Mismatched Quotes

#1. Nothing like that. it had more to do with his face. which, although presentable, gave me the feeling that his every expression had been thrown together on the spur of the moment. like mismatched dishes set out in make-do fashion on a party table.

Haruki Murakami

#2. Don't keep excessive amounts of anything. Those glass vases that come from florists. Those ketchup packets that come with take-out food. A house with two adults probably doesn't need fifteen mismatched souvenir coffee cups.

Gretchen Rubin

#3. Members of the court still talked in whispers of the lady-in-waiting who had accidentally worn mismatched stockings to an afternoon tea. They said she made a lovely rosebush, always festooned with stunning flowers in two slightly different colors of peach.
Beka didn't aspire to be a rosebush.

Deborah Blake

#4. Do you mind?" I looked at him from my upside-down position. The rope tight around my ankle, hands fought a losing battle with gravity over my t-shirt.
"What are you doing here?" He kneeled, hand rested on the crossbow while he dug his mismatched eyes into me.
"Oh, you know... just hanging.

Isabelle Crusoe

#5. A blind Justice is merely an impartial Justice. True Justice would have eyes in the back of her head and a pair of mismatched shoes.

Eli Ashpence

#6. None of our lives were perfect, we all had faced bumps in the road, loss, and heartache. But together we made our own mismatched kind of family.

Elizabeth Dennis

#7. There's a gender in your brain and a gender in your body. For 99 percent of people, those things are in alignment. For transgender people, they're mismatched. That's all it is. It's not complicated, it's not a neurosis. It's a mix-up. It's a birth defect, like a cleft palate.

Chaz Bono

#8. There's a cover for every pot, but I've never seen so many mismatched pots and covers in all my life. - Ellen Wasserfeldman, from Notes from Ellen Wasserfeldman by Alisa Dana Steinberg

Alisa Steinberg

#9. We are faulty and there is no need to bother trying to correct our flaws. We are so defective and so mismatched to our environment that we can just work around these flaws. I

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#10. She'd missed the way he walked, the way he shoved his hands into his pockets when he was nervous, the way his dark hair fell into his mismatched eyes. The way a smile would flicker across his face before he committed to it, the way he looked at her like she was the only person in the world.

Kate Lattey

#11. I plan to march to the ends of the world and the Great Outer Sea," the young King said, his mismatched eyes shining with certainty. "And it's Al-ex-an-der." He smiled. "You Persians always butcher my name.

Kat Ross

#12. Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.

Charles Simic

#13. On the face of things, we were hopelessly mismatched, but somehow we fit together perfectly.

Tiffany Baker

#14. How an individual's reputation is protected online is too important and subtle a policy matter to be legislated by a high court, which is institutionally mismatched to the evolving intricacies of the online world.

Jonathan Zittrain

#15. Despite their difference, because of their differences, they were a perfect mismatched set. Two sides of the same tarnished penny.

Sarra Manning

#16. You can have all this mismatched Tupperware and lids, but you can never get them sealed quite right. That one edge always keeps popping up. It's supposed to fit, but it rarely does. You've gotta try a few lids before you find the one that actually snaps.

Alyson Hannigan

#17. On nights that I'm feeling a need to stretch personally and artistically, I tend to put together outfits that are very quirky, mismatched and over-the-top eclectic.

Esperanza Spalding

#18. It's what inside that counts, she reasoned defiantly. Love conquers all: even mismatched outfits and saggy jumpers.

Eleanor Prescott

#19. Nature" doesn't really have intentions, per se. Nature is a drunk waking up from a weekend bender, ambling through a messy kitchen in a pair of mismatched slippers, seeing its car in the neighbor's pool and saying, "Ah good. It was dirty. Just the thing.

Pat Connid

#20. He stretched out beside her, uncomfortably close, as if they were lovers. Real lovers and not the most mismatched pair of fuck buddies ever.

Larissa Ione

#21. Now we were like those families in magazines, the ones who served food on matching crockery, and who drank water from glasses instead of mismatched mugs. We

Benjamin Law

#22. I know this looks pathetic, but I'm wearing black elastic-waist pants just like my mother's, a hot-pink fleece hat, mismatched socks, and no makeup. I think it's safe to say that vanity is no longer my biggest concern.

Lisa Genova

#23. The Eisenhower Building - the furniture is mismatched; everything is just bad decor and bad quality. Everybody's looking down at their Blackberry. It's a really frantic, mismatched environment. But on the exterior, it's this whitewashed, gorgeous building. It's a fascinating contrast.

Tony Hale

#24. Aside from the posters, wherever there was room, there were books. Stacks and stacks of books. Books crammed into mismatched shelves and towers of books up to the ceiling. I liked my books.

Megan Crane

#25. The church is God saying: 'I'm throwing a banquet, and all these mismatched, messed-up people are invited. Here, have some wine.

Rachel Held Evans

#26. He was a whole mess of almosts, of mismatched pieces.

Brenna Yovanoff

#27. She knew exactly what he meant. Despite their differences, because of their differences, they were a perfect mismatched set. Two sides of the same tarnished penny. An out-of-step Fred and Ginger. Vaughn was just as fucked up as she was - he was just so much better at hiding it.

Sarra Manning

#28. From that historically brief quite opaque moment, came the chaos of our material history, an anarchy of chronology, of mismatched remnants that delighted and horrified investigators.

China Mieville

#29. Civilization's shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems.

Stewart Brand

#30. Along the way, he followed his own advice and snagged a pair of mismatched daggers from the corpses of fallen archers. They weren't as well-made as the ones he'd taken from the dead rogue, but they had pointy ends he could stab into people and that was really all that mattered in a dagger.

Drew Hayes

#31. The dirty laundry of our confessed sin belongs in the Lord's laundry hamper; for there He will toss them like mismatched socks as far as the east is from the west.

Cheryl Zelenka

#32. The news is increasingly full of mismatched people saying daft things to one another.

Craig Brown

#33. I guess we're all a bunch of mismatched couples - that actually fit

Simone Elkeles