Chinks's Quotes

#1. Old Barley might be as old as thee hills, and might swear like a whole field of troopers, but there were redeeming youth and trust and hope enough in Chinks's Basin to fill it to overflowing.

Charles Dickens

#2. Most people, however clever, however controlled, never hid it completely. There were chinks, clues, habits. At some point, the real person showed through the facade.

J.D. Robb

#3. If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

William Blake

#4. Come on now! You kick out the gooks, the next thing you know, you have to kick out the chinks, the spicks, the spooks, the kikes and all that's going to be left is a couple of brain-dead rednecks.

Robin Williams

#5. Ask courageous questions.
Do not be satisfied with superficial answers.
Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims to knowledge, without exception, to intense skeptical scrutiny.
Be aware of human fallibility.
Cherish your species and your planet.

Carl Sagan

#6. Adam Antonovich's father was a tubby tyrant with a triple chin and chinks where his eyes should have been. All his life he had amassed money. In old age he had exchanged it for space; his estates grew, grew and swelled.

("Adam")

Andrei Bely

#7. I don't deserve your heart, Maggie. I should never have drug you into this hell I live in. It's not fair to you. What kind of future can I give you when I don't know if I even have one?

A Meredith Walters

#8. As one Wharton dean explains, "The students call it Game Face: they feel pressured to look successful all the time. There can't be any chinks in their armor, and opening up would make them vulnerable.

Adam Grant

#9. At times I ask myself if I shouldn't be living a more regular, stable life with a 9-to-5 job. Then I think about it and realise that there is no point in planning everything.

Meredith Ostrom

#10. Technology is the idol of our age. The Bible describes the evils of worshipping things built by the hand of man. Back then, it was a simple statue, today it is far more insidious. And for every problem technology creates, we look to technology for solutions.

James Rozoff

#11. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,
Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made.

Edmund Waller

#12. We walked round the ruined garden twice or thrice more, and it was all in bloom for me. If the green and yellow growth of weed in the chinks of the old wall had been the most precious flowers that ever blew, it could not have been more cherished in my remembrance.

Charles Dickens

#13. We ought to keep all these foreigners out of the country, and what I mean, the Kikes just as much as the Wops and Hunkies and Chinks.

Sinclair Lewis

#14. You can put these things into the hands of some Chinese and send him to Hong Kong and we'll have cleared chinks.

L. Ron Hubbard

#15. Without a life example that speaks louder than words, even the most persuasive leader will fail.

John Dickson

#16. If you look close enough, you can see cracks in everything. And that's okay. Because when you really think about it, it's the cracks and gaps and chinks in things that let the light shine in.

D. Anne Love

#17. From the very first time she'd been able to find the chinks in his armor

Lisa Kleypas

#18. To vanish in the chinks that Time has made.

Samuel Rogers

#19. Bad luck doesn't have any chinks in it," he said with deep bitterness. "I was born a son of a bitch and I'm going to die a son of a bitch.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#20. Having long suspected that there was something alive in there, running the place, separate from everything else, absolutely individual and independent, we've celebrated by giving it a real name. My self.

Lewis Thomas

#21. The longest life is no more than a sliver of light between two boundless ribbons of dark, like the light you see through the chinks of a log cabin at sunrise. And that last ribbon of dark, the one that comes after you are gone, that one goes on until the end of time.

Jack Todd

#22. Nothing is so engaging as the little domestic cares into which you appear to be entering, and as to reading it is useful for onlyfilling up the chinks of more useful and healthy occupations.

Thomas Jefferson

#23. The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.

Henry David Thoreau

#24. They smell of all the baths they didnt take. The trouble with China is, there are too many chinks here.

L. Ron Hubbard

#25. The current tax code is a daily mugging.

Ronald Reagan

#26. Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It's a lesson I've had to relearn quite a few times.

Robert Kiyosaki

#27. At the chinks in the drawn blinds, daylight peered like a spy.

Ross Macdonald

#28. It might be high summer all about but inside me everything is fall. The lonesomeness of a sad, slow closing of days, knowing frost is nigh and wind needling through the cabin chinks is just around the bend. That's me, right now.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#29. Whatever cosmic attraction had drawn [Jess & Addie] to one another in the first place was beginning to fill in with the chinks and mortar of very real, very likeable human traits.

Bailey Bristol

#30. I have known Michael Richards for something like 20 years. We're friends.

Paul Mooney

#31. The trouble is that there are too many Chinks. When you kill a Chink he splits in half and becomes two Chinks.

Charles Bukowski

#32. Cold has a thousand ways of moving in the world: on the sea it gallops like a troop of horses, on the countryside it falls like a swarm of locusts, in the cities like a knife-blade it slashes the streets and penetrates the chinks of unheated houses.

Italo Calvino

#33. If we really believe the gospel we proclaim, we'll be honest about our own beauty and brokenness, and the beautiful broken One will make himself known to our neighbors through the chinks in our armor - and in theirs.

Fil Anderson

#34. I know how to make other women look beautiful: from hair to makeup to wardrobe. So, I feel that I have a gift with imaging, and that's kind of fundamental to the music video process.

Nia Long

#35. Night thoughts have a different color than day thoughts, a different slant, more than anything else they know all the secret paths and chinks in the armor they can take advantage of to force their way into consciousness.

Christa Wolf

#36. We all flow from one fountain.

John Muir