Tilt Quotes
70 Tilt quotes by 65 unique authors
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There is, as yet, no sense of pride in the husbandry of wild plants and animals, no sense of shame in the proprietorship of a…
— Aldo Leopold
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I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in…
— Michael J. Fox
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I don't take on a fight just for a fight. I don't tilt at windmills.
— Carly Fiorina
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The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All the arithmetic, the…
— Penn Jillette
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I look like a duck. It's the way my mouth curls up, or my nose tilts up. I should have played Howard the Duck.
— Michelle Pfeiffer
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There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing…
— Marcel Proust
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You can be betrayed in your sleep. The whole world can tilt while you're dreaming of butterflies.
— Alice Hoffman
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Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Have you worked here long?" Sebastian asks. Just a few months," I say. "Do you come here a lot?" As if you don't know, Jade.…
— Deb Caletti
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We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded, intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman in her blindest devotion…
— Rudyard Kipling
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Blasts from the past were like the rooms one entered and re-entered in dreams: they would not stay nailed down. When you returned to them,…
— Lorrie Moore
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I rise up on my tiptoes. He's already bending his head down, moving his lips toward mine. And then, well, I haven't exactly studied this,…
— Margaret Haddix
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Let me peer out at the world through your lens. (Maybe I'll shudder, or gasp, or tilt my head in a question.) Let me see…
— Naomi Shihab Nye
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I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that perfect combination of…
— Lauren Willig
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You fell in love with someone because of the tilt of his smile, or because he could make you laugh, or in this case, because…
— Jodi Picoult
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Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear…
— Lauren Oliver
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When she comes She pulls you close She breathes in short bursts Her eyes close Her head tilts back Her mouth opens slightly Her thighs…
— Henry Rollins
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He tilts his forehead down to rest against mine and pulls me closer. His skin, his whole being radiates heat from being so near the…
— Suzanne Collins
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The rides are different for everyone. I'm convinced of that now. I mean, sure, there are some we ride together. Either we find ourselves drawn…
— Neal Shusterman
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He's at ease, his body sculpted to the music, his shoulder searching the other shoulder, his right toe knowing the left knee, the height, the…
— Colum McCann
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There's that confidence again, that semi-infuriating easiness of his, the tilt of his head and the smile. but today it's not infuriating. Today I like…
— Lauren Oliver
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But please, when you see an opportunity…” He presses his hand to my cheek, cold and strong, and tilts my head up so I have…
— Veronica Roth
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There was something striking about her posture; something about the tilt to her head. She was like a beautiful and lonely piece of art, lovely…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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The Earth is God's pinball machine and each quake, tidal wave, flash flood and volcanic eruption is the result of a TILT that occurs when…
— Tom Robbins
Who Wrote These Tilt Quotes
65 authors contributed a total of 70 Tilt Quotes, led by these top contributors: