Flank Quotes

#1. They come upon me all silent and menacing like Pinkerton Detectives, and they flank me - Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#2. Dairy laid a hand gently on her flank. "Captain Loch showed me the difference between is and should. She shouldn't be gone but she is..." She was still trembling. Tiny whiskers of breath barely made puffs of steam in the cold morning air. "But she shouldn't be. Someone needs to start should.

Patrick Weekes

#3. Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a battery under Earle managed to strike the Federal right on the flank and rear and throw it into utter confusion, which spread rapidly along the whole front. Now came the disastrous end.

Henry Villard

#4. I make a bomb vaca frita. It's like a flank steak like with the ropa vieja, but it's fried with garlic and lime. And I make a really good picadillo.

Natalie Martinez

#5. Not real bright - she thought the figure he'd trace without thinking on her bare flank after sex was the numeral 8, to give you an idea.

David Foster Wallace

#6. I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.

Betty Smith

#7. Mounting a large rock, I was able to see a considerable body of the enemy moving by the flank in rear of their line engaged, and passing from the direction of the foot of Great Round Top through the valley toward the front of my left.

Joshua Chamberlain

#8. I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.

William Gibson

#9. I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#10. Trinity Royal, which was being nuzzled by a dozen small launches nosing into her flank like piglets suckling on a sow.

Bernard Cornwell

#11. They flank me - depression on my left, loneliness on my right. They don't need to show their badges. I know these guys very well ... Then they frisk me. They empty my pockets of any joy I had been carrying there. Depression even confiscates my identity; but he always does that.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#12. One charming characteristic of many flank attacks I could mention is that they do not very often lead to simplification: if the attack is parried, there usually are still opportunities left for initiating action in another sector.

Bent Larsen

#13. Edie Banister, wearing a false moustache which tastes of tiger flank and erotic dancer, sitting six storeys up on the windowsill of the aged mother of a renownedly murderous prince, takes a few seconds to contemplate the unusual direction of her life.

Nick Harkaway

#14. You always said I could see the present," said Candle, when she could speak. "But I can see nothing about her - my own daughter." Liir smoothed his hand over her silky flank. "Maybe that's not so surprising. Maybe all parents are blindest to their own offspring.

Gregory Maguire

#15. When God lets loose a great thinker on this planet, then all things are at risk. There is not a piece of science but its flank may be turned to-morrow; nor any literary reputation or the so-called eternal names of fame that many not be refused and condemned.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. No one ever remembered a nice day. But no one ever forget the feel of paralyzed fish, the thud of walnut-sized hail against a horse's flank, or the way a superheated wind could turn your eyes to burlap.

Erik Larson

#17. Advertising is the spur on the flank that keeps modern company-helping economy out of hand till the day common sense is restored, if ever it happens.

Robert W. Sarnoff

#18. She felt, beneath her feet, the shifting of the planks she'd laid across the quicksand of that other life. She'd thought she could escape it? It was there, it had always been there, and this life she'd built on top of it felt about as sturdy as a shantytown on the flank of a volcano.

Laini Taylor

#19. There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. To bolster his right flank and attract women voters, John McCain had cynically opted for a running mate who was, by any stretch of the imagination, unqualified for a position a heartbeat away from the presidency.

Jay Parini

#21. Advertising is the foot on the accelerator, the hand on the throttle, the spur on the flank that keeps our economy surging forward.

Robert W. Sarnoff

#22. Strip makeup lights just don't give you a fighting chance no matter how good looking you are. Light sconces that flank the mirror illuminate your entire face evenly.

Candice Olson

#23. The man needed USDA Prime tattooed up his flank.

Maeve Greyson

#24. All of life is a battle against fear. We fight it on one front, and it sneaks around to our flank." He paused, looked kindly at her. "Yes, Father. I understand." "I regret many things I've done," he said, "but most of all I regret those moments when I said to Fear, 'You are my master.

S.D. Smith

#25. We do not ask for wealth because he that has health and children will also have wealth. We do not pray to have money but to have more kinsmen. We are better than animals because we have kinsmen. An animal rubs its itching flank against a tree, a man asks his kinsman to scratch him.

Chinua Achebe

#26. Tyson was still staring at Chiron in amazement. He whimpered like he wanted to pat Chiron's flank but was afraid to come closer.
Pony?

Rick Riordan

#27. Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes and having fun

Mary Lou Cook

#28. If you think hard enough about it, Rowlf the dog playing the piano on 'The Muppet Show' - what kind of insanity was happening underneath the cameras to make that happen? His mouth is moving, and he's got two hands playing the piano. That's two people under there!

Rob McClure

#29. The important thing in life is not what you get, but what you throw out.

Saul Leiter

#30. You can't win unless you first begin. So start now

Robin Sharma

#31. Reliance's success is a reflection of India's capabilities, the talent of her people and the potential of her entrepreneurs, engineers, managers, and workers.

Dhirubhai Ambani

#32. Books are like people: there are too many and most are garbage but we keep producing them because maybe a really amazing one will turn up though it's doubtful as fuck.

Brian Alan Ellis

#33. Recognize reality even when you don't like it-especially when you don't like it.

Charlie Munger

#34. and debris, and her husband and I settled back, sucking on toothpicks like a pair of feudal lords. This may sound sexist and insensitive and politically incorrect - and it is - but I had long since

Will Ferguson