Whirled Quotes

38 quotes by 35 authors

All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain?… — C.S. Lewis
My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; I know not where I am nor what I do. — William Shakespeare
It was as if she lived only on clear, salty air, and when the day came for her to pass away, she would probably do… — John Ajvide Lindqvist
A pair of jaybirds came up from nowhere, whirled up on the blast like gaudy scraps of cloth or paper and lodged in the mulberries,… — William Faulkner
The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees by the dark lake burned… — Mervyn Peake
The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that… — Virginia Woolf
IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere. — Edward Carpenter
In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, Like weeds uplifted, The tree-trunks rifted In spars are drifted, Like… — Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Christmas frost had come at midsummer; a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses;… — Charlotte Bronte
I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at… — Ernest Hemingway
For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the most solid among… — Marcel Proust
Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even… — William Goldman
A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth, now whirled again… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
She whirled when the monster was almost on top of her. I thought the thing in her hands was an umbrella until she cranked the… — Rick Riordan
Before I could cry or scream I whirled around and stalked to my bedroom,slamming the door behind me. I hope they all drown. "Zoey your… — P. C. Cast
If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent If the unheard, unspoken Word is unspoken, unheard; Still is the spoken word,… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Liar! Liar!" shrieked suddenly from the now open trap door. Miracle Max whirled. "Back, Witch--" he commanded. "I'm not a witch, I'm your wife--" she… — William Goldman
I whirled around and saw no one. No psychotic mad scientists, anyway. "Jackpot, Max! Jackpot!" It was was Fang, and he was giggling hysterically. For… — James Patterson
And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled. (â€œThe Testimony of… — George Sterling
My glowing form was so heavy, its feet sank into the top of the tank. â€œSekhmet!â€ I yelled. The lioness whirled and snarled, trying to… — Rick Riordan

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35 authors contributed a total of 38 Whirled Quotes, led by these top contributors: