Top 28 Flanked Quotes
#1. In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter of cold veal, on the south by an enormous ham, on the east by a monumental pile of butter, and on the west by an enormous dish of artichokes, with a hot sauce.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
#2. San always called it "figiator" - flanked by two large,
Tom Yarborough
#3. Flanked by his personal guardsmen, Emperor Gevalen walked toward me, never letting go of me with his eyes. It was thrilling and terrifying all at once.
Julie B. Campbell
#4. Brandishing sword and pistol, and flanked by several men, she managed to be sufficiently intimidating and the attackers had been frightened away.
Sylvia Day
#5. Your knight in shining armor doesn't have to come flanked with money, or with the answers to all your problems, he doesn't even have to rescue you, but your well-being should mean just as much to him, as it does to you, and even more so when you don't mean much to yourself.
Ty J. Snow
#6. Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard ways to the stars.
Carl Sandburg
#7. I too was pinched off from a piece of clay,
I too modeled by omnipotence and flanked
by things too wonderful for me
Bryana Johnson
#8. run up the hillside, flanked by closely clustered two-story
Malcolm Gladwell
#9. The other inmates stand in a long straight line, flanked by guards, and I am dragged past them. I do not respect them, because they will not run - will not try to escape.
Jack Henry Abbott
#10. We were just standing there, and her eyes were so interesting. Not in the usual way of being interesting, like being extremely blue or extremely big or flanked by obscenely long lashes or anything.
John Green
#11. America acknowledged the greatness of Confucius through a trio of ancient lawgivers - Moses flanked by Confucius to his right and Solon on his left - on the monument to "Justice, the Guardian of Liberty" displayed on the eastern pediment of the U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C.
Patrick Mendis
#12. Sleepy pulled the car to a stop in front of this paved entranceway, which was flanked on either side by these enormous palm trees, kind of like the Polynesian Resort at Disney World. In fact, the whole place had kind of a Disney feel to it. You know, really big, and kind of modern and fake.
Meg Cabot
#13. Telling a story of illness, one pulls a thread through a narrow opening flanked on one side by shame and the other by trivia.
Susan Griffin
#14. Television doomed us to the Family, whose household instrument it has become-what the hearth used to be, flanked by the communal kettle.
Roland Barthes
#15. She was flanked by a skinny redhead and an older girl, dressed with the same shabby afterthought. As if dredged from a lake.
Emma Cline
#16. Landowner of those parts. An archway to one side leads to a church, the Madonna del Carmine - Our Lady of Mount Carmine. Narrow stone steps run up the hillside, flanked by closely clustered two-story stone houses with red-tile roofs. For centuries, the paesani of Roseto
Malcolm Gladwell
#17. There have been so many outstanding players I've had as team-mates, but if I had to choose I'd choose Giggsy, he can do anything.
Paul Scholes
#18. Writers must rely more on the feel of a sentence than on the dictates of a rule book.
James J. Kilpatrick
#20. All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. For while in all other kinds of art it is possible to distinguish the matter from the form, and the understanding can always make this distinction, yet it is the constant effort of art to obliterate it.
Walter Pater
#21. For a few brief moments, Matt got to hold Julie in his arms. And that gift? That would stay with him forever.
Jessica Park
#22. The tricky thing about fear is: It wears a different mask every day.
L. Duarte
#23. I'm thankful for some of bad experiences I've had. They helped me with the way I view people and see them for who they really are.
Blake Griffin
#24. There you are," she says flinging her arms. "And just as I suspected. I've been worrying my ass off and you've been having multiple orgasms at the end of a Greek god's penis. Figures.
M. Leighton
#25. In Beirut, death's unremitting light shines bright for all to see, brighter than the Mediterranean sun, brighter than the night's Russian missiles, brighter than a baby's smile.
Rabih Alameddine
#27. Africa is rich, and why are we poor then if our continent is rich. It is not right.
Mo Ibrahim
#28. We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living
Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world,
And then smooth out with ivory hands and sigh.
W.B.Yeats