Pairs Quotes - Page 19

• Is Bliss then, such Abyss, I must not put my foot amiss For fear I spoil my shoe? I'd rather suit my foot Than save my Boot -- For yet to buy another Pair is possible, At any store -- But Bliss, is sold just once. The Patent lost None buy it any more --

  Emily Dickinson

  Shoes, Feet, Patents

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.601, Delphi Classics

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• Down the hall came the wife. She was glorious, burning. She didn't know yet that her husband was dead. We knew. That's what gave her such power over us. The doctor took her into a room with a desk at the end of the hall, and from under the closed door a slab of brilliance radiated as if, by some stupendous process, diamonds were being incinerated in there. What a pair of lungs! She shrieked as I imagined an eagle would shriek. It felt wonderful to be alive to hear it! I've gone looking for that feeling everywhere.

  Denis Johnson

  Husband, Doctors, Doors

  "'What a Pair of Lungs!': Denis Johnson’s Ecstatic American Voice" by Philip Gourevitch, www.newyorker.com. May 27, 2017.

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• There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heaven to me as the blue had never done

  E. Nesbit

  Eye, Blue, Heaven

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• I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.

  T. S. Eliot

  Should Have, Sea, Silent

  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 73 (1917)

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• You really want to know what being an X-Man feels like? Just be a smart bookish boy of color in a contemporary U.S. ghetto. Mamma mia! Like having bat wings or a pair of tentacles growing out of your chest.

  Junot Diaz

  Smart, Ghetto, Boys

  "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao". Book by Junot Diaz, ew.com. September 6, 2007.

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• On game shows, some people will take the trip to France, but most people will take the washer and dryer pair.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Games, People, France

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• No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Degrees, You Like It

  William Shakespeare (1819). “The Plays of Shakspeare: Printed from the Text of Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, and Isaac Reed ; in Two Volumes”, p.267

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• Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Children, Shoes, Feet

  Flannery O'Connor (1971). “The Complete Stories”, p.459, Macmillan

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• It is funny the things that run through your mind when you're sitting in your underpants in front of a pair of strangers.

  David Sedaris

  Running, Mind, Sitting

  David Sedaris (2010). “When You Are Engulfed In Flames”, p.74, Hachette UK

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• Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don't know whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or on a peak until you're coming down. And that's it you know, you never know what's round the corner. But it's all good. "If you want the rainbow, you've gotta put up with the rain." Do you know which "philosopher" said that? Dolly Parton. And people say she's just a big pair of tits.

  Ricky Gervais

  Rain, Climbing, People

  "Fictional character: David Brent". "The Office". Season 2, Episode 6: "Interview", November 04, 2002.

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• Only one pair was still battling, apparently unaware of the new arrival. Harry saw Sirius duck Bellatrix's jet of red light: he was laughing at her. 'Come on, you can do better than that!' he yelled, his voice echoing around the cavernous room. The second jet of light hit him squarely in the chest. The laughter had not quite died from his face, but his eyes widened in shock.

  J. K. Rowling

  Laughter, Eye, Light

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• I don't believe in god, so I don't have to make elaborately sounded structures. ... Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you. ... As for measure and other technical apparatus, that's just common sense: if you're going to buy a pair of pants you want them to be tight enough so everyone will want to go to bed with you. There's nothing metaphysical about it.

  Frank O'Hara

  Pain, Believe, Common Sense

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• Our stares connected and we were quiet for a long minute, united by our misery. At least he understood me and I understood him. "A fine pair we make,” he said. "Yeah.

  Ilona Andrews

  Long, Misery, Quiet

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.220, Penguin

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• I am dying a thousand cruel and unusual deaths as fifty pairs of eyes take me in, size me up like something that should be hanging over a fireplace in a gentleman's den.

  Libba Bray

  Eye, Gentleman, Dying

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Why don't I just give you a pair of my panties to hang around your neck? Then whenever you feel jealous, you can wave them at whoever's pissing you off.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Jealous, Giving, Necks

  Jeaniene Frost (2010). “One Foot in the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel”, p.130, Hachette UK

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• It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with itself, both affected by the same amorous or funereal immobility, at the very heart of the moving world: they are glued together, limb by limb, like the condemned man and the corpse in certain tortures; or even like those pairs of fish (sharks, I think, according to Michelet) which navigate in convoy, as though united by an eternal coitus.

  Roland Barthes

  Moving, Heart, Men

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• Years on end, and swords on end - where will it end, if our ears unbend - what shall I spend on a wrinkled friend in a pair of tights like a bunch of lights?

  Mervyn Peake

  Light, Years, Tights

  Mervyn Peake (2007). “Titus Groan”, p.239, The Overlook Press

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• ...Right now there's a pair of bad cops on their way out here to shoot me." "You don't know that." "Yeah, you're right," Stranahan said. "They're probably just collecting Toys for Tots. Now go.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Way, Toys, Cop

  Carl Hiaasen (2010). “Skin Tight”, p.214, Penguin

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• To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.

  Henry Miller

  Song, Guitar, Singing

  Henry Miller, Norman Mailer (1976). “Genius and lust: a journey through the major writings of Henry Miller”, Grove Press

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• And I thought about the color and I realized what blue it was. It was the soft and changeable, essential blue of a well-worn pair of pants. Pants = Love

  Ann Brashares

  Blue, Color, Essentials

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• You know everyone loves to hate a happy pair of lovebirds.

  Lauren Kate

  Hate, Fallen, Lovebirds

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.304, Delacorte Press

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• Corrigan told me once that Christ was quite easy to understand. He went where He was supposed to go. He stayed where He was needed. He took little or nothing along, a pair of sandals, a bit of a shirt, a few odds and ends to stave off the loneliness. He never rejected the world. If He had rejected it, He would have been rejecting mystery. And if He rejected mystery, He would have been rejecting faith.

  Colum McCann

  Loneliness, Odds, World

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.18, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Kevin stopped where he was and stood there simply gazing at her. Molly sat cross-legged in the meadow with the sun shining on her bare shoulders and a pair of yellow butterflies fluttering like hair bows around her head. She was all the dreams he'd lost at dawn-dreams of everything he hadn't understood he needed until now. She was his playmate, his confidante, the lover who made his blood rush. She was the mother of his children and the companion of his old age. She was the joy of his heart.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Mother, Dream, Children

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• There are women in my closet, hanging on the hangers. a different woman for each suit, each dress, each pair of shoes. I hoard clothes. My makeup spills from the bathroom drawers, and there are different women for different lipsticks.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Makeup, Shoes, Clothes

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• Then you will simply have to see for yourself. Touch me, lass. Feel my ...sock." His silver gaze sizzled with challenge, as he unzipped his zipper. Uh-uh." She shook her head for added emphasis. Then find me a pair of trews that doona threaten to sever my manparts.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Zippers, Challenges, Silver

  Karen Marie Moning (2008). “Kiss of the Highlander”, p.95, Dell

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