Boxes Quote by Janet Fitch Download Open image “The word rattled in my head like rocks in an oatmeal box.” — Janet Fitch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boxes Oatmeal Rocks
A kind word is no substitute for a piece of herring or a bag of oats. — Sholom Aleichem Copy Share Image
Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation. — Rita Dove Copy Share Image
Wordstruck is exactly what I was—and still am: crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words, the feeling… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
Dear Complete and Utter Stranger, The first thing that I have to say is that I hate oatmeal. I really hate it. And you… — Jaclyn Moriarty Copy Share Image
Words were like objects, making the idea more solid -- less a poisonous gas and more a ... cube of crystallized thought. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Words can be tiresome as a swarm of insects. They can prick and buzz! Words can be no more than a series of farts;… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
It was strange how words meant something when they came out of your mouth. Inside your head they were safe and silent, but once… — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
Sometimes words come out of me and I don't know where they come from or why. They're like falling stars tumbling through the universe;… — Glenda Millard Copy Share Image
Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles. — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
How could anybody confuse truth with beauty, I thought as I looked at him. Truth came with sunken eyes, bony or scarred, decayed. Its… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I love Derrick Brown for the surprise of one word waking up next to another. One moment tender, funny or romantic, the next, visceral,… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“That fucking crow-bodied thing had won. How gleeful it was now. All because he'd wanted to live, forget genius and destiny, and simply be… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
No matter how unappealing, each of them imagines he is somehow worthy. — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The nearest I'd come to feeling anything like God was the plan blue cloudless sky and a certain silence, but how do you pray… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
When most people looked at Josie Tyrell, they only saw a certain collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space. But Michael saw… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“They can't touch us. We're the Vikings. We go into battle without armor for the flush and the blood of it.” — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“But I knew one more thing. That people who denied who they were or where they had been were in the greatest danger.” — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“To dare to see is to steal fire from the Gods. This is mankind's destiny, the engine which fuels us as a race. Three… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
This is what happens when you fall in love. You're looking at a natural disaster. — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“If I were a poet, that’s what I’d write about. People who worked in the middle of the night. Men who loaded trains, emergency… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“what was the point in creating something that was so futile and so precious? everything beautiful was like that. a little bit of the… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The best way to marginalize the Muslim Brotherhood [in Egypt] is in the ballot box, not through arrests and killing people. — Kelly Ayotte Copy Share Image
When I step into the batters box. The fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
I separated the joints, the arm joints, the leg joints, and had to do two boilings. I think I used four boxes of Soilex… — Jeffrey Dahmer Copy Share Image
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He decided then that he would love her forever no matter what came to pass. It was not so much a matter of deciding… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually. — John Green Copy Share Image
I have nothing but praise for the boy. He is easily the best player in the world. His contribution as a goal threat is… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
3 people get stranded on a remote Island A Banker, a Daily Mail reader & an Asylum seeker All they have to eat is… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I could party in a cardboard box with people who are funny and don't care. For me, it's really about who I surround myself… — Kesha Copy Share Image