Pincushions Quotes

#1. Once guns were made, who would unmake them? Barrels rested on shoulders and bristled like pincushions above the crowd. There were things, like spoken ideas, that were almost impossible to take back. And he reckoned his people were about to make many more of them.

Hugh Howey

#2. We have to get out of here, Bram. Before they take our bollocks and use them for pincushions.

Tessa Dare

#3. Pincushions. I'm a long time threatening to buy one. Sticking them all over the place. Needles in window curtains.

James Joyce

#4. A brown composition, which looked like diluted pincushions without the covers, and was called porridge.

Charles Dickens

#5. Concentrate on what is important, not what is urgent.

Debasish Mridha

#6. Annie died the other day
never was there such a lay
whom,among her dollies,dad
first("don't tell your mother")had

E. E. Cummings

#7. It's a challenge, writing about actors, especially a good actor, because you can't always tell when they're being honest and when they're pretending - that is, when they're acting. The really good ones don't always seem to know themselves.

Rich Cohen

#8. And she was mine, she was mine, the key was in my fist, my fist was in my pocket, she was mine.

Vladimir Nabokov

#9. [Referring to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde] ... Will civilization never reach humane ideals? Will men always punish most severely the sins they do not understand and which hold forth for them no temptation? Did Jesus suffer in vain?

Frank Harris

#10. Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment ... is like a qualifying examination. If a fiction can't provide that, we may be excused from inquiring into its higher qualities.

C.S. Lewis

#11. There's always another story. There's more than meets the eye.

W. H. Auden

#12. God deliver me from people who are so spiritual that they want to turn everything into perfect contemplation, come what may.

Teresa Of Avila