Fetching Quotes

#1. the nameless maiden in the advertisement was like a thousand other clothing models he had seen in magazines - arched brows, big eyes, angular cheeks, pouting mouth, a fetching figure, and a haughty, revolted look, as though someone had just offered her a jellyfish to hold.

Herman Wouk

#2. To him it was a sort of hyperspace-librarian, girl-geek thing that he found clever and fetching without attracting him in a way that would have been creepy.

Neal Stephenson

#3. Celia endeavors to be as helpful as she can, which consists mainly of fetching cups of tea and finding new and creative ways to assure people everything will be fine.

Erin Morgenstern

#4. Tetchily. She was fetching Daphne from Heathrow later; at least

Kate Morton

#5. There are other ways of showing someone you love them, such as fetching them out of Hell.

Laini Taylor

#6. Once you outgrow that fetching habit of faith you will display a ferocious authority.

Gregory Maguire

#7. I liked fetching the washing from the Moscrops', and my mother liked washing for Mrs. Moscrop better than for anyone else. That was because Mrs. Moscrop wrapped a bar of yellow soap in with the washing. There wasn't anyone else who thought of a thing like that.

Howard Spring

#8. The condition of mankind is, and always has been, so miserable and depraved that, if anyone were to say to the poet: "For God's sake stop singing and do something useful like putting on the kettle or fetching bandages," what just reason could he give for refusing?

W. H. Auden

#9. And again Harry understood without having to think. It did not matter about bringing them back, for he was about to join them. He was not really fetching them: They were fetching him.

J.K. Rowling

#10. Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

A.A. Milne

#11. Did she have to be so downright fetching in her refusal?
Taking Annie back, he struck a sterner pose in order to keep all comers at bay.

Laura Frantz

#12. Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.

Joseph Addison

#13. Something about seeking love through social media that leaves us feeling empty. Seeking an embrace that can only be made by God leaves us fetching for attention in weak people and desolate places.

Chris Marvel

#14. This is as 'alone' as I'm likely to get with you - you're not half so fetching as your daughter.

Janet Morris

#15. She's as fetching as brown hair done up with ribbons blue
The mountain, my lady
She's as sweet as pink flowers made bright with morning dew,
Mount Eskel, my lady

Shannon Hale

#16. Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though I knew Sinkler in 'The Trusty' was going for water, I did not know that he would meet a fetching young farm wife until I got him into her front yard.

Ron Rash

#17. I imagine that it will not be easy to persuade Mortmain into a bonnet," Magnus observed. "Though the color would be fetching on him."
Henry burst into laughter. "Very droll, Mr. Bane."
"Please, call me Magnus."
"I shall!

Cassandra Clare

#18. Using a fetching face to make men do as you wish is no different from a man using muscle to force a woman to his will. Both are base, and both will fail a person as they age.

Brandon Sanderson

#19. Look here, I have succeeded at last in fetching some gold from the sun.

{After his banker questioned the value of investigating gold in the Fraunhofer lines of the sun and Kirchhoff handing him over a medal he was awarded for his investigations.}

Gustav Kirchhoff

#20. Ottes have been hung just for fetching with a dirty pot. None has been hung for swimming because none had been that stupid.- Sari

Ray Anyasi

#21. Good dog! Nice fetch!"
"He wasn't fetching."
"Bring her here, boy. Good job!"
The dog looked from Zack to me.
"I've been training him," Zack said. "Up till now he's brought home only dead rabbits, but I guess he's finally getting the hang of it.

Elizabeth Chandler

#22. Fetching objects for people who are too lazy to fetch them for themselves is never a pleasant task, particularly when the people are insulting you.

Lemony Snicket

#23. It is certainly impossible to lose respect if you lose out of some stupid discussions.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#24. Music rules a lot of my life - I was bitten by the bug young.

Imelda May

#25. Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.

Arthur C. Clarke

#26. My first months in Sofia were a time of intense disorientation: I had never been to that part of the world before; I could barely speak the language; everything seemed strange to me.

Garth Greenwell

#27. The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid.
Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant.
The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation.

Waseem Latif

#28. The best cure for a stick up your butt is a dog to play fetch with.

Ryan Lilly

#29. If you're gonna leave your mark, you can't follow a bunch of sheep, you gotta listen to your heart.

Garth Brooks

#30. I don't think once you book a part you should stop going to class. I think you should constantly remind yourself that you're working and that you're working on getting better.

Tiffany Thornton

#31. I stop short of being a workaholic.

Jim Davis

#32. Do something about it, or shut up.

Nikki Grimes

#33. The first step in understanding a people is to know the extent of their mortality, the things from which they suffer and die.

Gertrude Diamant

#34. John Maynard Keynes essentially said, don't try and figure out what the market is doing. Figure out a business you understand, and concentrate.

Warren Buffett

#35. If you're ever in a big hotel lobby, and they start to play "The Blue Danube Waltz," get the hell out. Don't think. Run.

Chuck Palahniuk