Inserted Quotes

#1. For what purpose could the enumeration of particular powers be inserted, if these and all others were meant to be included in the preceding general power?

James Madison

#2. I once heard an elder say that the dead who have no use for their words leave them as part of their children's inheritance. Proverbs, teeth suckings, obscenities, even grunts and moans once inserted in special places during conversations, all are passed along to the next heir.

Edwidge Danticat

#3. I will pull your pancreas out through your nose and feed it back to you in a drip inserted into your anus is that clear?

Sara Wolf

#4. Earmarks are almost always inserted by a member of Congress without any notice to other members, and without a chance for Congress as a whole to debate a particular earmark as they relate to national priorities.

Marsha Blackburn

#5. She's alone, Inserted so deep in her blankets; I'm going to need a map to find her.

Tanya Watt

#6. Simone's mother was an unfortunate mistake. Palackas, Simone's father, was a bound demon who stumbled across her one night while he was carrying out an order for his master. One thing led to another ... he inserted part A into slot B, and he fell in love with her ... (Jaden)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#7. My 2005 calendar we actually did a shoot in Lake Las Vegas. Since I had requests do some swimwear and athletic shots we tried them and they came out good so we inserted them into the new calendar.

Natalie Gulbis

#8. Dicks didn't need to be inserted for it to be cheating.

Alice Clayton

#9. An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect because you can't go after them, you just come upon them. In 25 years I've only found about 12.

Miranda July

#10. Metaphors are inserted in our language even when they do not stand out (did you notice that?) to us.

Niklas Torneke

#11. No stops are ever inserted in Acts of Parliament, or in deeds; but the Courts of law, in construing them, must read them with such stops as will give effect to the whole.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.

Nathan Myhrvold

#13. The dog did not move as the needle was inserted, and, as the barbiturate began to flow into the vein, the anxious expression left his face and the muscles began to relax. By the time the injection was finished, the breathing had stopped.

James Herriot

#14. There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life.

Sigmund Freud

#15. I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I don't think a fiction writer has anything over a journalist. It's all about the good word, properly inserted.

Colum McCann

#16. A noise came from the phone that resembled the sound of a howler monkey having an ice cube inserted into its rectum

Aurelio Voltaire

#17. The idea of a wanton woman is something I have inserted into almost all of my books. An outlaw figure who is disallowed in the community because of her imagination or activity or status - that kind of anarchic figure has always fascinated me.

Toni Morrison

#18. It's difficult to make the argument that one female fist inserted into one male ass
or, for that matter, dozens or even hundreds of fists inserted into as many asses
can really make a difference for, say, lesbian mothers fighting for custody of their children. -Katherine Raymond

Carol Queen

#19. I would have made her a part of me. If I could, I would have had a notch cut in my already aging side and a slip of her, my young rose, inserted there and lashed to me with twine.

John Banville

#20. It's as if we're higher apes who had a language faculty inserted.

Noam Chomsky

#21. Sticking wires into the brain is obviously rather crude. It's hard to do in animals that run around, and there is a physical limit to the number of wires that can be inserted simultaneously.

Gero Miesenbock

#22. Writing is rewriting; rewriting is writing - from the first crossed-out word in the first sentence to the last word inserted above a caret, that most helpful handwritten stroke.

John Casey

#23. The music that of common speech but slanted so that each detail sounds unexpected as a sharp inserted in a simple scale.

Dana Gioia

#24. Government has become a machine that runs only when gold coins are inserted.

Patricia Schroeder

#25. A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: "Wife wanted". Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You can have mine."

Brad Pitt

#26. One, with fixed blinds inserted, in place of upper panels. The isolated subterraneousness of the cabin made a certain humming silence to reign there, though it was hooped round by all the roar of the elements. The loaded muskets in the rack were shiningly revealed,

Herman Melville

#27. The plane as an object has been a huge effort to make. It is a sculpture, a technological invention, a piece of aviation culture. But really, it only exists to be inserted into a variety of landscapes, to be a catalyst, to offset them.

Aleksandra Mir

#28. When I started out, it was considered very wrong to change an image. There were scandals if someone inserted a sky into a war picture or something. Now it's all about that.

Mary Ellen Mark

#29. That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.

John Berger

#30. Indeed, it is nearly impossible for any person inserted in a modern cultural context to escape the haze of the zeitgeist and develop a truly unbiased, critical, and personal worldview.

Bernardo Kastrup

#31. Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Ambrose Bierce

#32. From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Even before the founding fathers dreamed up the First Amendment, they inserted a provision in the Constitution expressly prohibiting any religious test for office.

Noah Feldman

#33. What the road really was, she fancied, was this hypodermic needle, inserted somewhere ahead into the vein of a freeway, a vein nourishing the mainliner L.A., keeping it happy, coherent, protected from pain, or whatever passes, with a city, for pain.

Thomas Pynchon

#34. An image of her shackled to my bench, peeled gingerroot inserted in her ass so she can't clench her buttocks, comes to mind, followed by judicious use of a belt or strap.

E.L. James

#35. Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

Jorge Luis Borges

#36. Peeled gingerroot inserted in her ass so she can't clench her buttocks,

E.L. James

#37. I think all people want freedom, but they've got this idea inserted into their head about money.

Andy Couturier

#38. But, Mrs Van Hoosier, if I may make so bold-'

'You may not,' She inserted another cake into her mouth and chewed it so angrily I all but felt sorry for it. When it was finally dead she turned and fixed me a look, as though she were a scientist and I some kind of bug she was microscoping.

John Harding

#39. God's love was designed to be inserted directly into the world's pain to work pain against itself for our good.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#40. The church, inserted and active in human society and in history, does not exist in order to exercise political power or to govern the society.

Claudio Hummes

#41. It seemed to her that almost any pain was sympathetic to her loss and she inserted herself immediately into the concept of fantastic suffering.

Louise Erdrich

#42. Beginning with the stimulus, Obama has repeatedly inserted the government into the free market for political reasons - and with disastrous results.

Reince Priebus

#43. Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky is day.

Joseph O'Neill

#44. Eventually I found it had been working all along-but didn't show anything on screen until it had the first full page of text. I inserted 30 new lines, and suddenly my toy said 'hEllO woRlD'. An hour later I understood alphabet shifting rather better!

Graham Nelson

#45. In fact, I think you're a genius, Quinn. And I think I'm a genius for picking you." "Revisionist history. You didn't pick me. I inserted myself into your sordid plan." Lori grinned. "Right again. You are a genius at inserting yourself, Quinn Jennings.

Victoria Dahl

#46. Freedom or jail clips inserted, a baby's being born/ Same time a man is murdered, the beginning and end.

Nas

#47. It is not a vending-machine world, however, in which every coin of sin that is inserted results in individually packaged retribution.

Anonymous

#48. The ancient Egyptian zodiacs served as a platform for the Anticipated Prophecy. That's why there are empty cartouches on the circular zodiac at Dendera with no name inserted therein.

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#49. It was summer and moonlight and we had lemonade to drink, and we held the cold glasses in our hands, and Dad read the stereo-newspapers inserted into the special hat you put on your head and which turned the microscopic page in front of the magnifying lens if you blinked three times in succession.

Ray Bradbury

#50. You are most humble and gentle when you think that the person you are ministering to is more like you than unlike you. When you have inserted yourself into another category that tends to make you think you have arrived, it is very easy to be judgmental and impatient.

Paul David Tripp

#51. With practice I will eventually realize my goal; in the meantime, come to Paris and you will find me, headphones plugged tight in my external audio meatus, walking the quays and whispering, 'Has anything else been inserted into your anus? Has anything else been inserted into your anus?

David Sedaris

#52. Sometimes you can be inserted into another person's life just by witnessing something you were never really supposed to be a part of.

Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock

#53. That sound, the sound of a shell inserted into the receiver of the shotgun changed everything.

Perry Perrett

#54. There was a pumping noise which Isaac knew to mean that the toxins had been released. Someone checked the needles and the tubing which had been inserted into his wrists and Isaac saw the thin, clear tubes begin to carry poisonous liquid into his veins.

Dennis B. Boyer

#55. So, pop quiz, Mr. Parrish. Three things that appear in the vicinity of ley lines?" "Black dogs," Adam said indulgently. "Demonic presences." "Camaros," Ronan inserted.

Maggie Stiefvater

#56. The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.

Edward Abbey