Wore Quotes
541 Wore quotes by 469 unique authors
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He wore sweatpants and a T-shirt and had stopped in the middle of the hall, furiously scratching one bare forearm. "Fleas?" I said.
— Kelley Armstrong
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The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses. They tired his…
— Flannery O'Connor
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Suits obviously had helped to promote bad government and he was as guilty as anyone for wearing them so steadfastly for twenty years. Of late…
— Jim Harrison
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A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think.
— Emily Dickinson
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Everyday he got up. Before sleep wore off, he was who he used to be. Then, as his consciousness woke, it was as if poison…
— Alice Sebold
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Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Francie looked at her legs. They were long, slender, and exquisitely molded. She wore the sheerest of flawless silk stockings, and expensively made high-heeled pumps…
— Betty Smith
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On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons.
— Shirley Jackson
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I actually grew fond of her in a nastily superior kind of way. For she was so completely artless and optimistic and clueless, she didn't…
— Peter Cameron
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It felt as though the whole globe was dressed in snow. Like it has pulled it on, the way you pull on a sweater. Next…
— Markus Zusak
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He knew her now. She was the weird girl in the class above him, who dyed her hair pink and always wore a lot of…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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He laced his fingers through mine and lifted my hand to his lips. I had gloves on, but he kissed exactly where I wore his…
— Richelle Mead
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so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail dresses she no…
— John Irving
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Someone could cut through the mess in our house and look at it like one might look at rings on a tree or layers of…
— Holly Black
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I'm the smartest man in the world. Once I wore a cape in public, and fought battles against men who could fly, who had metal…
— Austin Grossman
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He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out.
— Ernest Hemingway
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I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks. They seemed touching, and…
— Sylvia Plath
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Where people work longest and with least leisure, they buy the fewest goods. No towns were so poor as those of England where the people,…
— Henry Ford
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Do people always act this way around you? (Kiara) You should have seen the reactions when I wore a League uniform. Those were actually comical.…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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On a basketball court, five players were in the middle of an intense game. They wore assortment of jerseys from different American teams, and they…
— Rick Riordan
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469 authors contributed a total of 541 Wore Quotes, led by these top contributors: