Chests Quotes - Page 7

• With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything.

  Saul Bellow

  Sadness, Solitary Life, Long

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• It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one sentence at a time, tearing it up and chewing on its bones. It's all about SYMBOLISM, says Hairwoman. Every word chosen by Nathaniel, every comma, every paragraph break -- these were all done on purpose. To get a decent grade in her class, we have to figure out what he was really trying to say. Why couldn't he just say what he meant? Would they pin scarlet letters on his chest? B for blunt, S for straightforward?

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Reading, Class, Symbolism

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• When we press the thorn to our chest we know, we understand, and still we do it.

  Colleen McCullough

  Stills, Knows, Presses

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• Todd? Are you still there?" "Yeah. I'm just trying to think of a good reason to continue our friendship." I grinned. "Jealousy is so unattractive Todd." "It would help if you could tell me one thing that's wrong. One flaw. Bad breath? Warts? Some condition that requires anti fungal spray?" "Would chest hair be a flaw?" "Oh, yeah." Todd sounded relieved." I can't stand a chest rug. You can't see the chest cut.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Cutting, Thinking, Hair

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Blue-Eyed Devil: Number 2 in series”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests of young women impaled on steering-columns; the cheek of handsome youths torn on the chromium latches of quarter-lights. To Vaughan, these wounds formed the key to a new sexuality, born from a perverse technology. The images of these wounds hung in the gallery of his mind, like exhibits in the museum of a slaughterhouse.

  J. G. Ballard

  Technology, Men, Keys

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• Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out. Aureliano José had been destined to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him, to have seven children, and to die in her arms of old age, but the bullet that entered his back and shattered his chest had been directed by a wrong interpretation of the cards.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Children, Orange, Years

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• I want to die on your chest but not yet she wrote sometime in the 13th century of our love

  Michael Ondaatje

  Our Love, Want, Century

  FaceBook post by Michael Ondaatje from Oct 12, 2012

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• Act on your impulse, swallow the bottle, cut a little deeper, put the gun to your chest.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Cutting, Gun, Bottles

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• I crossed my arms over my chest. "Are you lost, little girl? The elementary school's over on west campus." A pink flush spread over her cheeks. "Don't you ever touch me again. You screw with me, I'll screw you right back." Oh man, what an opening that was.

  Richelle Mead

  Girl, School, Men

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.27, Penguin

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• When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director's task is just that – to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over. And he must be allowed the space, the freedom to express himself in the role. Without that space, an actor is no more than an unthinking robot with a chest-full of push-buttons.

  James Dean

  Following Instructions, Order, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I decided.. that I could go on being scared forever, that I could keep walking, that I could carry my rage around, hot and heavy in my chest forever. But maybe there was another way. You have everything you need, my mother had told me. And maybe all I needed was the courage to admit that what I needed was someone to lean on.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Mother, Forever, Hot

  Jennifer Weiner (2008). “Good In Bed”, p.488, Simon and Schuster

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• The thread has snapped. No sound even to mark the breaking let alone the fall. That long anticipated disintegration, when the darkest angel of all, the horror beyond all horrors, sits at last upon my chest, permanently enfolding me in its great covering wings, black as ink, veined in Bees' purple. A creature without a voice. A voice without a name. As immortal as my life. Come here at long last to summon the wind.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Fall, Angel, Wind

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• Wish you could turn off the questions, turn off the voices, turn off all sound. Yearn to close out the ugliness, close out the filthiness, close out all light. Long to cast away yesterday, cast away memory, cast away all jeapordy. Pray you could somehow stop uncertainty, somehow stop the loathing, somehow stop the pain. Act on your impulse, swallow the bottle, cut a little deeper, put the gun to your chest.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Pain, Memories, Cutting

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Impulse”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• and standing before me a bloodied bottle of Absolut in her hand, is Mrs. Allington, her pink jogging suit drenched, her chest heaving, her eyes filled with contempt as she stared down at Rachel's prone body. Mrs. Allington shakes her head. "I'm a size twelve," she says.

  Meg Cabot

  Eye, Hands, Twelve

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• In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home.

  Barbara Hurd

  Letting Go, Dream, Home

  Barbara Hurd (2003). “Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Visualize a beautiful rose in the center of your chest. Imagine a soft reddish rose. Imagine that the rose is completely folded up. Visualize the first set of petals is gradually unfolding.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Buddhism, Chakra Meditation

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• We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Laughing, Honor

  "Don't mock Tim Tebow" by William J. Bennett, www.cnn.com. December 6, 2011.

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• I exercise regularly. I eat moderate amounts of healthy food. I make sure to get plenty of rest. I see my doctor once a year and my dentist twice a year. I floss every night. I've had chest x–rays, cardio stress tests, EKGs and colonoscopies. I see a psychologist and have a variety of hobbies to reduce stress. I don't drink. I don't smoke. I don't do drugs. I don't have crazy, reckless sex with strangers. If Charlie Sheen outlives me, I'm gonna be really pissed.

  Chuck Lorre

  Sex, Stress, Crazy

  "Who Is Chuck Lorre, the Mysterious Producer Who Enraged Charlie Sheen?" By Meagan Murphy, www.foxnews.com. March 2, 2011.

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• The home should be the treasure chest of living.

  Le Corbusier

  Home, Treasure, Should

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• I myself will perhaps cry out with all the rest, looking at the mother embracing her child's tormentor: 'Just art thou, O Lord!' but I do not want to cry out with them. While there's still time, I hasten to defend myself against it, and therefore I absolutely renounce all higher harmony. It is not worth one little tear of even that one tormented child who beat her chest with her little fist and prayed to 'dear God' in a stinking outhouse with her unredeemed tears!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mother, Art, Children

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• Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can take you out of your mind. It is more deeply connected with the source of life than most humans, and that rootedness in Being transmits itself to you. Millions of people who otherwise would be completely lost in the conceptual reality of their mind are kept sane by living with an animal.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Dog, Cat, Animal

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “Eckhart Tolle's Findhorn Retreat: Stillness Amidst the World”, p.54, New World Library

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• The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest.

  Thomas Fuller

  Lying, Devil, Brooding

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• I didn't get nervous when I ran, but I get nervous watching other people now. I root for anybody with a USA on their chest.

  Gail Devers

  Usa, Roots, People

  "U.S. Olympic trials: Q&A with legacy athlete Gail Devers". Interview with Paul Buker, www.oregonlive.com. June 23, 2012.

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• Still today, I cannot cross the threshold of a teaching institution without physical symptoms, in my chest and my stomach, of discomfort or anxiety. And yet I have never left school.

  Jacques Derrida

  Teaching, School, Anxiety

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• This morning, Tegus welcomed me again with an arm clasp and cheek touch. I wasn't startled this time, and I breathed in at his neck. How can I describe the scent of his skin? He smells something like cinnamon-- brown and dry and sweet and warm. Ancestors, is it wrong for me to imagine laying my head on his chest and closing my eyes and breathing in his smell?

  Shannon Hale

  Sweet, Morning, Eye

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