Netted Quotes

#1. Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average.

Rose Schneiderman

#2. My monumental netted sculptural environments move through time, animated by an ever-changing 'wind choreography,' making invisible air currents suddenly visible to the human eye. I make living, breathing pieces that respond to the forces of nature - wind, light, water.

Janet Echelman

#3. How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

Belva Plain

#4. Vast flocks of fieldfares netted the sky, turning it to something strangely like a sixteenth-century sleeve sewn with pearls.

Helen Macdonald

#5. Everybody tries to score a great goal, and I am lucky I have netted a few.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

#6. Testing her sexuality, she thinks she's caught a beautiful fish, when in reality, she's netted a shark.

Tammara Webber

#7. Sugar's cheek was smooth and taut beneath the veil. It felt like one of these netted onions in a grocery store.

Anne Tyler

#8. Lived to see you throwing
Me aside. That fought
like netted fish inside me. Saw you throbbing
In my syrups. Saw you sleep. And lived to see
That all flushed down
The refuse. Done?
It lives in me.
You live in me. Malignant.
Love, you ever want me, don't.

Louise Gluck

#9. A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.

Rabindranath Tagore

#10. The winged word. The mercurial word. The word that is both moth and lamp. The word that is itself and more. the associative word light with meanings. The word not netted by meaning. The exact word wide. The word not whore nor cenobite. The word unlied.

Jeanette Winterson

#11. She seemed to melt against him in her terror, and he caught her in his arms, held her fast there, felt her lashes beat his cheek like netted butterflies.

Edith Wharton

#12. To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.

Spencer W. Kimball

#13. The flying fish and the diving bird had been netted.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#14. I maintain that in every position that arises, we should deliberately search, among other things, for pieces which have no retreat. If we see one, we automatically look to see if it can be netted.

Cecil Purdy

#15. There is a cyclone fence between ourselves and the slaughter and behind it we hover in a calm protected world like netted fish, exactly like netted fish. It is either the beginning or the end of the world, and the choice is ourselves or nothing.

Carolyn Forche

#16. If historians are not skeptical, they are nothing.

Geoffrey Elton

#17. Even the most radical Islamic terrorist would not want to see the revered holy city of Medina go up. It would be like losing the Vatican in Rome.

Nelson DeMille

#18. I want to write. I have always wanted to write. I do not care it I am not good at it. I just want to try.

Mary Pipher

#19. I don't know what his problem is," I said as Michael and I left the school. "Why would he tell me to be careful if he hates my guts?"
"Because he doesn't hate your guts. I think he likes you." Michael was walking so fast I had to jog to keep up with him. "Isn't it obvious?

Michelle Rowen

#20. Every single day, another page is added and as one book finishes, another one starts.

Savi Sharma

#21. There was a clown in the stormdrain.

Stephen King