Taut Quotes

36 quotes by 36 authors

Until the dead are buried they change somewhat in appearance each day. The color change in Caucasian races is from white to yellow, to yellow-green,… — Ernest Hemingway
Michael Koryta isnâ€™t just one of the finest authors working in the crime genre today. Heâ€™s simply one of todayâ€™s finest authors, period. His stories… — William Kent Krueger
In this state one enriches everything out of one's own fullness: whatever one sees, whatever wills is seen swelled, taut, strong, overloaded with strength. A… — Friedrich Nietzsche
My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled… — Stan Getz
Of course, the truth is that the congresspersons are too busy raising campaign money to read the laws they pass. The laws are written by… — Dave Barry
What I remember best from those times is the music itself. When it succeded, we took hold of the audience's attention, working it from a… — Andromeda Romano-Lax
In one of our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 pounds on an iron frame. It is proof that out… — Theodore E. Steinway
But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only… — Robert Frost
If Murakami's novels are grand enigmas, his stories are bite-sized conundrums. (...) The great pleasure of the new story collection, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, is… — Antoine Wilson
Another boat, a straight-four, four sweep oarsmen without a coxswain, raced through our flotilla. I looked at them as they jetted past, and I quickly… — Brad Alan Lewis
Across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of Homer is turned upon our age. Along the echoing corridors of time, the roar of the… — Arthur C. Clarke
Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaulâ€™s research is extraordinary; his writing is… — Debby Applegate
The Eleventh Plague hits disturbingly close to home An excellent, taut debut novel. — Suzanne Collins
You fool, You have been dangling For such a long time! When will you seize the opportunity Or feel the necessity To untangle the taut… — Sri Chinmoy
If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy… — Don DeLillo
What a rare joy it is to linger in the lucid, transcendent worlds of Jennifer Maier's poems. In taut, precise language and lapidary images, Now,… — Rick Hilles
The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected. — Al Gore
When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in the cages of our personality and… — D. H. Lawrence
It had not been a long journey, but the memory of it filled her like an infection. She had felt tethered by time to the… — China Mieville
Engaged in a fiery dance, their bodies were linked and seperated by the flashing blades. At times they nearly touched, taut skin only a hair's… — Christopher Paolini

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