Distended Quotes

#1. I hadn't grasped how days could be at once long and short. Long, no doubt, as periods to live through, but so distended that they ended up by overlapping on each other. In fact, I never thought of days as such; only the words 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still kept some meaning.

Albert Camus

#2. Patricia could see Remy dead. Her perfect corpse floating face down in the Oaxacan tiled infinity pool, her flawless stomach distended with decomposition gases, eyes fixed and dilated.

Shannon Bradley-Colleary

#3. The little girl's face was from Will's vilest nightmares. Cavernous mouth, distended chin, bastardized nose. The enormous, bulging eyes glared at Will, demanded he see the truth, commanded him to acknowledge his sin.

Kevin Wallis

#4. Time, the ultimate grandmaster that could never be checkmated. There was no way out of its distended belly.

Rohinton Mistry

#5. They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.

William S. Burroughs

#6. Individuals we consider happy commonly seem complete in the present and we see them constantly in their wholeness: attentive, cheerful, open rather than closed to events, integral in the moment rather than distended across time by regret or anxiety.

Robert Grudin

#7. The night sky was distended in my dreams, sinking to earth with the weight of destructive glory behind it. In one of those dreams I reached up and touched it gently with a fingertip, and it burst like a yolk, releasing a deluge of light.

Sofia Samatar

#8. Meditation really helps create not only a sense of balance ... but serenity and kind of a calm state of mind.

Eva Mendes

#9. There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.

Josh Billings

#10. We hate old friends: we hate old books: we hate old opinions; and at last we come to hate ourselves.

William Hazlitt

#11. You Americans, you treat the Third World in the way an Iraqi peasant treats his new bride. Three days of honeymoon, and then it's off to the fields

Saddam Hussein

#12. Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy.

Peter De Vries