Pinging Quotes

#1. For some reason, I kept seeing it - it trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retina - a radiant child of twelve, sitting on a threshold, "pinging" pebbles at an empty can.

Vladimir Nabokov

#2. You couldn't hurt a fly.
Actually I was pretty good at pinging flies right out of the air, but I tried to look appropriately harmless.

Josh Lanyon

#3. Moths flitted in the porch light, pinging against the bulb, helplessly drawn to something they could never have.

Jamie Ford

#4. He was in uniform, gun at his hip, expression dialed to Dirty Harry, and just looking at him had something pinging low in Chloe's belly.

Jill Shalvis

#5. The intricate gears of her mind ticking silently at no one, thoughts pinging the closed windows like a trapped bee. p. 251

Celeste Ng

#6. As if she had summoned them, a flurry of stones flew out of the darkness, striking his mail, pinging off his helm. One hit his unprotected leg and he yelped and clutched it. That was a mistake. The second barrage was entirely directed at his legs.

Hilari Bell

#7. We both knew that what I said was the truth, as well as being a lie. The pure and honest answer was pinging between us, hovering above the weeds.

Sonya Hartnett

#8. The world is sagging, snagging, scaling, spalling, pilling, pinging, pitting, warping, checking, fading, chipping, cracking, yellowing, leaking, stalling, shrinking, and in dynamic unbalance.

Donald Barthelme

#9. I had thought so once
That it was I who saw in your eyes
The raindrops pinging on the windows;
Hearing only with ears
The stars and the rain;
Now that I truly open my eyes and ears
I realize that I am myself the stars and the rain.

Ilchi Lee

#10. When I die, my characters are going to spend forever pinging in the shadows and stars looking for brains to latch onto.

Lauren DeStefano

#11. Being hated by the right people was no impediment to success. The unpolished were everywhere the majority.

Rick Perlstein

#12. Getting older is reality, but getting old does not have to be.

Carol Stanley

#13. My family isn't posh; they're musicians.

Audrey Niffenegger

#14. You may not believe it, but standing up to people is the only way to get through life with your mind intact. Nothing was gained by giving in.

Diana Palmer

#15. The universe is a unity. Every material thing is in all things.
All things come from all, and all is in all things.

John Toland

#16. We cry to God for blessings but we do not really want him. He has to teach us that he is the greatest blessing of all.

John J. Murray

#17. Parties are a cruel kind of fun.

Caryl Churchill

#18. You have to be a great lover to be a beloved.

Debasish Mridha

#19. Anyone that goes to battle goes to battle knowing the mindset and tactics of their enemies.

Brad Thor

#20. Don't look outside in the world or in wilderness to find the peace, look inside your heart, where it resides.

Debasish Mridha

#21. I think something wonderful is going to happen to me. Maybe tomorrow. The phone can ring and your whole life can change.

Gloria Vanderbilt

#22. Are you trying to be who Jesus wants you to be? Or do you trust him to bring out who he has already created you to be? It is vital to recognize the difference between these two questions because one leads to death, the other leads to life.

Emily P. Freeman