Washed Quotes
360 quotes by 314 authors
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Every part of my body felt electric. My chest ached and my head throbbed with the great terrible limitless possibility of the morning, and when…
— Dave Eggers
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Hearts united in pain and sorrow will not be separated by joy and happiness. Bonds that are woven in sadness are stronger than the ties…
— Khalil Gibran
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A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made…
— Robin Hobb
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Was life nothing more than a storm that constantly washed away what had been there only a moment before, and left behind something barren and…
— Arthur Golden
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Oh no, I never do much ironing, except the outside clothes. We must not iron out the fresh air and sunshine, you know. It is…
— Laura Ingalls Wilder
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A soft Sea washed around the House A Sea of Summer Air And rose and fell the magic Planks That sailed without a care —…
— Emily Dickinson
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The smile that flickers on a baby’s lips when he sleeps- does anyone know where it was born? Yes, there is a rumor that a…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I am afraid of hearing voices, or a voice. I…
— Margaret Atwood
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I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb and exquisite. His…
— Katherine Dunn
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The sun glistened on a drop of water as it fell from his hand to his knee. David wiped it off, but it left no…
— Anne Holm
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Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind in…
— Gary Snyder
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And the needles of the pine trees, freshly washed to a deep, rich green, shimmered with droplets that blinked like clear crystals.
— Billie Letts
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I have dreamed of our bed as if it were a shore where we would be washed up, not this striped mattress we must cover…
— Linda Pastan
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Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We…
— Julian Barnes
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If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of…
— Paulo Coelho
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I washed a sock. Then I put it in the dryer. When I took it out, it was gone.
— Steven Wright
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In the past, I had particularly loved her smell. She always smelled freshed, freshly washed or of freshed laundry or fresh sweat or freshly loved
— Bernhard Schlink
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So the books for the Englishman, as he listened intently or not, had gaps of plot like sections of a road washed out by storms,…
— Michael Ondaatje
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I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in- and I am sure my dinners are…
— Seth Grahame-Smith
Who Wrote These Washed Quotes
314 authors contributed a total of 360 Washed Quotes, led by these top contributors: