Trunks Quotes
163 quotes by 153 authors
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I kept arguing that 'love is the most important force, love is the most important force.' So I wanted to show him loving. Sometimes it's…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So large a trunk before.
— Hilaire Belloc
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Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgment Day, they were the only sinners who didn't get…
— Jodi Picoult
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Then came the gadgeteer, otherwise known as the sporting-goods dealer. He has draped the American outdoorsman with an infinity of contraptions, all offered as aids…
— Aldo Leopold
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In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this…
— Jeanette Winterson
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I was on top of Keanu Reeves, he was on his back and I was on my trunk, and I was breathing down his neck…
— Hugo Weaving
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All elongated objects, such as sticks, tree-trunks and umbrellas(the opening of these last being comparable to an erection) may stand for the male organ...Boxes, cases,…
— Sigmund Freud
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I always thought jazz was like the trunk of a tree. After the tree has grown, many branches have spread out. They're all with different…
— Earl Hines
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Like a child exploring the attic of an old house on a rainy day, discovering a trunk full of treasure and then calling all his…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him…
— Enrico Fermi
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One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and…
— Justin Cronin
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Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.
— Zakes Mda
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A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and…
— Marguerite Young
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We treat this world of ours as though we have a spare in the trunk.
— Al Bernstein
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Growth is the surviving influence in all our lives. The tree will send up its trunk in thick profusion from land burned black by atom…
— Chester Himes
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You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central…
— Mary McCarthy
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The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing.
— Augustus William Hare
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The evocative power of the drum can be compared to the Trinity. The drum's frame comes from the trunk of a tree, and that tree…
— Babatunde Olatunji
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What is a memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly refines the past into a narrative, accessible…
— Stanley Kauffmann
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Trunk steady knocking/ Floating through the sky, Mary Poppins.
— Riff Raff
Who Wrote These Trunks Quotes
153 authors contributed a total of 163 Trunks Quotes, led by these top contributors: