Painted Sign Sayings

#1. One the next corner stood a cinder block restaurant with a hand-painted sign that read CHICKEN & WAFFLES. There was a queue of twenty people outside.
You Americans have the strangest taste. What planet is this?

Rick Riordan

#2. To enter a wood is to pass into a different world in which we ourselves are transformed.

Roger Deakin

#3. Often books speak of books.

Umberto Eco

#4. The store had a hand-painted sign that read: MOOSE PASS GAS. "That's just wrong," Frank said. By

Rick Riordan

#5. We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial consideration.

Dalai Lama

#6. I feel upsettingly de-natured. If Penelope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn't even notice.

Christopher Hitchens

#7. A cluster of houses lay about three miles down this joke of a road, and a hand-painted sign read: WELCOME TO SHIFTERTOWN! POPULATION: FIFTY-TWO SHIFTERS, TWENTY HORSES, FIVE DOGS, AND FIFTEEN CATS.

Jennifer Ashley

#8. The store had a hand-painted sign the read: MOOSE PASS GAS. "That's just wrong," Frank said.

Rick Riordan

#9. It's useful to think of the imagination as an aspect of the body because it seems to have processes of its own that are obscure to us.

Margo Lanagan

#10. The greatest terror of Danny's life was DIVORCE, a word that always appeared in his mind as a sign painted in red letters which were covered with hissing, poisonous snakes.

Stephen King

#11. Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign of ignorance and brutality which cannot be painted over even by all the evidence of wealth and luxury.

Alexander Von Humboldt

#12. I'd lost myself in the abyss of someone else's tyranny ... again.

Cassandra Giovanni

#13. It's the ultimate conceptual artwork. I took a piece of metal and just painted an image of a stop sign on it - a four-by-four-foot stop sign.

Josh Smith

#14. He had seen her painted sign by the road: Skin Illustration! Illustration instead of tattoo! Artistic!

Ray Bradbury

#15. His tavern sign bore witness to his feats of arms. He had painted it himself, being a Jack-of-all-trades who did everything badly.

Victor Hugo

#16. I painted the Astor-Victoria sign seven times, and it's 395 feet wide and 58 feet high. I dropped a gallon of purple paint on Seventh Avenue and 47th Street from 15 stories up and didn't kill anybody. I dropped a brush at Columbus Circle. It fell on a guy's camel-hair coat.

James Rosenquist

#17. On page six his eyes fell on a large photograph of a wooden road sign with a sun cross painted on. Oslo 2,611 km, it said on one arm, Leningrad 5 km on the other. The article beneath was credited to Even

Jo Nesbo

#18. Let us not mock God with metaphor,
Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence;
Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the
Faded credulity of earlier ages:
Let us walk through the door.

John Updike

#19. Christianity is a fighting religion.

C.S. Lewis

#20. She couldn't have been more than twelve years old. In her hands was a sign that said RED-HEADS RULE! with a little crown painted in the corner and tiny stars everywhere. I knew I was the only redhead in the competition, and I noticed that her hair and mine were very nearly the same shade.

Kiera Cass

#21. Late afternoon he pulls up outside a white painted Baptist church with a wooden cross on the front wall above a sign that reads, JESUS DOESN'T NEED TO TWEET. pg 138

Michael Robotham