Crunching Quotes

#1. The sound of snapping twigs and crunching footsteps echoed nearer.

Jessica Sorensen

#2. The summer of the gypsy moths when all the trees in their yard were bare, the leaves chewed by caterpillars. You could hear crunching in the night. You could see silvery cocoon webbing in porch rafter and strung across stop signs.

Alice Hoffman

#3. Computing technology started out as number-crunching.

Ramez Naam

#4. Unquestioning automatons
blindly marching to the beat -
an eerie crunching sound
hoards of shuffling feet ...
(from silent moments)

Muse

#5. The earl slowly pivoted to face her, the crunching of his boots in the gravel drive loud in the stillness. They stood only a few feet distant. He took a step, his beautiful, heavy-lidded eyes intent on her face.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#6. I wished to no longer hear the grayed bones crunching underneath the brush or feel the now inexorable fear that seemed to work its way inside my rib cage, rocking me at my core.

Anna Carey

#7. The word just hangs, until Severin starts the blender and there's only the sound of crunching and grinding vitamins, the silvery core of nourishment, containing every essential thing but the nourishment itself. (pg. 82)

Deb Caletti

#8. What's most troubling about this witless mishmash of whiny, infantile philosophizing and bone-crunching violence is the increasing realization that it actually thinks it's saying something of significance.

Kenneth Turan

#9. There are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home.

Jon McGregor

#10. The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

George Bernard Shaw

#11. Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.

Boris Pasternak

#12. Life is singing also in the sand crunching under the slow and heavy steps of the guards, when we know how to listen to it.

Rosa Luxemburg

#13. I set out to create chips that used low-energy technology, and that has allowed me to develop devices that can do all their data crunching on site.

Chris Toumazou

#14. This is the sort of thing we should say by the fireside in the winter-time, as we lie on soft couches after a good meal, drinking sweet wine and crunching chickpeas: Of what country are you, and how old are you, good sir? And how old were you when the Mede came?

Herodotus

#15. Love isn't something you can find by focusing harder or by crunching numbers or making radical changes to how you go about things. Public

Hodder Moa

#16. She couldn't tell how long she'd been searching for her daughter.
It was dusk, but it had seemed darker as she ran through the wood, tripping on hooked tree roots, her feet crunching through crisp, curled ash leaves.

Sanjida Kay

#17. Do you have a name?" asked Gerta. "I do," said the raven. Gerta waited. The raven fluffed its beard. "I am the Sound of Mouse Bones Crunching Under the Hooves of God."

T. Kingfisher

#18. Bobby pins crunching under my feet, I walk through, surveying the damaged girlness.

Megan Abbott

#19. I know I need to face the facts, and remain strong to extricate myself from this hideous situation, but not yet. I figure I'm owed at least one day to indulge my self-pity. One day to wallow in despair. To give into the soul-crunching heart-stomping pain ripping me to shreds on the inside.

Siobhan Davis

#20. Why pizza delivery?" he says. "It makes people happy." Plus, Sugoi's gourmet selection includes deep fried pigs' brains, and I only pick off a few pieces. "Does it make you happy?" says Prentice. It does when I'm crunching deep fried brain.

T.W. Brown

#21. I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must.

David Neeleman

#22. We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers.

Dustin Diamond

#23. But I'm not afraid of the skeletons in Julie's closet. I look forward to meeting the rest of them, looking them hard in the eye, giving them firm, bone-crunching handshakes.

Isaac Marion

#24. Leaves in every shade of the autumn spectrum - red, yellow, orange, brown - littered the ground at my feet, crunching beneath my boots as I stepped out of the car and looked around.

Kristi Cook

#25. Heart ring in the night; Lights shine from your eyes - Marble crunching the snow.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#26. But the thing that really convinces me that the apocalypse is here is the crunching of smartphones under my feet.

Susan Ee

#27. Saying this is bad is like saying traffic is bad, or health-care surtaxes, or the hazards of annular fusion: nobody but Ludditic granola-crunching freaks would call bad what no one can imagine being without.

David Foster Wallace

#28. As a kid, he would have given just about anything to touch a naked Barbie, but he'd never been lucky enough to get within ogling distance. Now that he was afforded a good look at her, he discovered she had a scrawny ass and her knees made weird crunching sounds.

Rachel Gibson

#29. Tires roared. The car lurched forward ... crunching ... a bright light ... yellow eyes ... then blackness.

Jessica Sorensen

#30. South Africa is such a fraught place to live. The anxiety about crime, the crunching on racial eggshells, the juxtaposition of First World materialism with Third World squalor.

Rory Carroll

#31. Sometimes Republicans engage in number-crunching analysis that doesn't always take the neediest into account.

Susana Martinez