Minefields Quotes - Page 2

• An interview is like a minefield.

  Michelle Williams

  Interviews

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• I can't say enough about the two Marine divisions. If I use words like 'brilliant,' it would really be an under description of the absolutely superb job that they did in breaching the so-called 'impenetrable barrier.' It was a classic- absolutely classic- military breaching of a very very tough minefield, barbed wire, fire trenches-type barrier.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Jobs, Military, Marine

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• Justin turned to give her one of his cool, unsmiling looks. Butterflies fluttered in her throat. She'd be very careful, Serena decided, as if she were walking through a minefield. "What are you thinking?" "About bombs," she answered blandly, "deadly camoflaged bombs." She gave him a quick,innocent grin. "Are we going to eat soon? I'm starving.

  Nora Roberts

  Butterfly, Thinking, Giving

  Nora Roberts (2012). “Playing the Odds: The MacGregors”, p.29, Penguin

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• Restaurants are minefields for the socially inept

  Graeme Simsion

  Restaurants

  Graeme Simsion (2014). “The Rosie Project: A Novel”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• I think my head's a minefield strewn with triggers, and maybe if I survive each explosion, what emerges from the wreckage will be me, really, truly me.

  Ann Aguirre

  Thinking, Wreckage, Explosions

  Ann Aguirre (2008). “Grimspace”, p.136, Penguin

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• Being a working person who works for the studios. It's a minefield and there's tons of stuff you need to know. And people mess it up all the time.

  Thomas Lennon

  People, Stuff, Needs

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I know that family life in America is a minefield, an economic trap for women, a study in disappointment for both sexes.

  Anne Roiphe

  Family, Sex, Disappointment

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• The borderline between prose and poetry is one of those fog-shrouded literary minefields where the wary explorer gets blown to bits before ever seeing anything clearly. It is full of barbed wire and the stumps of dead opinions.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Prose And Poetry, Fog, Wire

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.104, Grove Press

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• Some would assert that Providence was at work shaking out its pockets in Humanity's lap. Other would argue for that mindless choreographer, Chance. Either way it was a simple thing: a lost diary fell into the hands of a soul-sick war hero on a train from Bombay to Jaipur just when he'd grown tired of the scenery and needed something to keep his thoughts from the minefield of his wretched thoughts. In such mild ways is the groundwork laid for first kisses and ruined lives.

  Laini Taylor

  War, Hero, Tired

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• I decided years ago not to read stories about myself anymore. Each one is a potential minefield: Whatever it says, you're bound to take it the wrong way. Why do it if you know it's going to make you miserable?

  Bette Midler

  Years, Stories, Way

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