Quotes About Being Suspended

#1. All of life is a trust fall, and I'm awakening to the thrill, rather than the fear, of being suspended midair.

Leigh Ann Henion

#2. I imagine myself as the broadcaster for a Cubs-White Sox World Series, a Series that would last seven games, with the final game going extra innings before being suspended because of darkness at Wrigley Field.

Jack Brickhouse

#3. I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.

Anna Funder

#4. We read literature for a number of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our own life stories and - especially important - to find ourselves by understanding our own life stories more clearly in the context of others.

Maureen Corrigan

#5. Aside from my mom, Carla, and my tutors, the world barely know I exist. I mean, I exist online. I have online friends and my Tumblr book reviews, but that's not the same as being a real person who can be visited by strange boys bearing Bundt cakes.

Nicola Yoon

#6. You can only avoid responsibility for so long. The catalyst ended up being the law coming down and finally saying, 'You guys suspended judgement and that's fine, because we're not.'

Rosario Dawson

#7. All of a sudden, you're not too proud to ask for help. That's what it means to surrender to God.

Marianne Williamson

#8. That's the way this business works: if your movies do well at the box office, you will be offered more movies. It doesn't matter if you're a nice guy or you're a prick. If your movies do well, there's a job waiting for you in Hollywood. It's not any more complicated than that.

Matt Damon

#9. It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#10. There was that same sense of being surrounded by the sleeping inhabitants of a waking world he had no interest in visiting or knowing, of dull business temporarily suspended, of futility and repetition soon to wake again.

William Gibson

#11. Modern man has the possibility of understanding the mechanism of consciousness, and marching directly towards his objective, with the will flexed to its maximum efficiency.

Colin Wilson

#12. Do you know what she did? Your cunting daughter?

William Peter Blatty

#13. The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation.

Kurt Vonnegut

#14. I was always the class clown and got kicked out of class at least once a day for just being a goofball. Not suspended or anything, just sit outside and look at the tree on the bench. I got benched a lot. You keep one foot on the bench and try to get as far away as possible.

Damon Wayans Jr.

#15. By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law, that is, the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during marriage.

William Blackstone

#16. There is nothing in biology yet found that indicates the inevitability of death. This suggests to me that it is not at all inevitable and that it is only a matter of time before biologists discover what it is that is causing us the trouble.

Richard P. Feynman

#17. Wine, like sex, was an immanent divine force, and the wash of its warm ecstasy was experienced as a communion with Dionysus. It is hard for us to appreciate the invisible but ubiquitous effects of wine in the Roman Empire.

Kyle Harper

#18. What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do.

John Guare

#19. Maybe late afternoon is autumn; summer's retreat
not being archived, but suspended, as the feathered
vane of a bird wings its way across the avenue.

Michelle Cahill

#20. To converse at the distance of the Indes by means of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future times as to us is a literary correspondence.

Joseph Glanvill

#21. You see a virus very differently when it's caught and suspended on a slab of glass than when you're observing how it's ravaged a fellow human being.

Hanya Yanagihara

#22. Yazoo is the name of an old blues label and also a town in America. I like it because it doesn't mean a thing, it has no immediate connotations. That's what I hate about so many names today - they're so obviously fashionable.

Alison Moyet

#23. Liberals are people who think that being tough on crime means longer suspended sentences.

Ronald Reagan

#24. I suppose a book is still a book, even if no one but the author and his wife reads it," she said.

John Wyndham