Brandishing Quotes

#1. Girls from my graduating class come into the store brandishing solitaire diamonds like Legion of Honor medals, as if they've accomplished something significant - which I guess they think they have, though all I can see is a future of washing some man's clothes stretching ahead of them.

Christina Baker Kline

#2. These days everyone was insisting on their identity, coming out as a man, woman, gay, black, Jew - brandishing whichever features they could claim, as if without a tag they wouldn't be human.

Hanif Kureishi

#3. I am a wizard, not a baboon brandishing a stick.

J.K. Rowling

#4. Who are ye talkin' aboot?" said the voice, just at my elbow. "HOLY SHIT ON A FUCKING STICK!" I yelled, jumping as far to my left as I could, brandishing my weapon out in front of me.

Elle Casey

#5. Brandishing sword and pistol, and flanked by several men, she managed to be sufficiently intimidating and the attackers had been frightened away.

Sylvia Day

#6. And then she said to herself, brandishing her sword at life, nonsense.

Virginia Woolf

#7. Art is too popular. If plumbing was as popular as art is we would have amateur plumbers running around brandishing wrenches and Roto-Rooters, climbing in and out of sewers and writing gibberish about pipe systems. And none of our our toilets would work.

Walter Darby Bannard

#8. Meralda opened her eyes. "I'm for a bath," she said. "Now, and Yvin be hanged."

Shingvere crowed. "At last, our battle cry," he said. "A bath, and the king be hanged!" he shouted, brandishing his fork. "Clean clothes, then victory!

Frank Tuttle

#9. Poirot was standing in the larder in a dramtic attitude. In his hand he was brandishing a leg of mutton.
'My dear Poirot! What is the matter? have you gone mad?'
'Regard i pray you this mutton! But regard it closely!

Agatha Christie

#10. Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!

Thomas Carlyle

#11. If you move to the West Coast, I will make a gun out of this," she said, drunkenly brandishing a tiny straw before searching the rest of the cluttered table, "and these peanuts and this glass and shoot you in the dick, Will."
I winced at the visual. "Wow-" I began.
"In the dick, Will.

Christina Lauren

#12. Luckily Rollan was more unflappable. He stepped forward, bravely brandishing his long dagger, however pathetic it looked compared to the teeth of Cabaro.

Eliot Schrefer

#13. Let me get this straight. you want me to go stomping through a graveyard brandishing a bottle of booze to rouse an unrestful spirit so that I can interrogate him? - Cat to Bones

Jeaniene Frost

#14. I can do most anything and not have a problem with it. The only time I have negative attention is when I run naked through the streets brandishing a handgun.

Janeane Garofalo

#15. Langdon turned to Sophie. "Who is that? What ... happened?"
Teabing hobbled over. "You were rescued by a knight brandishing an Excalibur made by Acme Orthopedic.

Dan Brown

#16. Bravery isn't brandishing a sword. It's standing your moral ground and letting others try their best to take you down.

Carla H. Krueger

#17. I don't really like people who go around brandishing the banner of justice. No matter the reason, where humans are involved there is no black or white, no justice or evil. There is only our will.

Jun Mochizuki

#18. Because getting a headset sweaty was kind of small potatoes compared to the fact that I was brandishing a machete at large raptors, while considering the pros and cons of hiring a pimp to dig up our dead dog.

Jenny Lawson

#19. The elevator doors opened to reveal a very large man brandishing a bloodstained antique phone receiver in a plastic bag and proclaiming, "I found this up him!"
"You know," said Tallow, "I really have no response to that.

Warren Ellis

#20. I just had this image of you brandishing the hot fire poker at Brad, and saying: 'Hello, my name is Carmen Winters. You killed my daughter. Prepare to die.'" A

Loretta Lost

#21. We must be quite the sight. Raffe in his red mask with his demon wings spread out in all their scythe-edged glory. A scrawny teenage Daughter of Man brandishing an archangel sword. And a little girl stitched-up to look and behave like a nightmare who is clutching a pair of angel wings.

Susan Ee

#22. When I was growing up, I didn't know anything existed outside the borders of Buffalo.

Cory Wells

#23. At the end of the street the sharp white needle of the church's steeple poked into the sky as if heaven were a big balloon that needed to be popped.

Wendy Wunder

#24. When everything went wrong at once, it felt like folding origami in a hurricane.

Lola Dodge

#25. Violet will carry he mark of Merlin's bloodline and she'll be able to wake The Lady from her slumber.

Allison Sipe

#26. O my son! The dunya (world) is a deep ocean in which many have drowned! Let your ship be taqwallah (fear of Allah), and load your ship with Iman-billah (believe in Allah), and let her sail be tawakkal (trust) on Allah! Insha'Allah you will survive then.

Luqman

#27. What's the matter with this country is the matter with the lot of us individually - our sense of personality is a sense of outrage ...

Elizabeth Bowen

#28. The world is a treadmill, and we are being pulled backward on it if we aren't consciously walking forward.

J. Grant Howard

#29. Then came October, full of merry glee.

Edmund Spenser

#30. Nothing keeps its promise.

Philip Roth

#31. You see, that's the fun of Buddhism. We do have a wild card in the deck that can't be explained, that changes value continuously, and that's enlightenment.

Frederick Lenz

#32. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.

Henry David Thoreau