Puncture Quotes

#1. Racist words and vulgar threats will puncture down deep to the soul.

Angela Brown

#2. For the plain people of Ireland ... If your car's got a puncture, and you know its got a puncture and its still got a puncture after two weeks, then you don't know how how to change a tyre.

Eamon

#3. As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.

James Ellroy

#4. emerged, the puncture wounds they'd caused oozing blood onto the straw.

John McEvoy

#5. Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

#6. There is no such thing as a minor operation. Any opening, incision, cut, gash or puncture in the human body not put there by God is a blasphemy and a major disaster.

Samuel Taylor

#7. A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quickly than reason or logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

Moss Hart

#8. I doubt there's anything you could say to Donald Rumsfeld that would puncture the armor of his narcissism.

Phil Klay

#9. She prunes the idea away like a faded rose blossom, and quickly discards it as if the thorns might puncture her resolve.

Beth Neff

#10. Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

Virginia Woolf

#11. I don't know if this is an illusion but I would love to be able to take my card-throwing skills and be able to puncture a watermelon. Now I know I can take this question and say, "I would want to solve the economic problems in the world" - but I want to stick that card in that watermelon.

Dave Franco

#12. I craned my neck to see his face, which was pointed toward the wall. What looked like a puncture mark was visible on his neck. I held my fingers to a pulse point. The beating was faint. No wonder this man was the most quiet grown-up in the library. He was dying.

Shari Hearn

#13. Wonder too ... if the rent in the canvas of our life backdrop, the losses that puncture our world, our own emptiness, might actually become places to see.

Ann Voskamp

#14. So many things are lost in the dark. A slight misstep and we lose our footing. A quick hand in a pocket and we lose our money. A coat hanger in a womb and we lose a fetus. A swift puncture and we lose a life.

Pat Henshaw

#15. Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.

Martin Parr

#16. Maybe that is why in my comedy I try and puncture the hypocrisy all around us, why it is almost a crusade with me to strip life down to what really is true.

Joan Rivers

#17. We need a few trusted naysayers in our lives, critics who are willing to puncture our protective bubble of self-justifications and yank us back to reality if we veer too far off. This is especially important for people in positions of power.

Carol Tavris

#18. No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

Abraham Verghese

#19. I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and a cork-shaped bruise in my cleavage.

Molly Harper

#20. You travel with a whetstone on your arm? (Kiara)
You don't ever want to kill someone with a dull knife. It takes too long to sever their arteries, or puncture organs, and it makes it even messier than normal. (Nykyrian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#21. We get used to a certain kind of colour of form or format, and it's acceptable. And to puncture that is sticking your neck out a bit. And then pretty soon, that's very acceptable.

Lee Krasner

#22. For my mother's entire life, her mother was less a mother than splintered bits of shrapnel she carried around in her body, sharp, rusty debris that threatened to puncture an organ if she turned a certain way.

Meghan Daum

#23. Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds

Lisa Kleypas

#24. Oh, for a pin that would puncture pretension!

Isaac Asimov

#25. I work best when people are here to puncture me.

Tom Bergeron

#26. Sleeping beauty awoke at the kiss of a scientist and expired at the fatal puncture of his syringe.

Ray Bradbury

#27. There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.

Jodi Picoult

#28. Firearms, if you think about it, are power tools. They drill holes in things and chew things up. That's their purpose. The purpose of the user is, quite simply, to puncture and destroy the right things and not the wrong things.

Massad Ayoob

#29. He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a lonely lunatic cell looking for a mate - they would set up housekeeping and raise themselves a cozy little malignant tumor.

Stephen King

#30. My ceiling's broken, my car's got a puncture and we've just lost two matches. But I've got my health and I'll ask the big man upstairs why he didn't give us a point.

Ian Holloway

#31. I've never really fancied Mexican food. A taco rather minds me of a puncture outfit.

Sean Connery

#32. I hate news and information and anything that threatens to puncture the bubble of oblivion in which I live.

Augusten Burroughs

#33. There will be hoards of vampire bats descending on Beverly Hills ... We'll see if they can find any real flesh to puncture. I don't know.

Lucy Lawless

#34. There was something about Gawain's youth and credulity that was driving me to puncture his pious innocence.

Bernard Cornwell

#35. I have a needle being stuck into my spine, can anyone please define "a little pain"?

Pandora Poikilos