Cropped Quotes

#1. The justification for rap rock seems to be that if you take really bad rock and put really bad rap over it, the result is somehow good, provided the raps are barked by an overweight white guy with cropped hair and forearm tattoos.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

#2. Eugenics, which had started long before my time, had once been defined as including free love and prevention of conception ... Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding.

Margaret Sanger

#3. Don't you need a fountain of love that won't run dry? You'll find one on a stone-cropped hill outside Jerusalem's walls where Jesus hangs, cross-nailed and thorn-crowned. When you feel unloved, ascend this mount. Meditate long and hard on heaven's love for you.

Max Lucado

#4. I was a tomboy as a kid - I was skinny and had cropped hair and was often mistaken for a boy - and up until I was about six, I had my own very fluid ideas of gender in that I believed that, somehow, an individual could choose whether or not s/he wanted to be a boy or a girl.

Elizabeth Hand

#5. Too flowery. Too short. Too pink." [Ciara] went through all her outrageously feminine, frilly, and sometimes almost see-through tops and I shot each one down. "Too cropped. Too rufflely. Too strappy. That's still pink. Not enough shirt." - Andy

H.R. Willaston

#6. Jenna swallowed the lump in her throat. "Good evening, gentlemen."
"You'll be hard pressed to find a gentleman in this bunch," a forty-something guy with close-cropped white hair said, laughing.
She walked closer to the group and held out her hands in apology. "Sorry, didn't mean to offend.

Aria Kane

#7. 'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.

Edward Moore

#8. Watched the close-cropped, long-legged policeman with the bad back stride quickly out of the canteen.

Jo Nesbo

#9. She was a thin woman in a mustard-yellow suit, with a yellowish complexion, short-cropped rusty red hair, and a stiff posture. She reminded Reynie of a giant walking pencil.

Trenton Lee Stewart

#10. The Steppenwolf, however, first threw up his sharp, closely cropped head and sniffed around nervously before he either made any answer or announced his name. "Oh, it smells good here," he said, and at that he smiled and my aunt smiled too.

Hermann Hesse

#11. I worked with someone else's photos; I cropped them in whatever way I wanted and put words on top of them. I knew how to do it with my eyes closed. Why couldn't that be my art?

Barbara Kruger

#12. If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don't carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.

Phillip C. McGraw

#13. Storm returns with close-cropped hair the color of corn silk and a new swagger.

Rae Carson

#14. The Samuel Josephs were not a family. They were a swarm. The moment you entered the house they cropped up and jumped out at you from under the tables, through the stair rails, behind the doors, behind the coats in the passage. Impossible to count them: impossible to distinguish between them.

Katherine Mansfield

#15. In my world, even sure bets are not certain;
'Cause you'll get the picture, then find out it's the cropped version.

Joe Budden

#16. Nahum bobbed again. 'My crest is cropped by croaking cranes. I go to drown in doleful dumps, dead-drunk with drearihead.

John Bellairs

#17. For the last time, you cannot wear that cropped fleece vest

Julie Andrews

#18. Their tunics bloodbright in a lampglow, black sockets of caps on their blond cropped polls.

James Joyce

#19. Jewishness cropped up and has never successfully been put down since.

P. J. O'Rourke

#20. From a wine critic's perspective, there are far too many innocuous, over-oaked, over-acidified, or over-cropped wines emerging from California. While those sins would not be a problem if the wines sold for under $20, many are in fact $75-$150. That's appalling.

Robert M. Parker Jr.

#21. The dead leaves fly. They're cropped and gathered to the rich barn of the earth.

Jim Crace

#22. Unlike Ronan, Adam's Aglionby jumper was second-hand, but he'd taken great care to be certain it was impeccable. He was slim and tall, with dusty hair unevenly cropped above a fine-boned, tanned face. He was a sepia photograph.

Maggie Stiefvater

#23. The problem of defining exactly what is meant by the signal velocity, which cropped up as long ago as 1907, has not been solved.

Hans Christian Von Baeyer

#24. He was a horse of goodly countenance, rather expressive of vigilance than fire; though an unnatural appearance of fierceness was thrown into it by the loss of his ears, which had been cropped pretty close to his head.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#25. I firmly believe that if members of Congress fail to perform their most basic duty in passing a budget, then they do not deserve to be paid.

Kurt Schrader

#26. I cut out construction paper feathers and taped them on my arms so I can fly! Pretty neat, huh?

Bill Watterson

#27. When I was studying in secondary school, a teacher recommended me during a singing contest. I took the championship because of my voce that I take proud of. Then I thought maybe my voice is not bad,then I wanted to be a singer.

Daesung

#28. She was still on the fall down. There was no getting up, because there was no bottom.

Sarah J. Maas

#29. We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

Peter De Vries

#30. Actually, you are destined to reach the point where you realise that through your own desire you can consciously create your successive destinies

Neville Goddard

#31. As preachers of the gospel of Jesus, do not expect worldly honors: these Jesus Christ neither took to himself, nor gave to his disciples.

Adam Clarke

#32. It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.

Bram Stoker

#33. Hanna Krall's book Shielding the Flame drew on the experience of Dr. Marek Edelman, who before he died in 2009 was the sole survivor of the five-person command that led the April 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Chris Hedges