Tight Quotes
1066 Tight quotes by 806 unique authors
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The girl in the tight black dress was passing by us now, eyeing Wes and walking entirely too slowly. "Hi," she said, and he nodded…
— Sarah Dessen
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I don't believe in god, so I don't have to make elaborately sounded structures. ... Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.…
— Frank O'Hara
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...despite all this, it is still hard to admit that there is no one more English than the Indian, no one more Indian than the…
— Zadie Smith
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Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means,…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of…
— Louise Erdrich
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I do not remember very many things from the inside out. I do not remember what it felt like to touch things, or how bathwater…
— Marya Hornbacher
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In hospitals I feel palpable comfort. I feel the competence, the expertise, so much education and money, all of the supplies sterile, everything packaged, sealed…
— Dave Eggers
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If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the…
— Kerry Greenwood
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Radar revs the engine as to say hustle, and we are running through the parking lot, Ben's robe flowing in the wind so that he…
— John Green
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In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at…
— Toni Morrison
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I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because a story is…
— Jeanette Winterson
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We got off at the next exit, quietly, and, switching drivers, we walked in front of the car. We met and I held him, my…
— John Green
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If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a…
— Zadie Smith
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Indeed you did your best...I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between two such terrible…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our…
— Mitch Albom
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Emma is a mattress who got thrown off the truck when her parents split up. It's not like you can blame a mattress when people…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded…
— Aleksandar Hemon
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If I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses would be tied down tight to their trucks, bodies…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Chiron insisted that we talk about the Labyrinth in the morning which is like 'Hey, your life's in mortal danger. Sleep tight!
— Rick Riordan
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Guys like him, the ones who grip the Bible so tight they leave fingernail grooves, they're the ones who are the most scared of their…
— David Wong
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