Struck Quotes
675 Struck quotes by 567 unique authors
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I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a…
— Julian McMahon
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The idea of determinism combined with complete human responsibility struck me as very hard to reconcile with an idea of justice, let alone mercy.
— Ken MacLeod
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A foreign observer is struck by our gentleness: by the orderly behaviour of the English crowds, the lack of pushing and quarrelling, the willingness to…
— George Mikes
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And just as music is the space between notes, just as the stars are beautiful because of the space between them, just as the sun…
— Donna Tartt
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I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making…
— Ken Adam
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Having worked at four separate Wall Street firms, having seen a variety of talent at those places, and having competed against Goldman as a banker,…
— William D. Cohan
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The suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 killed 52 innocent people and wounded hundreds more. All of them must live with their…
— Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
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We owe it to the victims of the suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 to find out how the attacks happened and…
— Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
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From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was…
— A. E. Hotchner
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Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one thing…
— Peter York
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Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this…
— Henry Adams
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I was struck by the fact that I hadn't been awed in a while. Did that mean awesome things had disappeared from my life? No.…
— Sue Thoele
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Those who are skilled in archery bend their bow only when they are preparing to use it; when they do not require it, they allow…
— Herodotus
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I've never been obsessed with celebrity or star-struck or anything. I met Penelope Cruz when we were in Toronto, who I think is a goddess…
— Carey Mulligan
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An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she…
— James Russell Lowell
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What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers--shall we now Contaminate our fingers with…
— William Shakespeare
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Some people stick with the traditional, feeling struck by the epic beauty or blown away by the insane scale of the universe. Personally, I go…
— Enrico Fermi
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I was devastated by the atrocious bombings that struck London today. These vicious acts have cut us all to the core, for they are an…
— Kofi Annan
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Images of burning Red Cross and UN buildings struck by US bombs contrasted with images of thousands of desperately poor Afghan women carrying sickly and…
— Cynthia McKinney
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What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in…
— Andrew Schneider
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Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.
— Alexander von Humboldt
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The government sent the Indians to Oklahoma. They had a treaty that said, 'You shall have this land as long as grass grows and water…
— Will Rogers
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The Government which attacks its own innocent subjects has no claim to be called a civilised government. Bear in mind, such a government does not…
— Lala Lajpat Rai
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I ne'er was struck before that hour with love so sudden and so sweet. Her face it bloomed like a sweet flower and stole my…
— John Clare
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Wood heat is not new. It dates back to a day millions of years ago, when a group of cavemen were sitting around, watching dinosaurs…
— Dave Barry
Who Wrote These Struck Quotes
567 authors contributed a total of 675 Struck Quotes, led by these top contributors: