Across Quotes

#1. Then I flipped my hair across his face and said, Do you like my hair, baby? It's Winterfresh, like a mountain spring.

Cheyanne Young

#2. The full quote, if you've never come across it, is We

Anonymous

#3. Soon we were downloading ourselves
into laptops, phones or pads, freer
than we had hoped,

floating centrifugally across the Internet
to swim alongside forgotten
selfies, spam emails and porn

Cyril Wong

#4. Help is even being offered from across the ocean, as over two dozen countries have stepped forward to offer financial and material support to the American people.

Jo Bonner

#5. We live in a world so utterly infused with digitality that it makes even the slightest action ripple across the collection of data bases we call the web.

DJ Spooky

#6. I tried to do my bracelet up, but couldn't get the clasp to fasten, and before I tossed it across the room, Will grabbed my hand and fixed the silver clasp for me.
"Jesus, Mark, surely Batman can do up his own bracelets."
"Batman. Bat. Man, Will," I reminded him. "I'm not Magneto.

N.R. Walker

#7. Now and again in these parts you come across people so remarkable that, no matter how much time has passed since you met them, it is impossible to recall them without your heart trembling.

Nikolai Leskov

#8. Usually, I walk around and think about things. When I come across a thought that makes me laugh, I write it down.

Demetri Martin

#9. The messages pile up,
The worry knocks at
my door, louder & louder.
More calls from the therapist.
Pills that should have been
taken lie scattered across the floor.
The moon taps at my window.
Stars spell out their concern.

I pretend I do not see.

Darshana Suresh

#10. The night became silver again; looking up, it was as if they saw the moon sailing through the clouds instead of the other way around; racing smoothly across the sky, passing puffs and wisps of cloud on either side, and yet never moving from its place.

Susan Cooper

#11. I don't ever remember seeing a base runner who was all the way to third base run back across the mound. It was kind of a respectful thing.

Goose Gossage

#12. There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk across deserts or cycle across the Antarctic - like Ranulph Fiennes, who just does it because it's there. And then there are people like me, who are just genuinely curious about the world.

Michael Palin

#13. Wonder in everything No matter how great or small ... Same thing that's scrawled across the stars Is written under our skin ... There's a time to search for understanding Sometimes you just got to sing New horizons, new horizon within

David Gray

#14. Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#15. I can picture the way he looked, and recall the weather, and the play of light across his stubbled face, but that virgin moment is impossible to recapture.

Hannah Kent

#16. Oh, Mr. Take-My-Cock-Not-His." I spit out my coffee and watch a smirk spread across her face. "I must admit it was kind of hot.

River Savage

#17. If you want to get your point across, you gotta cuss.

Eazy-E

#18. What, playing with cards?" "It's a special kind of playing," said Twoflower. "It's called - " he hesitated. Language wasn't his strong point. "In your language it's called a thing you put across a river, for example," he concluded, "I think.

Terry Pratchett

#19. When you speak, your words echo across the room. When you write, your words echo across the ages" Bud Gardner

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Claire Hamelin Manning

#20. The sunset was really over, but a thunderously deep stain of red still lay across the furthest limit of the western sky. I looked out to it for a moment. Skye was somewhere out there, more felt than seen.

Iain Banks

#21. This is what labels do. They stick. If people think you're MAD, then everything you do, everything you think, will have MAD stamped across it.

Nathan Filer

#22. He's as tall as the door, and I'm standing here without remembering the walk across the shadowed parking lot. When he turns to face me the world grinds into slow motion. Even my heartbeat draws out interminably.

Poppet

#23. If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read President Can't Swim.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#24. I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals, when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#25. Anytime Facebook wants to change how it might use all that data about you, in any way, across any service it has within the Facebook ecosystem, all it has to do is change one privacy policy, tell you about it, and that's that.

John Battelle

#26. Bakhchisaray was formerly the capital of the Crimean khanate and once an important crossroad of the Silk Road, where traders met from across the Black Sea, the steppes of Central Asia, Russia, and eastern Europe.

Tim Cope

#27. Just then Rosie skipped down the stairs and across the lobby. Rosie never walked - she tripped or skipped or danced.

Barbara Cohen

#28. One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.

Karl Kraus

#29. Time passes and the pain begins to roll in and out as though it's a woman standing at an ironing board, passing the iron back and forth, back and forth across a white tablecloth.

Audrey Niffenegger

#30. The Angel of Death was nothing special to look at: it had manifested itself today as a plate of someone's finished meal of bacon and eggs. Egg yolk was smeared across the white plate. Inside this smear were scattered bread crumbs.

Jonathan Carroll

#31. Everyday the sun rolls by
Across the sky and through night's door
Every night the stars light high
Above the Earth and shine once more
Any day her boat might fly
Across the waves and to the shore

Ally Condie

#32. I stared up at the ebbing quarter moon and the stars scattered like a handful of salt across the faraway sky ...

Billy Collins

#33. I don't add any deliberate nuances to the way I sing. I've seen so much and been all over the world, but I'm glued to my roots, and that comes across.

Kailash Kher

#34. There, scuttling across the floor, blind and querulous, is the old cell phone - scrabbling and bulky, trying to get away from you.

Jeff VanderMeer

#35. At the end of our lives, we step across the threshold or death and enter into a new and better world. I believe that. It's just that simple.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#36. Devolving APD to Scotland is merely tinkering with it. We have to get shot of this hated tax right across the country to ensure all of our airports are competing on level terms.

Brian Donohoe

#37. She looked out across the water and allowed the feeling of longing to wash over her, spill into the crevices of her soul, and fill her completely.

Elizabeth Fama

#38. The hood burnt my ass."
Gavin smirked and pulled his T-shirt over his head. He spread it out across the hood, picked Emily back up, and set her on top of it. "And here I was thinking your ass couldn't get any hotter.

Gail McHugh

#39. The hot west wind that blew like sand whispering across stone.

Steven Erikson

#40. Some people's theologies come across as blatantly wrong when weighed against what is revealed in Scripture. However God has mercy on those who may be wrong but genuinely seek understanding before seeking themselves.

Criss Jami

#41. Al Jazeera is one entity that everyone across the Arab world watches. Arabs are proud of that.

Jehane Noujaim

#42. A woman stood on the sidewalk, her arms outstretched and her face turned to the sky. Sheer enjoyment splashed across her features, its intensity tugging at his heart. It was a raw emotion he rarely witnessed.

Cheryl Sterling

#43. Most people would accept that people come to London from across the world, from all kinds of backgrounds, and are accepted here irrespective of their origins.

Boris Johnson

#44. The new Babylonian captivity is what we have done to ourselves, namely, the strange fascination with our contemporary culture evident across denominational and confessional lines.

Harold L. Senkbeil

#45. Sometimes I just want to paint the words "It's my fault" across my forehead to save people the time of being pissed off at me.

Christina Westover

#46. I like to feel sexy. I know my husband thinks I'm sexy. I think he is too. But I don't go out half-naked with 'sex' written across my back.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

#47. Quite frankly, the Urban brand organization became too siloed, with too little communication across functional areas. The great creativity that has been the hallmark of our success became stifled.

Richard Hayne

#48. I'm a Virgo and the sign is a virgin. So when I was 16, I got the word virgin tattooed on my wrist, thinking I was sooo deep and cool. And now I just look really weird having virgin written across my wrist and I have to explain it.

Nicole Richie

#49. Human beings are strange creatures. As people come across one another they produce various outcomes. Good things, sometimes. And other times, bad.

Natsuki Takaya

#50. Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.

Maelle Gavet

#51. I started my teenage years singing in churches across America, and finally wound up on a big stage.

Amy Grant

#52. These words came, quite clear, like small, evil people, across the cobbles to Branza's ankles, where they stood and smirked up at her.

Margo Lanagan

#53. Realizations are strange things. They are composed outside of the conscious self, they are the ends of paths we cannot tread in our waking minds, and for this reason, the most shocking realizations may stab across one's mind, and yet be gone in an instant, fleeting, known-and-unknown.

Moira Katson

#54. They passed lands that had no name, where fens of mirror pools stretched into unknown distances, thousands of fragments of sky sprinkled across this bastard offspring of earth and sea, lonely birds calling out over the desolation, and Yarvi breathed deep the salt chill and longed for home.

Joe Abercrombie

#55. Even the leftover carats of tar in the gutter, so black they seemed to suck
the light out of the air.
By nightfall kids had come across them: every sidewalk on the block was
scribbled with obscenities and hearts.

C. K. Williams

#56. He lay down beside the fawn. He put one arm across its neck. It did not seem to him that he could ever be lonely again.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#57. Across the world, the lack of accountability for the harm to the environment and public health caused by conflict and military activities undermines global efforts to help fragile countries recover from armed conflicts

Widad Akreyi

#58. The fragment of coral, a tiny crinkle of pink like a sugar rosebud from a cake, rolled across the mat. How small, thought Winston, how small it always was!

George Orwell

#59. You've got to play with that killer instinct, man. You've got to hate that guy across from you. Then after the game is over, tell him what a nice guy he is. Shake his hand. Especially if you win.

Chuck Bednarik

#60. I'll be involved more with Adobe overall in terms of our technology direction and the problems we are trying to solve, working across the different business units at Adobe.

Kevin Lynch

#61. Dogs are dim creatures, do not speak to me of their good sense
have you ever heard of a team of tomcats hauling a sled across the frozen wastes?

John Banville

#62. I was happy about different things. I was happy because someday I'd be walking across this bridge looking at this city, owning some piece of it, being valuable here.

Ned Vizzini

#63. I'm not as good at showing my emotions as other girls, so it comes across like I don't care, even when I do. I like to keep things to myself.

Kiera Cass

#64. You can be known as the most beautiful woman
who ever crawled across cut glass to make a deal

Bob Dylan

#65. You don't have to be someone who likes walking a tightrope across the Twin Towers to watch 'Man On Wire.'

Asif Kapadia

#66. They had journeyed halfway across the world, and had rattled across eleven US states, through wide-open plains and busy railroad junctions. They had grown accustomed to new sights and sounds but nothing could have prepared them for their arrival in America's greatest city.

Claire Prentice

#67. I will carefully stand guard and if anyone tries to hurt someone in the camp again, I will carefully spill their guts across the wasteland floor and carefully wait for the vultures to feast on the remains.

C.J. Redwine

#68. You were good."

It was a very small compliment, but it came from someone who mattered, about something that mattered. I felt a smile spread across my face. "Really?

Leila Sales

#69. She strode across the moors as if distance was a personal insult.

Terry Pratchett

#70. I should have known that when men warn you to be careful, often they are warning you of the dark movie playing across their own brains.

Emma Cline

#71. I do think a founder has special permission to make sweeping changes across an organization.

Michael Dell

#72. Statues lined the stairs and stood, dotted across the roof. But they had been brutalized by time and the weather. Some were missing arms. Many had no faces. Once they had been saints and angels. Two hundred years standing in London had turned them into cripples.

Anthony Horowitz

#73. He pulled out his wallet and extracted a twenty-dollar bill, fastidiously folding it in half so that the crease cut across the face of Theodore Roosevelt, with its shining spectacles and its Chesire Cat grin.

Dexter Palmer

#74. I must warn you right here and now that I am a 'wet leftie,' a 'leftist' and also a member of the 'bleeding heart liberal left.' I had no say in it whatsoever. I woke up one morning, and these things were tattooed across my forehead.

Michael Leunig

#75. She wore a simple purple long-sleeved turtleneck, but streaks of white across her chest - flour perhaps? - distracted him, made him want to volunteer for cleanup duty.

Melissa McClone

#76. Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.

Karl Malone

#77. You okay?' Nate asked warily.
My fingers shook with the hangover as I leaned across my sink. 'I look like the Bride of Frankenstein with a massive hangover.'
'I'd be hungover too if I'd just had to fuck Frankenstein.

Samantha Young

#78. Jack made a pass at me, too. He thought my riding crop was alluring until I smacked him across the face with it."
"Good Grief," I said. "Is any woman safe from him?
"If I were Horace Malvern," said Emma, "I'd hide the cows.

Nancy Atherton

#79. I don't want to be a big star. I just want to get my message across.

Nneka

#80. Blood and bone spread across the hallway floor in a glorious, arching victory rainbow.

James J. Caterino

#81. It's just kind of a big deal, is all."
"Well, I'm kind of a big deal."
A smile spread across his face. "I can see that.

Gina Damico

#82. Negotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.

George Schultz

#83. And looked sharply across the street. There was only one house

Pearl S. Buck

#84. If this were a novel, I'd stop reading right now. I'd throw it across the room.

Gabrielle Zevin

#85. But sovereign debt is a wider question not only in Europe but across the globe. While every country is a unique case, I think it's not an issue of countries acting on their own. We need a more coordinated strategy not only in Europe but around the world.

George Papandreou

#86. Youth wasn't like the skin of a snake that you sloughed off and never saw again but rather a feeling that you tuck away because you think you don't need it any more and it's only when you come across it by accident that you realise just how much fun it really is

Mike Gayle

#87. Layers are not difficult for me. You have the luxury of takes, so if you feel like, say, you did not take in the fact that your aunt is across the way in one take, you do it again and try to add that piece.

Gillian Anderson

#88. My heart stole back across wide wastes of years To One who wandered by a lonely sea, And sought in vain for any place of rest: 'Foxes have holes, and every bird its nest. I, only I, must wander wearily, And bruise my feet, and drink wine salt with tears.' Poem:

Oscar Wilde

#89. We had hoped to have been bringing you Arthur the Human Chameleon, but this afternoon, he crawled across a tartan rug and died of exhaustion.

Ronnie Barker

#90. Don't fear to pledge. By winds the perjuries of love Are blown, null and void, across the land and farthest seas.

Tibullus

#91. There really is a place where kisses taste like apple pie and where stars spill like sugar across the sky.

Nina Lane

#92. Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.

Christian Wiman

#93. With the Internet, we can communicate instantly across the globe, but the net also makes it possible for us to shrink ever further into our own skins - a state of being that neither suits the human temperament nor provides ground for further growth.

Mariella Frostrup

#94. People across America who value bicycling should have a voice when it comes to transportation planning. This is the end of favoring motorized transportation at the expense of non-motorized.

Ray LaHood

#95. I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.

Forest Whitaker

#96. Nothing got more serious than allowing a tortoise to crawl across your kitchen floor.

J. Lynn

#97. arrowed south through thick forest, then into the water before adrenaline stopped beating the fuck out of his heart. Slogging across the narrow inlet in full gear kept the fury building. The

Toni Anderson

#98. When I was a young man in the 1970s, tech firms were scattered across the developed world. Since then, America has come to dominate tech almost totally.

Kenneth Fisher

#99. Each time somebody working for the Maison has a baby, the atelier creates miniature blouses-blanches, exactly like the ones we wear, with the child's name embroidered across the front. That is our welcome-to-this-world gift.

Martin Margiela

#100. NOW, MY BRETHREN!" Poseidon's voice was so loud I wasn't sure if I was hearing it from the smoke image or from all the way across town. "STRIKE FOR OLYMPUS!

Rick Riordan