Punctures Quotes

#1. LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind of contest in which, the vanquished being unconscious of defeat, the victor is denied the reward of success.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. Don't roll your eyes. It punctures my dramatic moment. I want my dramatic moment unpunctured.

Cassandra Clare

#3. BREAVMAN KNOWS a girl named Shell whose ears were pierced so she could wear the long filigree earrings. The punctures festered and now she has a tiny scar in each earlobe. He discovered them behind her hair.

Leonard Cohen

#4. The weight of God's glory, not illusory or ephemeral, but daily and everywhere, punctures earth's lid and heaven falls through the holes.

Ann Voskamp

#5. Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind. The pines taught me to talk to myself. In that garden I learnedto send myself off. Later there were no gardens.

Octavio Paz

#6. Funny way to get to a wizards' school, the train. Magic carpets all got punctures, have they?

J.K. Rowling

#7. Wear the Spanx. You might not want to squeeze them over your ass in the morning, but when you see that mac and cheese at lunch (do it, you beautiful monster) you'll be glad they're there, doing the lord's work.

Anna Kendrick

#8. [Jack] Kerouac was writing fiction. What he did when he wrote about me ... he made me out with Russian Countesses and Swiss accounts and other things I didn't have or didn't happen and so on.

William S. Burroughs

#9. While the innocent yearned to lose their innocence, those who had already done so in turn envied the innocent, and knew grief in what they had lost. Between the two, no exchange of truths was possible.

Steven Erikson

#10. Peabody, you never cease to amaze me."
"One day I'll tell you about my granny and her five lovers."
"Five lovers isn't abnormal for a woman's lifetime."
"Not in her lifetime; last month. All at the same time." Peabody glanced up, deadpan. "She's ninety-eight. I hope to take after her.

J.D. Robb

#11. The life of the person sentenced to this punishment trickled away drop by drop.

Holger Kersten

#12. Boxing and wrestling are evidence that mankind has not rid itself of all savage behavior.

Muammar Al-Gaddafi

#13. When you think of couponing, you picture a mom cutting coupons out of the back of the newspaper.

Andrew Mason

#14. ... the amount of maintenance involving hair is genuinely overwhelming. Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.

Nora Ephron

#15. The only thing that could pull me away, was hard work.

Ray Lewis

#16. All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.

Harvey Milk

#17. The poet is rather one who inspires than one inspired.

Paul Eluard

#18. No one should be left to suffer alone.

Daisaku Ikeda

#19. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view ... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

Harper Lee