Wet Quotes - Page 24

• He wasn't that good looking, he had the social skills of a wet cat and the patience of a caffeinated hummingbird

  Karen Chance

  Cat, Skills, Looking Good

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.1203, Penguin

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• The born-yesterday French-besotted faddists, addicted sniffers of wet printer's ink, think they're starting on the ground floor; so they're condemned to another hundred years of trial and error. The rest of us can safely ignore them.

  Camille Paglia

  Thinking, Errors, Years

  "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf". Arion, Third Series, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 1991.

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• Then he read the words of the scroll slowly, first in Japanese and then carefully translated into English: 'There is really nothing you must be. And there is nothing you must do. There is really nothing you must have. And there is nothing you must know. There is really nothing you must become. However. It helps to understand that fire burns, and when it rains, the earth gets wet. . . .' 'Whatever, there are consequences. Nobody is exempt,' said the master.

  Robert Fulghum

  Rain, Fire, Earth

  Robert Fulghum (1992). “It was on fire when I lay down on it”, Random House Inc

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• His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Lonely, Truck, Saliva

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Tell-All”, p.16, Random House

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• She wouldn't let go of the letter. She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up in a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Letting Go, Snow, Balls

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.50, e-artnow

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• Dead or not, you must be bored with women telling you how you look like the hottest, most exotic wet dream they’ve ever had. No wonder the thought of you, grapes, and some scented massage oils crossed my mind – and if you drop that towel again, I’m going to need a cold shower.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Dream, Oil, Bored

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• The Girl With Many Eyes One day in the park I had quite a surprise. I met a girl who had many eyes. She was really quite pretty (and also quite shocking!) and I noticed she had a mouth, so we ended up talking. We talked about flowers, and her poetry classes, and the problems she'd have if she ever wore glasses. It's great to know a girl who has so many eyes, but you really get wet when she breaks down and cries.

  Tim Burton

  Girl, Flower, Eye

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• Sometimes...you can cry until there's nothing wet in you. You can scream and curse to where your throat rebels and ruptures. You can pray, all you want, to whatever god you think will listen. And, still it makes no difference. It goes on, with no sign as to when it might release you. And you know that if it ever did relent...it would not be because it cared.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Thinking, Differences, Rebel

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• When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree: Be the green grass above me With showers and dewdrops wet: And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget. I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain; I shall not hear the nightingale Sing on as if in pain: And dreaming through the twilight That doth not rise nor set, Haply I may remember, And haply I may forget.

  Christina Rossetti

  Dream, Song, Pain

  "When I am dead, my dearest" l. 1 (1862)

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• And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.

  John Steinbeck

  Memories, Years, People

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.11, Penguin

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• The magician was studying her face with his green eyes. "Your face is wet," he said worriedly. "I hope that's spray. If you've become human enough to cry, then no magic in the world — oh, it must be spray. Come with me. It had better be spray.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Eye, Magic In The World, Green

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• the cold winds of insecurity... hadn't shredded the dreamy chrysalis of his childhood. He was still immersed in the dim, wet wonder of the folded wings that might open if someone loved him; he still hoped, probably, in a butterfly's unthinking way, for spring and warmth. How the wings ache, folded so, waiting; that is, they ache until they atrophy.

  Harold Brodkey

  Spring, Butterfly, Wind

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• i made myself a snowball As perfect as can be. I thought I'd keep it as a pet, And let it sleep with me. I made it some pajamas And a pillow for it's head. Then last night it ran away, But first - It wet the bed.

  Shel Silverstein

  Sleep, Night, Perfect

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• I could have waited years, now that I knew the end of the story. I was cold and wet and very happy. I could even look with charity towards the altar and the figure dangling there. She loves us both, I thought, but if there is to be a conflict between an image and a man, I know who will win. I could put my hand on her thigh or my mouth on her breast; he was imprisoned behind the altar and couldn't move to plead his cause.

  Graham Greene

  Moving, Winning, Men

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• So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Home, Air, Blue

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.136, Atlântico Press

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• He's out of his depth on a wet pavement.

  Terry Pratchett

  Depth, Pavement

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• It's a big enough umbrella, but it's always me that ends up getting wet.

  Sting

  Enough, Umbrella, Ends

  Song: Every little thing she does is magic

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• Asparagus in a lean in a lean is to hot. This makes it art and it is wet weather wet weather wet

  Gertrude Stein

  Art, Weather, Asparagus

  Gertrude Stein (2014). “Tender Buttons: The Corrected Centennial Edition”, p.52, City Lights Publishers

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• The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.

  Ezra Pound

  Black, Crowds, Faces

  "In a Station of the Metro" l. 1 (1916)

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• For with my intuition I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a woman with his intelligence and sympathy, claiming her emotionally; then, when she began to claim in return, running away. And the better a woman was, the sooner he would begin to run. I knew this with my intuition, and yet I sat there in my dark room, looking at the hazed wet brilliance of the purple London night sky, longing with my whole being.

  Doris Lessing

  Running, Dark, Night

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• The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Dog, Humor

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.13, University of Georgia Press

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• You know the best thing about aeroplanes? Apart from the peanuts in little silver bags, I mean. It's looking out of the windows at the clouds and thinking maybe I could go walking in there. Maybe it's a special place where everything's okay. Sometimes I do go walking in the clouds but it's just cold and wet and empty. But when you look out of a plane it's a special world... and I like it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Mean, Thinking, Clouds

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• Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill.

  Warren Buffett

  Long, Snow, Important

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• Mars once was wet and fertile. It's now bone dry. Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know what happened on Mars so that we may prevent it from happening here on Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Mars, Dry, Earth

  Interview with Don Cohen, appel.nasa.gov. June 1, 2008.

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• The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the scream of fire engines, or the realization that today is the Monday which on Friday night was a comfortably long way off. A dog's wet nose is not strictly speaking the worst of the bunch, but it has it's own peculiar dreadfulness which connoisseurs of the ghastly and dog owners everywhere have come to know and dread. It's like having a small piece of defrosting liver pressed lovingly against you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Friday, Dog, Monday

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Moving Pictures: (Discworld Novel 10)”, p.231, Random House

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