Wring Quotes

49 quotes by 45 authors

No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out… — Lynn Abbey
I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth. The fact is… — Maya Angelou
No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To… — William Shakespeare
It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wring… — George Sand
O woman! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When… — Walter Scott
If we were given one word of information in our entire history, how we'd treasure it! how we'd pore over ever syllable, divining it's meaning,… — Karen Traviss
Take eloquence and wring its neck. — Paul Verlaine
All my life, I have been sickened by everything connected with meat-, fish-, and poultry eating. As a child, I saw apparently nice, kind people… — Percy Grainger
A certain similarity exists, although the type evolves, between all the women we love, a similarity that is due to the fixity of our own… — Marcel Proust
The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are. — S. J. Perelman
The war on drugs was never meant to be won. Instead, it will be prolonged as long as possible in order to allow various intelligence… — Terence McKenna
Maybe its a case of one guitar feeling a certain way to the hands that makes one subsequently move differently over the strings, but my… — Gary Lucas
It may be tempting to look back and wring our hands over missed opportunities for change in the preceding decades. But, I'm not interested at… — Jennifer Granholm
You will ruin no more lives as you ruined mine. You will wring no more hearts as you wrung mine. I will free the world… — Arthur Conan Doyle
How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all? — Christopher Fry
The 'Sports Illustrated' cover was the last thing I shot. That week, I told my agent, 'You know what, I really... I don't want to… — Brooklyn Decker
I've always considered myself a workaholic... The way I work, I have to turn myself upside down and hang myself by my ankles and wring… — Joshua Homme
The blues? Why, the blues are a part of me. They're like a chant. The blues are like spirituals, almost sacred. When we sing blues,… — Alberta Hunter
A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a… — Eleanor Robson Belmont
The only thing pain can wring from a soul that has abandoned resistance and from a mind that has lost its hate is sorrow — Yi Mun-yol

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