Struck Quotes
675 Struck quotes by 567 unique authors
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It kind of struck me how great it would be to go out with a guy that size. And if you, you know, got tired…
— Catherine Gilbert Murdock
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Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.
— Jack Gantos
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But of all the water's secrets, he saw today only a single one-one that struck his soul. He saw that this water flowed and flowed,…
— Hermann Hesse
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To do such a thing would be to transcend magic. And I beheld, unclouded by doubt, a magnificent vision of all that invisibility might mean…
— H.G. Wells
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At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.
— Arthur Golden
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Organic Oreos are not a health food. When Coca-Cola begins selling organic Coke, as it surely will, the company will have struck a blow for…
— Michael Pollan
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Yes,' Spade growled. 'And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it.' He released Cairo's wrist and with a thick open hand struck the…
— Dashiell Hammett
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For the first time, I had been struck by the excitement of the traveler who looks history in her subtle face.
— Elizabeth Kostova
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See," he said, "the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life.
— James M. Barrie
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I was struck by an awful thought, the kind that cannot be taken back once it escapes into the open air of consciousness; it seemed…
— John Green
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I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the…
— Madeline Miller
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I do not care if they do not like me," he said. "Maybe then they will let me alone, and I will not have to…
— Naomi Novik
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He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery - love. All…
— Tennessee Williams
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Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are…
— Roald Dahl
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The phrase what I want struck me. It contains so much entitlement, so many complications, but encompasses only what a person doesn't have.
— Tiffanie DeBartolo
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I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.)
— Sylvia Plath
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The Buddha taught that all life is suffering. We might also say that life, being both attractive and constantly dangerous, is intoxicating and ultimately toxic.…
— Gary Snyder
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There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, “I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause of all, and…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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... it struck me as so hard to believe I was really getting what I wanted; it was always easier to feel the lack of…
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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And there is the girl. When I first see her and her dun mare from my vantage point on the cliff road, I am struck…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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In the olden days, when wishing still worked, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest daughter was so lovely that…
— Jacob Grimm
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People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up.
— Anne Tyler
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All writers are insecure, the male ones especially. It's well known. Why else would they spend so much time on make-believe? They're only happy in…
— Philip Sington
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Hatred is always a sin, my mother told me. Remember that. One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a…
— Alice Munro
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Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Who Wrote These Struck Quotes
567 authors contributed a total of 675 Struck Quotes, led by these top contributors: