Pelting Quotes

#1. Packed tight like a case of celery, only much darker than that. They were all against her, she could see. So many were there against her that a light slap from each one of them would have beat her to death. She felt them pelting her with dirty thoughts.

Zora Neale Hurston

#2. And then his world turned into a pelting rain of flaming snot.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#3. Considering it was my father's house, I thought it was very much my beeswax, but I wasn't about to argue with a stranger hiding in a kitchen, pelting me with footwear.

Caitlin Kittredge

#4. The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proportions of a blizzard.

Frances Parkinson Keyes

#5. We were running all over the front lawn and under the rainspouts, barefooted, in our underpants, with the rain pelting down, straight cold gray rain of Delta summers, wonderful rain. -Mexico

Ellen Gilchrist

#6. External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.

Charles Dickens

#7. I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part.

Oscar Isaac

#8. The true misfits are the ones who don't think they are.

Sometimes the concepts that ground us in quiescent certainty are the same ones that cast us into pelting hailstorms of insurmountable disbelief.

Robyn Alana Engel

#9. i see poets riding the red winds unchecked by the borders of time, wandering with light feet over the land mines and trip wires, barbed and barbarian, unfettered through the barriers that curtail the flows of life, poets pelting the halting barriers which strangle everyone everywhere.

Peter Standish Evans

#10. Only think about the raindrops. Only listen to the sound of the rain pelting the earth. Only feel the chill. Don't think about her. Don't think about her lips. Don't think about her body. Her smile. Her laugh. Her eyes ... the way she looks at you. The way she looks at him. Fuck.

S.C. Stephens

#11. She left the porch pelting her back with unasked questions. They hoped the answers were cruel and strange.

Zora Neale Hurston

#12. Moaning Myrtle burst into anguished sobs and fled from the dungeon. Peeves shot after her, pelting her with moldy peanuts, yelling, Pimply! Pimply!

J.K. Rowling

#13. People who don't marry miss both the pelting hardships of marriage and its warm rewards.

Ada Calhoun

#14. The next time you have a quarrel with me, I'd appreciate it if you could just talk to me first before resorting to pelting me with rocks.

Susan Ee

#15. Pleasantly, between the pelting showers, the sunshine gushes down.

William C. Bryant

#16. And, instead of pelting these babbling idiots with their own freshly toasted marshmallows, everyone else sitting around the fire is often nodding and smiling and looking solemny thoughtful.

Stephen King

#17. I wish you joy of your unhappiness, since you cling to it so.

Mason Cooley

#18. Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.

Elmore Leonard

#19. I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver.

Nile Rodgers

#20. Washington is rigged for the big guys - and no person has more consistently called them out for it than Jon Stewart. Good luck, Jon!

Elizabeth Warren

#21. With too little data, you won't be able to make any conclusions that you trust. With loads of data you will find relationships that aren't real ... Big data isn't about bits, it's about talent.

Douglas Merrill

#22. Marriage is like a long conversation that always ends too soon.

Cassandra Clare

#23. Honestly, it's been amazing to be a part of this journey on 'Veronica Mars.'

Ryan Hansen

#24. Now, can't you lean on me for once?

Sakura Tsukuba

#25. The mind does not take its complexion from the skin ...

Frederick Douglass

#26. You know, party every day until 6 a.m. and then sleep during the day.

Svetlana Kuznetsova

#27. This was a clever man, as clever as Alfred, and he knew that weakness invited war.

Bernard Cornwell

#28. An enlightened zeal for the energy and efficiency of government will be stigmatized, as the offspring of a temper fond of despotic power, and hostile to the principles of liberty.

Alexander Hamilton

#29. Its [Dreams from My Father] also a reflection about how we might start a better conversation in our democracy about how to solve problems, because it feels as if our political system - it just seems there is so much cynicism and negativity in our politics.

Barack Obama