Crossings Quotes

#1. Driving in Olathe was likewise an exercise in patience. Going anywhere often involved waiting at railroad crossings as a long freight train passed. David

Marek Fuchs

#2. Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs

Jerome Stern

#3. ... zebra crossings were rather like Bosnia's "safe zones": places where, if you die, you may simply die with the knowledge that your killer was in the wrong.

Lucy Wadham

#4. As a co-chair of the State's 2010 Olympics Task Force, I am working to make sure our border crossings are ready to handle the risks and benefits the Games will bring.

Rick Larsen

#5. The border is a marketplace. The invisible hand of the powerful governs the crossings.

Amitava Kumar

#6. I do believe deeply that all human beings, male and female, are sexual beings, most likely bisexual beings channeled this way and that by cultures terrified of boundary crossings without passports stamped gay or straight.

Robin Morgan

#7. Do they think that, if left to our own devices, we'd all park on zebra crossings for a year? If they do, it means they don't trust us. And if they don't trust us, then the relationship has broken down and it's time for some civil unrest.

Jeremy Clarkson

#8. The Obama administration has issued numerous orders essentially suspending deportations, prompting a major spike in illegal crossings.

Aaron Klein

#9. I almost choke on my popcorn when I hear film stars, who walk on red carpets as much as the rest of us do on zebra crossings, criticising youngsters who crave fame.

Julie Burchill

#10. How often have I painted a splendid picture of a journey marked by courageous ascents and daring desert crossings when all along all I've really been doing is running?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#11. As he left the room it seemed to him that he was walking between two eternities, on one side a list of the living, with its inevitable crossings-out, on the other - eternal exile. Eternal as the stars, as the galaxies.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#12. Longhand isn't well suited to my way of writing. I tend to end up with dozens of pages of crossings-out and margin scribbles just to find one good paragraph, and it's easy to lose your train of thought, working like that.

Steven Hall

#13. Directly beneath the Lotus Pond of Paradise lay the lower depths of Hell, and as He peered through the crystalline waters, He could see the River of Three Crossings and the Mountain of Needles as clearly as if He were viewing pictures in a peep-box.

Ryunosuke Akutagawa

#14. He grinned. "You realise I'm reporting for duty on the second of January?"
"Good. Then the last memory you'll have of me is wearing a party frock and knocking back cocktails while I kick old 1914 right in the teeth. Let's send it off in style.
(Delilah and Johnny)

Deanna Raybourn

#15. The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.

Henry Adams

#16. Religion is best when it points beyond itself, like Isaiah or John the Baptist. It is worst when it gives you just enough of the forms to inoculate you against the substance, when it substitutes rituals for reality, the container for the contents, the wineskins for the ecstatic wine.

Richard Rohr

#17. Crossing barriers can be as simple as a smile.

Ron Kaufman

#18. He was silent. She hoped she'd injured his feelings - assuming he had feelings to injure in the first place.

Sherry Thomas

#19. ... the appearance of the third and youngest would hardly have been sufficient to characterize him; there was an uncribbed, uncabined aspect in his eyes and attire, implying that he had hardly as yet found the entrane to his professional groove.

Thomas Hardy

#20. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
Cross it? I'm making plans to destroy the bridge from orbit.
-Colonel Ceeta & Captain Tagon

Howard Tayler

#21. You smile, embarrassed to be a nice girl, and your nails are bare and your V-neck sweater is beige and it's impossible to know if you're wearing a bra but I don't think that you are.

Caroline Kepnes

#22. Your attitude to life is far more important in determining your happiness than your money, appearance, social status or talent.

Stephanie Dowrick

#23. I do hope after my crossing that more people will follow suit.

Roh Moo-hyun

#24. Courage is crossing a starting line.

Amby Burfoot

#25. One of life's most painful mysteries was that time moved on, with or without you. Those left behind loved and laughed and resumed living as if you'd never been at all.

Laura Frantz

#26. A symptom," Brendan said, as if love were a disease only humans could catch. But there was something like fondness or respect in his voice. "You're both fools.

Maggie Stiefvater

#27. I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen. And yes, I suppose I was interested in that story in the gap between memory itself, the real business of being alive, and the imagination.

Colm Toibin

#28. It's like you spend your whole youth being told just how awesome and special you are, but then you take one step outside and that bubble bursts.

R.E. Carr

#29. It is possible to stop the mental chatter, regain your emotional balance and live free of stress and anxiety when you create a new habit of daily energetic self-care using the four powerful tools in Nurturing Wellness through Radical Self-Care.

Janet Gallagher Nestor

#30. At lunch you order steamed vegetables because you're remembering that you have a heart too. You feel humbled by your heart, it works so hard. You want to thank it. You give your heart a little pat

Aimee Bender

#31. Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.

Brian Tracy

#32. If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.

James D. Watson

#33. She was a kept thing, shackled to a master who would never let her go, locked in a cage of dreams.

Heather Demetrios