Alternated Quotes

#1. He alternated between ignoring me and shooting me disdainful looks that clearly said Who is this ugly off-brand non-sorority girl ruining our homo-erotic bro-times?

Tina Fey

#2. The night sky alternated between black and bursts of colour. My stomach wanted food. My limbs wanted rest. My brain wanted sleep. My mind wanted oblivion.

Srijita Sarkar

#3. Snow was a wreck at dinner.
Which I might have enjoyed if I wasn't so desperate for him to stay.
Everything on his plate seemed to confuse him, and he alternated between staring at his food miserably and vacuuming it up because he was clearly ravenous.

Rainbow Rowell

#4. Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.

Laura Riding

#5. The three of them left the noodle shop and went to a nearby love hotel. It was on the edge of town, on a street where love hotels alternated with gravestone dealers.

Haruki Murakami

#6. The effects of the mescalin were already on the decline: but the flowers in the gardens still trembled on the brink of being supernatural, the pepper trees and carobs along the side streets still manifestly belonged to some sacred grove. Eden alternated with Dodona. Yggdrasil with the mystic Rose.

Aldous Huxley

#7. I alternated between attempting to make the easy look difficult and the difficult look easy, for this is the dual nature of men in the company of women.

Hugh Howey

#8. [T]he witch appears to have alternated between being a terrifying enemy who could bring ruin and death and a pathetic figure to be despised and insulted.

Robin Briggs

#9. Outrage alternated with a sweaty fear he had never before felt. Something, it seemed to him was being drained from him, leaving the body feeling like a very dry sponge, very light, completely at the mercy of sly toying gusts of wind.

Ayi Kwei Armah

#10. Work, alternated with needful rest, is the salvation of man or woman.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

#11. Finally, she took him in, all wet and sexy beneath her.
Every breath and groan echoed over the water. She alternated her gaze from the stars in heaven to the rock star that was currently her heaven.

Lisa Gillis

#12. The problem with Double Fantasy was the arrangement whereby they alternated John Lennon tracks with Yoko Ono tracks. You couldn't escape Yoko for more than four minutes at a time.

Adrian McKinty

#13. Since muscular contractions are usually more or less regularly alternated with relaxations, the system of valves makes of the veins of every muscle a very effective pump, capable of maintaining a low pressure in the muscle capillaries.

August Krogh

#14. Food sacred to the manes or to the gods must be given to a man distinguished by sacred knowledge, for hands, smeared with blood, cannot be cleansed with blood.

Guru Nanak

#15. Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. Every era casts cancer in its own image.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#17. The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.

Carl Jung

#18. New hair and clothes don't change ugly.

Kelly Moran

#19. Was I in here last night and did I spend a $20 bill?
Oh, thank goodness ... I thought I'd lost it.

W.C. Fields

#20. A masterful retreat is itself a victory.

Norman Vincent Peale

#21. I move we get more wine,' Alistair said. 'What does the panel think?' ...
It was obvious that the entire war could be solved in this way. The trick would be to reach for a corkscrew instead, every time some brass hat ordered artillery.

Chris Cleave

#22. America has abandoned the strong woman of spirituality and is shacking up with the harlot of materialism.

Joseph Losey