Sweep Quotes
251 Sweep quotes by 224 unique authors
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That’s life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like it’s nothing. If you ask me I don’t think…
— Junot Diaz
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...I is another. If the brass wakes the trumpet, it’s not its fault. That’s obvious to me: I witness the unfolding of my own thought:…
— Arthur Rimbaud
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Nick, fetch my car, fetch my clothes, sweep the chimney, make my bed, watch my psychopath, fetch my slippers.’ Yeah, I’ll fetch those slippers and…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I understood the word 'swoon'. It felt that way, like 'sweep' and 'moon' and 'woo', all those words smashed together in one word that stood…
— Judy Blundell
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For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate…
— George Orwell
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His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out, sweep the premises…
— J M Coetzee
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In the alluvial sweep of the land, I thought I could see the past and the present and the future all at once, as though…
— James Lee Burke
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At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the same, that when…
— Nicole Krauss
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The truth is not always useful, not always good. It’s like putting your faith in water. Yes, we need the rain, but too much can…
— Iain Banks
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I have studied many religions, many different persuasions of thought in Christian belief, and I have come, in this experience to this: the most important…
— Dale Evans
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Music burst through him, perfect notes he hear rarely. Fire and ice, wind and calm, sky and earth, water and rock all fused together. Joley…
— Christine Feehan
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If two angels were to receive at the same moment a commission from God, one to go down and rule earth’s grandest empire, the other…
— John Newton
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It is quite a thing. There are so many men, all endlessly trying to sweep me off my feet. And there is one of you,…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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Marya Morevna! Don't you know anything? Girls must be very, very careful to care only for ribbons and magazines and wedding rings. They must sweep…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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Several of them were discussing this in low tones as they waited for Halt to arrive - until they realized that he was already among…
— John Flanagan
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I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds…
— Arthur Golden
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I am conscious of a soul-sense that lifts me above the narrow, cramping circumstances of my life. My physical limitations are forgotten- my world lies…
— Helen Keller
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Why now? Why not wait for a man to come along and…sweep you off your feet?†She gave a short laugh. “If the man you…
— Sarah MacLean
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The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man’s true nature emerge. In death, as on…
— Franz Kafka
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‎If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative…
— Stephen King
Who Wrote These Sweep Quotes
224 authors contributed a total of 251 Sweep Quotes, led by these top contributors: