Clotted Quotes

#1. And human love needs human meriting:
How has thou merited-
Of all man's clotted clay the dingiest clot?
Alack, thou knowest not
How little worthy of any love thou art!
Whom wilt thou find to love ignoble thee
Save Me, save only Me?

Francis G. Thompson

#2. After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with it's clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.

Mark Twain

#3. When you're writing stuff that's already clotted with neologisms and trying to get across fairly abstruse concepts, you're already putting a heavy burden on the reader.

Alastair Reynolds

#4. I am full of the milk of human kindness, damn it. My trouble is that it gets clotted so easily.

Gilbert Harding

#5. But when Lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish arts of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.

John Milton

#6. Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind.

Walter Lippmann

#7. Twice a week I would receive injections or IV's of Factor VIII which clotted the blood and then broke it down.

Ryan White

#8. My voice is clotted with unshed tears.

Sophie Kinsella

#9. Then you may have sheer clotted nonsense; I once chased Julius Caesar all over London to get his recipe for curried eggs.

Arthur Machen

#10. He considers it for a moment and spits out the seeds, which sprout, quickly, into tiny junkblossoms sizzling with recursive algorithms. The algorithms wriggle through thorny vines, veins of clotted pink juice.

Catherynne M Valente

#11. It is the fertile hallucination that makes paint so compelling. Paint is like the numerologist's numbers, always counting but never adding up, always speaking but never saying anything rational, always playing at being abstract but never leaving the clotted body.

James Elkins

#12. I had never been so extravagantly proud of having blood that clotted.

Rob Sheffield

#13. My knee struck a tree root as my vision went black. Suddenly, I was in a building at Haven Crest, kneeling on the floor. Blood, thick and clotted like canned cherries, crept down the walls. The lights above my head flickered off then on with a menacing hum.

Kady Cross

#14. If it had been touch, it might have been pressure-not an uncomfortable pressure, but one that swept away all the pain of her headache. Like a river rushing through her mind, clearing out everything stagnant and clotted and decayed.

L.J.Smith

#15. The long horizon, the lunging, clotted sea like a swinging door opening, closing, opening.

Annie Proulx

#16. And though the blood of Abel had once cried out from the Earth, we had come now to a time when so much blood had been spilled over the millennia that the throat of the Earth was clotted and choked, and fresh blood could not raise a voice from it.

Dean Koontz

#17. She had inherited a story that was strewn with corpses and clotted with enmity, and was only trying to stay alive in it.

Laini Taylor

#18. There are two kinds of photographs: mine and other people's. I never think of what I might do myself when I look at someone else's pictures ... there is no subject in the world I have ever wanted to photograph. It's the picture, not the object, that is important to me.

John Loengard

#19. Have the private emotions also their gutter presses?

E. M. Forster

#20. The whole art of flirting has simply disappeared. This probably will do further damage. If we're going to become so uptight that we can't say nice things to each other, then we've had it!

Letitia Baldrige

#21. Find I can get my point across a lot better writing them down

Kathryn Stockett

#22. Endeavour to play easy pieces well and with elegance; that is better than to play difficult pieces badly.

Robert Schumann

#23. A landscape clean and crisp in form and colour, rich in inspiration is all that an artist could wish for, begging to be used, and full of inherent possibilities ...

Franklin Carmichael

#24. Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp,

Tom Clancy

#25. There's an answer, if you reach into your soul, and the sorrow that you know will melt away.

Mariah Carey

#26. Would you like to swim, June-Bug?" "No. I hate anything to do with moving my muscles." He

Sadia Ash

#27. A crowd in its very concept is the untruth, by reason of the fact that it renders the individual completely impenitent and irresponsible, or at least weakens his sense of responsibility by reducing it to a fraction.

Soren Kierkegaard