Whirled Quotes
38 quotes by 35 authors
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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
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My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; I know not where I am nor what I do.
— William Shakespeare
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled. (“The Testimony of…
— George Sterling
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My glowing form was so heavy, its feet sank into the top of the tank. “Sekhmet!†I yelled. The lioness whirled and snarled, trying to…
— Rick Riordan
Who Wrote These Whirled Quotes
35 authors contributed a total of 38 Whirled Quotes, led by these top contributors: