Tumbled Quotes
19 quotes by 19 authors
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Land! An island! We devoured it greedily with our eyes and woke the others, who tumbled out drowsily and stared in all directions as if…
— Thor Heyerdahl
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Once upon a time there were three kittens, and their names were Mitten, Tom Kitten, and Moppet. They had dear little fur coats of their…
— Beatrix Potter
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Writer Somerset Maugham, after his parents deaths, spent a few stultifying years in his uncle's vicarage. Later, in his teens at a boarding-school, having lost…
— Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon
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My first year in L.A. I felt lost in that big city. It's easy to be tumbled around and not figure out where you fit…
— Steve Aoki
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Stories are a kind of thing, too. Stories and objects share something, a patina. I thought I had this clear, two years ago before I…
— Edmund de Waal
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In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.
— Stephen Baxter
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We want to be God in all the ways that are not the ways of God, in what we hope is indestructible or unmoving. But…
— Deena Metzger
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The American woman has not yet slipped into a cocoon, but she has tumbled down a rabbit hole into sudden isolation.
— Susan Faludi
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There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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In streams of light I clearly saw The dust you seldom see, Out of which the Nameless makes A Name for one like me... All…
— Leonard Cohen
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There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those of us not…
— Richard Dawkins
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For John was running, and this was terrible. Because if you ran, time ran. You yelled and screamed and raced and rolled and tumbled and…
— Ray Bradbury
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Svengal lay groaning on the turf. His thighs were sheer agony. His buttocks ached. His calf muscles were on fire. Now, afterhe had tumbled off…
— John Flanagan
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I-" said Nick, his voice halting. "I don't mind it as much when - when people touch me. Some people." Mae looked down, and Nick,…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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Felt my heartbeat falter, hesitate, then stumble awkwardly forward, tripping on the next beat, then the next, faster and faster until each one tumbled into…
— Darynda Jones
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His finger flicked open a button on my cardigan-then two, three, four. It tumbled off my shoulders, leaving me in my camisole. He pushed up…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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Lord have mercy on my soul what I've done and what I've seen My life has tumbled into that which only you could intervene
— Kendrick Cole
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I ran up the door, opened the stairs, said my pajamas and put on my prayers turned off my bed, tumbled into my light, and…
— Ritu Ghatourey
Who Wrote These Tumbled Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 19 Tumbled Quotes as follows: