Switch Quotes
406 quotes by 377 authors
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When the switch fell I could feel it upon my flesh; when it welted and ridged it was my blood that ran, and I would…
— William Faulkner
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There's power in the night. There's terror in the darkness. Despite all our accumulated history, learning, and experience, we remember. We remember times when we…
— Jim Butcher
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I wished there was some kind of switch on my brain. That I could turn it off in the same way that I could turn…
— Marian Keyes
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There was no easy switch that she could flip to stem the flow of feelings, no way to drain the memories that pooled like acid…
— Jodi Picoult
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Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light. Human words have no main switch.…
— Anne Carson
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and just like that, I shut off the switch to my brain.
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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It's like a switch, clickin' off in my head. Turns the hot light off and the cool one on, and all of a sudden there's…
— Tennessee Williams
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When you were young, you thought time was a burden, something to be discharged as fast as possible so you could be grown-up. But it…
— J R Ward
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Worry is to joy what a Hoover vacuum cleaner is to dirt: might as well attach your heart to a happiness-sucker and flip the switch.
— Max Lucado
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You'd give up drinking to go see your dad?" "Well, not permanently," he said. "That'd be ridiculous. But maybe I could switch to something slightly…
— Richelle Mead
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No one should be ashamed to speak up. Shame makes it easy for neglect and abuse and bullying to stay huddled together in their dark…
— Susane Colasanti
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You still don't get it, do you, Margaret?' Kat smiled almost sadly. 'We never had to steal the Antony. All we had to do was…
— Ally Carter
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They put on fresh gloves and got back to business. Jazz wiped up the blood splatters in the freezer and tossed the tissues in with…
— Barry Lyga
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So I switch to my MacBook and make my rounds: news sites, blogs, tweets. I scroll back to find the conversations that happened without me…
— Robin Sloan
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If only men were like New York taxi-cabs and had a light that they can switch on when they're interested and off when they're not…
— Alexandra Potter
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What I really hated, of course, was my mind. There must have been an off switch somewhere, but I was damned if I could find…
— David Sedaris
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You have so much going on. It comes off like a..." "Static?" I suggested. "Exactly!" He snapped his fingers and pointed at me. "You need…
— Amanda Hocking
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It's over, Sam. Finally." "Yeah," he said. "I guess it is." "Turn out the light, Sam." Sam reached for the switch and turned out the…
— Michael Grant
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The time to look for a new job is when you don't need one. The time to switch jobs is before it feels comfortable.
— Seth Godin
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Abnegation produces deeply serious people. People who automatically see things like need,†he says. “I’ve noticed that when people switch to Dauntless, it creates some…
— Veronica Roth
Who Wrote These Switch Quotes
377 authors contributed a total of 406 Switch Quotes, led by these top contributors: