Lost Marbles Quotes

#1. For a moment she just stared, wondering if there were another girl staying here, or if Sebastian had taken to cross-dressing.

Cassandra Clare

#2. Don't listen to him." Mabel waved a hand in disregard. "He's gone and lost his mind since the last time you paid us a visit. All his marbles fell out; rolled under the tables and counters, and he's too old to bend down and find them.

Ania Ahlborn

#3. Shigri boy lost his marbles in the end but the plane General Zia is about to board has enough VX gas on it to wipe out a village.

Mohammed Hanif

#4. A person asked me, How do you prepare for the stage? I told her, Well, it's like this. You go to diction school. They teach you to fill your mouth with marbles and talk right through the marbles. Each day you take one marble out. When you've lost all your marbles ...

Henny Youngman

#5. Fill your mouth with marbles and make a speech. Every day reduce the number of marbles in your mouth and make a speech. You will soon become an accredited public speaker
as soon as you have lost all your marbles.

Brooks Hays

#6. My mind: a thousand hungry daughters,
my harlot heritage.

Marbles: lost, no rescue search.

Your heart: blooming thorns,
and a stolen grocery cart.

Virginia Petrucci

#7. This is an accessible work of philosophy in the best sense, sharply focused on matters of vital human concern and free of the domain tics that mar even allegedly popular works by Anglo-American philosophers.

Mark Lilla

#8. She was a worst-case scenarist on a grand scale. Because it was never just that the door was unlocked, it was that the door was unlocked, and men were inside, and they were waiting to rape and kill her.

Gillian Flynn

#9. Let a man who wants to find abundance of employment procure a woman and a ship: for no two things do produce more trouble if you begin to equip them; neither are these two things ever equipped enough.

Plautus

#10. Poor Kate," said Constance, "she's lost her marbles.

Trenton Lee Stewart

#11. If the plural for marble, marbles, is slang for sanity, then what does it mean to get lost in a room of marble statues?

Bridgette Bates

#12. Who is that blond child laughing as he runs after his colored marbles? [my marbles]
It's me
And who is the poet writing this poem?
That blond child who laughed as he ran after his colored marbles

Pierre Albert-Birot

#13. They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.

Macaulay Culkin

#14. When I was a kid, I used to play marbles. I know some of you think I've lost mine.

Jimy Williams

#15. I know, although when looks meet
I tremble to the bone,
The more I leave the door unlatched
The sooner love is gone ...

William Butler Yeats

#16. I realize that I won't have quite enough time to understand everything - but that hasn't stopped me wanting to understand as much as I can.

David Papineau