all the comfort o'er again. — Joseph Addison
Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of… — Samuel Johnson

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