Hinged Quotes

#1. In some ways, getting published in children's literature is a little more open than publishing adult literature. It's less hinged on who you might know.

Marie Rutkoski

#2. At last, small witches, goblins, hags, And pirates armed with paper bags Their costumes hinged on safety pins, Go haunt a night of pumpkin grins.

John Updike

#3. In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.

Barry Unsworth

#4. Forgiveness and restoration are two difference acts. Forgiveness can lead to restoration but restoration is not hinged to forgiveness.

Gary Rohrmayer

#5. Mammoth was more controlled than Valor and made a point to keep his attention hinged on Ivo - as if disgusted by Valor's eagerness. "Mammoth, greet the lady properly," Ivo said. To Cinderella's surprise and delight, Mammoth slid forward on his front paws, bowing to her.

K.M. Shea

#6. The way he loved was almost like a vise, a weight; at times she felt it verged on codependence--that his identity, his value system, all of it very much hinged on her.

Nickolas Butler

#7. How fragile were the moments of chance on which the whole course of one's life hinged.

Mary Balogh

#8. His stomach tried to propel itself out of his throat. His mouth hinged open all by itself - the better to upchuck you with, my dear - and shot out five gods, a very slimy rock, quite a lot of nectar, some biscuits, and a chariot license plate. (No, I don't know how all that got in there.)

Rick Riordan

#9. He especially enjoyed watching Mrs. Sen as she chopped things, seated on newspapers on the living room floor. Instead of a knife she used a blade that curved like the prow of a Viking ship, sailing to battle in distant seas. The blade was hinged at one end to a narrow wooden base.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#10. Hinged to forgetfulness like a door,
she slowly closed out of sight,
and she was the woman I loved,
but too many times she slept like
a mechanical deer in my caresses,
and I ached in the metal silence
of her dreams.

Richard Brautigan

#11. The hinged clogs were transforming his feet into blood puddings.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#12. The roughness on the under side of the wing comes from tiny scales, which are not present on the upper surface. These cover tiny holes that perforate the wing, and are hinged to form tiny scales, which are not present on the upper surface.

Marie Brennan

#13. The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes.

Stanislaw Lem

#14. Everything hinged on money,

Edna O'Brien

#15. Eventually, there is one principle, and one principle alone on which the world is hinged: things will work out the way they should, provided we do what we should.

Manreet Sodhi Someshwar

#16. To me, steampunk and urban fantasy are naturally hinged together. And I think that's because I love the early gothic Victorian literature, and both things spring from that movement.

Gail Carriger

#17. My masculinity isn't hinged on whether or not I knit.

Robin Green

#18. Leonie Barrow knew enough about real criminal investigations to know full well that cases rarely if ever hinged on an encyclopedic knowledge of tobacco ash or the curious incident of the butler's allergy to spinach.

Jonathan L. Howard

#19. What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

Bernard Levin

#20. Sperry's thinking about subjective experience, consciousness, the mind, and human values makes a powerful plea for a new scientific examination of ethics in the workings of consciousness. These ideas were crystallized in his paper "The Impact and Promise of the Cognitive Revolution" (1993).

Roger Wolcott Sperry

#21. If we can believe in the Gnostic gospel of Thomas, old Uncle Jesus said, If you bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth will save you. If you don't bring forth what is inside you, what you bring forth can destroy you.

Anne Lamott

#22. While it may be impossible to 'disprove' the existence of some 'Higher Power' or abstract Creator, it is entirely possible - through analysis and research - to find discrepancies within the ancient, organized religious traditions that support the idea of a specific God.

David G. McAfee

#23. The popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#24. Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

Edward Carpenter

#25. Fear is intense self-awareness.

Don DeLillo

#26. What I know for sure: Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

Oprah Winfrey

#27. Venture deep into the wilderness of lost thought to the point that you physically shiver with apprehension, and there you will find creativity

Carl Henegan

#28. The human eye doesn't look above its own height.

John Marsden

#29. I have never cared very much for personal prizes. A person does not become a freedom fighter in the hope of winning awards.

Nelson Mandela

#30. I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.

R.L. Stine

#31. Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment - the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.

Jorge Luis Borges