Quote by George Saunders Download Open image ““He was like the bed at a party on which they pile the coats.”” — George Saunders ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I tossed it on a pile with the coat, my stiff-with-cold jeans and the expensive scrap of silk that had been wedged up my… — Karen Chance Copy Share Image
“His laugh was like nails to a chalkboard. "I cannot remember a time when anything was new to me. I only ever see the… — Diantha Jones Copy Share Image
“We will have to cut our coats to suit our cloth, and wait and see.” — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
“The housekeeper had been there that afternoon. I could always tell because the sheets on the bed would be tucked in so tight, trying… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
“It was strange walking through the empty apartment. My battered purple room was gone, Brittany’s bruised blue was gone. Two coats covered everything. It… — Kimberly Novosel Copy Share Image
“I leaned over, took her hands and brought them together, closing her coat. “You know damn well what I think.” — Archer Mayor Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it's easier to cut your coat to fit the cloth than lie on the bed you've made.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Just wait until you see what I can do with the fancy stuff, like a bed.” — Thea Harrison Copy Share Image
“But we were hungry. And we had things to do. Roscoe put on the clothes she’d brought from her place in the morning. Jeans,… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
“. . . he lies on the couch with only his pants, boots and bandages wrapped around him. I thought about taking off his… — Susan Ee Copy Share Image
“In these evenings he sat by our beds weaving folktales like vivid little scarves.” — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
Success is like a mountain in front of you that keeps growing. If you're not careful, it will take up your whole life. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Wow wow wow is all I can say! Remember how I always buy lunchtime Scratch-Off ticket? Have I said? Maybe did not say? Well,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“None of it was real; nothing was real. Everything was real; inconceivably real, infinitely dear. These and all things started as nothing, latent within… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“We must see God not as a Him (some linear rewarding fellow) but an IT, a great beast beyond our understanding, who wants something… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
In my case, when I am trying to be "kind" I often default in a sort of toothless loving-all stance that is, actually, not… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“A Clinton staffer tells me his theory. Think about Frank Sinatra, he says: born to sing. Think about Willie Mays: born to play ball.… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish. — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“You were torturing a cat," she says. "With a freaking prod." "A prod I built myself in metal shop," he says. "But of course… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
“Rachel got up and did this happy little shuffle, like she was some cheerful farmer chick who'd just stepped outside to find the hick… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
What America is, to me, is a guy doesn't want to buy, you let him not buy, you respect his not buying. A guy… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
