Writhing Quotes
39 quotes by 36 authors
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O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the…
— Mark Twain
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Let me tell you about my day. I get up at 8 o'clock in the morning. At 8:30 am, I leave the house and I…
— Thomas Harris
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I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one fish…
— Joaquin Phoenix
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One evening at a hotel in New York I flipped around the television channels. Suddenly there on the public access channel was a voluptuous young…
— Robert Bork
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In the belly of the furnace of creativity is a sexual fire; the flames twine about each other in fear and delight. The same sort…
— Gary Snyder
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All any feeling wants is to be welcomed with tenderness. It wants room to unfold. It wants to relax and tell its story. It wants…
— Geneen Roth
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Before our globe had become egg-shaped or round it was a long trail of cosmic dust or fire-mist, moving and writhing like a serpent. This,…
— Manly Hall
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My feelings about men are the result of my experience. I have little sympathy for them. Like a Jew just released from Dachau, I watch…
— Marilyn French
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The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside.
— Sam Vaknin
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There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down…
— Gerald Kersh
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I am often thought of as being remarkably bright, and yet my brains, more often than not, are busily devising new and interesting ways of…
— Alan Bradley
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The Magicians brilliantly explores the hidden underbelly of fantasy and easy magic, taking what’s simple on the surface and turning it over to show us…
— Naomi Novik
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Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of…
— Abraham Lincoln
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I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past,…
— Harlan Ellison
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I'm doing one of three things: I'm writing. I'm staring out the window. Or I'm writhing on the floor.
— Thomas Harris
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If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes writhing in his…
— Wilfred Owen
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Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.
— Lewis Carroll
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it may not always be so; and i say that if your lips, which i have loved, should touch another's, and your dear strong fingers…
— E E Cummings
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I sat on the bed. I looked at the Rorschach blot. I tried to make it look like a spreading tree, shadows pooled beneath it,…
— Alan Moore
Who Wrote These Writhing Quotes
36 authors contributed a total of 39 Writhing Quotes, led by these top contributors: