Jostled Quotes

#1. He just hadn't expected to have his equilibrium roughly jostled by a pair of blue eyes this evening. He couldn't remember ever seeing eyes quite that color before. So achingly lovely they made him restless. He felt oddly as though he needed to do something about them.

Julie Anne Long

#2. Will you pose for the nude?" I asked
breathlessly, as he jostled me on his
shoulder.
"Yes. With a condition."
"What condition?"
"I want you naked, as well, while you
paint.

R.K. Lilley

#3. No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.

Thomas Carlyle

#4. You have to have humor. If you don't have humor and you take yourself seriously, you're dead in the water. You have to be jostled. I love it. You've gotta have a laugh. It's better than working for a living.

Anthony Hopkins

#5. All of my own impulses to balance and move seemed to conflict with those of the guards, and I was jerked and jostled down the portico, just as graceful as a sick cat.

Megan Whalen Turner

#6. having been jostled by a nautical-looking negro who had come from one of the queer dark courts on the precipitous hillside which formed a short cut from the waterfront to the deceased's home

H.P. Lovecraft

#7. Fat green frogs, the eternally grinning type destined to be shellacked into bizarre poses while wearing mariachi hats and holding toy trumpets and guitars and then sold in tourist traps all over Mexico, jostled lazily in the dappled shadows.

Luis Alberto Urrea

#8. I've never been drawn to concert DVDs because they take away the part of the equation that's most important to seeing a live show: getting jostled around and feeling the energy in the room. I definitely didn't want to make one of those.

Feist

#9. It was a city in which the very old and the awkwardly new jostled each other, not uncomfortably, but without respect;

Neil Gaiman

#10. Hurry, drive and bustle ... Everybody looking out for number one, and caring little who jostled past, if their rights were not infringed.

Fanny Fern

#11. I sort of ended up in Los Angeles by accident. And it was sort of terrible to be jostled into this position of a fame-hungry starlet. Which is so honestly not me! In fact, I could use a bit more of that because I am such a hermit! So I allowed myself to get really bothered.

Kate Beckinsale

#12. I found out too that you are bound to be jostled in "the crowded street of life." That in itself need not be dangerous unless you have the open razors of personal vanity in your pants pocket. The passers-by don't hurt you, but if you go around like that, they make you hurt yourself.

Zora Neale Hurston

#13. He wished he could somehow go back and find the iPhone people whom he'd jostled on the sidewalk earlier, apologize to them - I'm sorry, I've just realized that I'm as minimally present in this world as you are, I had no right to judge -

Emily St. John Mandel

#14. Secondhand booksellers and binder's shops ran in uneven rows on either side of me, jumbled and jostled together like an ill-kept bookshelf.

Douglas Hulick

#15. Every normal family is one tragedy away from complete implosion.

Katja Millay

#16. I wouldn't like to be a non-believer in anything.

Nicolas Roeg

#17. How have I never realized before that for all the strong, kind parts of him, there are also hurting, broken parts?

Veronica Roth

#18. But to tell the truth (to tell the truth!) I have never been particularly resolute, I mean given to resolutions, but rather inclined to plunge headlong into the shit, without knowing who was shitting against whom or on which side I had the better chance of skulking with success.

Samuel Beckett

#19. I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder ... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

Tanya Tucker

#20. Take care of what is difficult while it is still easy, and deal with what will become big while it is yet small.

Laozi

#21. Wisdom, ambition, sadness, joy, malice, grief, amazement, all the emotions which blaze within the human soul may be recorded on a page.
Nestled in a sheaf of paper sleeps an infinity beyond the limits of the universe. Just by opening a single page, we may fly into that infinity.

Tanigawa Nagaru

#22. Beautiful, luscious and flowing. Atop the governor's head.

Rick Perry

#23. I'd be more interested in doing a smaller, character driven thing, rather than another action picture.

Sigourney Weaver

#24. He wondered if there was anyone in the world who liked him. Liked him for himself alone.

Toni Morrison

#25. Jesus was never worried or perplexed. He was calmly and completely in control of every situation. He never doubted that His Father's goodness would provide everything He needed. And the Father never failed Him.

Derek Prince

#26. When the world decides to stop being greedy ... there will be a harvest for the world! Amen.

Jess Glynne