String Quotes

475 quotes by 386 authors

After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau knew by a… — Susanna Clarke
There are things roaming around inside my head as clever as Theseus in the Labyrinth. It's just that nobody ever gave them the necessary piece… — Geraldine McCaughrean
After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. — Aldous Huxley
You got a job?" "Ignatius hasta help me at home," Mrs. Reilly said. Her initial courage was failing a little, and she began to twist… — John Kennedy Toole
If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say. — Margaret Atwood
...he enclosed pieces of string that he used to measure out his body--his head, thigh, forearm, finger, neck, everything. He wanted me to sleep with… — Jonathan Safran Foer
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. — H. L. Mencken
Desperate times call for desperate measures. That's a saying, or a bit of advice, or a catchprase, or a string of words used to confuse… — Obert Skye
Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the military or floor managers in… — Jonathan Kozol
pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the… — Charles Bukowski
You can define a net two ways, depending on your point of view. Normally you would say it is a meshed instrument designed to catch… — Julian Barnes
If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose… — Khaled Hosseini
Isn't it time that these most ancient sorrows of ours grew fruitful? Time that we tenderly loosed ourselves from the loved one, and, unsteadily, survived:… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I give you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's gate Built in… — William Blake
When her hands reached out and poured the tea, it was as if she also poured something into me while I sat there sweating in… — Markus Zusak
Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to… — Jeanette Winterson
Except for when I was very little and thought that being an "engineer" meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him in the seat… — Nicole Krauss
So that's who Finnick loves, I think. Not his string of fancy lovers in the Capitol. But a poor, mad girl back home. — Suzanne Collins

Who Wrote These String Quotes

386 authors contributed a total of 475 String Quotes, led by these top contributors: