Quotes About Getting Suspended

#1. You're not supposed to go anywhere. Jenny said you're grounded for getting suspended."
I snort.
"Damn, Hope," Guy sings. "You got suspended? I think we need to drop the P in your name 'cause you is a hoe.

Cheryl McIntyre

#2. Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from school, going on demonstrations.

Dan Stevens

#3. Can you see the future, Kerbouchard?"
"Who would wish to? Our lives hold a veil between anticipation and horror. Anticipation is the carrot suspended before the jackass to keep him moving forward. Horror is what he would see if he took his eyes off the carrot.

Louis L'Amour

#4. All life is a rhythm," she said as I sat up. "All death is a rhythm suspended, a syncopation before life
resumes.

Samuel R. Delany

#5. Last week John McCain said the fundamentals of our economy are strong. This week, he said it's the worst crisis since World War II. So he suspended his campaign, unless you count doing interviews, airing attack ads, sending out surrogates on TV to attack Obama.

Bill Maher

#6. The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.

Rabindranath Tagore

#7. 90. Look up at heaven and hell in the sky, for the stars are balls of fire suspended there by the angels.

Anne Rice

#8. Russia under President Putin is less democratic and less free today than when he assumed office. If Russia cannot fulfill its obligation to the G-8 and maintain a high standard of democratic governance then its membership should be suspended.

Vito Fossella

#9. When we are young the noise of general conversation seems much the most fun. When we grow up we discover the possibilities of the tete-a-tete. In maturity the monologue habit sets is. But now at last there is the chance to investigate the rich depth of the silence when the monologue is suspended.

Nanamoli Thera

#10. The rope longed-for her beloved, the ceiling hook.
The suspended body; a harbinger of good news.
Love was lost.
Love was found.

Chirag Tulsiani

#11. No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.

Theodore Bikel

#12. His heart is a suspended lute; As soon as you touch it, it resonates.

Edgar Allan Poe

#13. What really interests me about capturing and suspending movement is that I get to experience something invisible and inaudible, as elusive and fleeting as thought itself, and give it form ... Maybe my paintings are all just little fragments of the Cosmic Dance suspended in time.

James Nares

#14. I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.

Lawrence Durrell

#15. He had a strange way of talking, his head tucked into his neck and his eyes fixed in the empty space beyond, as if something were suspended there, ripe fruit or a glimmer of light, as if he were not quite brave enough, or perhaps too polite, to look a person in the eye.

Jan Ellison

#16. Whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the sea great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies. And enormous mother whales lie dreaming suckling their whale-tender young and dreaming with strange whale eyes wide open in the waters of the beginning and the end.

D.H. Lawrence

#17. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

#18. What is a star? Is stardom a kind of suspended adulthood? Is it a place beyond good and evil? Is a star a person you need to believe in--a daredevil, a risk-taker, a person who goes close to the edge without falling?

Kim Gordon

#19. I was in preschool and a girl actually kissed me on the cheek. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what it meant, so I instantly grabbed her face and kissed her on the lips. And, then I got suspended.

Jensen Ackles

#20. Shopping is never over," Susan said. "It is merely suspended.

Robert B. Parker

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

Ronald Reagan

#22. 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

#23. I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone to say, 'You're done forever, your life's over'?

George Steinbrenner

#24. There are moments that stop the heart, that catch the breath, that halt the beat of blood in your veins, and you are suspended in time, held between life and death, and you wait for something to bring you back again.

Robert Cormier

#25. Patrick: America is at war with an Afghan tribe...[?]

David: Yeah, it's a, uh, long story.

A.G. Riddle

#26. The effort, diligence, and care required in practicing must be quickly suspended when pressure coming from anxiety or a desire for fast results causes them to degenerate.

Paul Caponigro

#27. To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#28. I like how you're neither here nor there. And how there's nowhere else you're meant to be while waiting. You're just sort of suspended.

Jennifer E. Smith

#29. Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of science. Common sense tells us that massive satellites cannot hang suspended 36,000 kilometers above the one point on the earth's surface, but they do ...

E. O. Wilson

#30. In this way, I was able to place my own concerns aside and curl myself up in the cocoon of somebody else's imagination. My life was suspended - I was in neither one place nor the other.

Kate Kerrigan

#31. "Is it how she moves, or how she looks?" I say it's loneliness suspended to our own like grappling hooks, And as long as she's got noise, she's fine. But I could teach her how I learned to dance when the music's ended.

Dar Williams

#32. When all normal rules are suspended, and ordinary things that used to be important suddenly become meaningless.

L.J.Smith

#33. Her to look at a picture. She approached and saw the likeness of Mr. Wickham, suspended, amongst several other miniatures,

Jane Austen

#34. Do you know what geography really is?" Ted asked. "It's not the shapes of countries or a list of trade routes. Geography is a snapshot of war, plain and simple. It's a record of the state of hostile powers at a moment of suspended animation.

Christopher Bollen

#35. The distinction between indoors and outdoors, which in England is usually so marked, was temporarily suspended in a hot gauzy haze.

Quentin Crisp

#36. Men who are fatally struck usually take a moment to drop. He felt rather suspended in that moment.

Julie Anne Long

#37. John Kerry suspended his campaign for five days this week in honor of President Reagan. And right now, he's ahead in the polls. How's that make him feel? Disappears for a week and he's up in the polls. What else can he do now but go into hiding.

Jay Leno

#38. Sure you have feelings and you get emotional and angry but I kept everything inside because I think I still had that thought in my mind - I didn't want to get suspended again

Bjorn Borg

#39. One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along with the tide, suspended by my inflatable tube and water wings.

Ng Yi-Sheng

#40. There are often lists of the great living male movie stars. How often do you see the name of Nicolas Cage? He should always be up there. He's daring and fearless in his choice of roles, and unafraid to crawl out on a limb, saw it off and remain suspended in air.

Roger Ebert

#41. If you look out at nature, you find that as you tend to see suspended animation, you tend to see immortality. - MARK ROTH, PHD (CELL BIOLOGIST)

Blake Crouch

#42. There just didn't seem to be anything to hold on to. We weren't going anywhere, and we weren't pulling away. We were just floating, suspended in liquid. And I guess I want more. And I don't know what he wants.

Augusten Burroughs

#43. Airport bars are more like film sets, the bathrooms reminiscent of dormitories. Everyone is waiting to go somewhere, suspended in nowhere ...

Christy Hall

#44. My poor girl, what is the matter?' She looked up suddenly, with reddened eyes, and with her hands suspended, in the act of pinching her neck, freshly disfigured with great scarlet blots. 'It's nothing to you what's the matter. It don't signify to any one.

Charles Dickens

#45. Herman Cain has suspended his presidential campaign, but he has asked the Secret Service if they could continue to provide him protection, at least until his wife cools off.

David Letterman

#46. In the immortal germ line of human beings - that is, the eggs that sit in the ovaries - they actually sit there in a state of suspended animation for up to 50 years in the life of each woman.

Mark Roth

#47. Darkness is a strange thing - it is both infinite and confining; it holds you tight in its grasp, but it holds you suspended in a void. Silence operates in a similar way. Slowly the two combine to become a threat.
("Come Into My Parlour")

Reggie Oliver

#48. He saw himself in her eyes, suspended in two shining drops of bright water, himself
dark and tiny, in fine detail, the lines about his mouth, everything there, as if her eyes
were two miraculous bits of violet amber that might capture and hold him intact.

Ray Bradbury

#49. What would have become of Ohio State if I said everything? Half the team would have been suspended, and it would have been worse for everybody. I was like, 'Why don't I just take it?'

Maurice Clarett

#50. Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows.

John Buchanan Robinson

#51. ... quite naturally, I am curious about behaviour which does not fit the natural patterns, which floats suspended at some unexplored level of the sentient sea and defies the tides and waves of society.

David Case

#52. I don't care if half the league strikes. Those who do will encounter quick retribution. All will be suspended, and I don't care if it wrecks the league for 10 years. This is the United States of America, and one citizen has as much right to play as another.

Ford Frick

#53. Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
-William Wordsworth(Tintern Abbey)

William Wordsworth

#54. An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.

William Minto

#55. According to the text, numbering the people was nearly a year-long process, and there is no clear indication that God had suspended the initial

Ken Ham

#56. wind came up through the floor hole in such a way that the Heath wrappers were suspended behind my head in a noisy brown vortex

Charles Portis

#57. I remember the oily smoke of a cigarette suspended in a shaft of sunlight - with you, everything was beautiful ...

John Geddes

#58. What fragile and unknown threads the destinies of nations and the lives of men are suspended.

Alexandre Dumas

#59. They were suspended in time, in a peaceful moment together, with no threats or worries. In that moment, their hearts were full and near explosion.

Chelsie Shock

#60. Emotional honesty transcends reality; it's what allows disbelief to be suspended and yet what makes a story stay true.

Greg Rucka

#61. 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

#62. He was still wide awake when the morning came - the light changed imperceptibly underground, with the glowtrees flaring up brightly, and the shimmer of golden dust that remained suspended in the musty air, as if millions of butterflies had shed the scales of their wings in midair.

Ekaterina Sedia

#63. Awake and asleep the novel is with you, dogging your footsteps. Strange formless bits of material float out from the ether about you and attach themselves to the main body of the story as though they had hung suspended in air for years, waiting.

Edna Ferber

#64. And she saw beauty even in the tiny sparkles of dust suspended in the air, high above.

Rocio Sanchez

#65. It's the mathematical potential for a single game to last forever, in a suspended world where no clock rules the day, that aligns baseball as much with the dead as the living.

Bill Vaughn

#66. This was the weird part with me and Miller. We both hated each other, but even more than that, he wanted my money and I wanted my notebook back. Neither of us had said anything about it to Stricker, even when we both got suspended. It was like middle school Mafia or something.

James Patterson

#67. You exist in a half-world suspended between two superstructures, one self-expression and the other self-destruction. You are strong, but there is a flaw in your strength, and unless you can learn how to control it the flaw will prove stronger than your strength and defeat you.

Truman Capote

#68. The evening sun catches every bolt and scrap of metal on the train, and for an instant we are suspended in an atmosphere of stars.

Lauren DeStefano

#69. I'm suspended in the moment. I blink and bottle my breaths.

Tahereh Mafi

#70. For the learning of every virtue there is an appropriate discipline, and for the learning of suspended judgment the best discipline is philosophy.

Bertrand Russell

#71. The air stilled, suspended with unspoken words, heavy thoughts, and two people who couldn't look away from one another.

Jenny B. Jones

#72. We tend to forget that words are, themselves, ideas. They might be called ideas in a state of suspended animation. When the words are mastered the ideas tend to come alive again.

James Webb Young

#73. Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.

Jean Baudrillard

#74. To be on the safe and humane side, let every relative and friend ... remember the golden rule, which has never been suspended with respect to the insane. Go to see them, treat them sanely, write to them, keep them informed about the home circle; let not your devotion flag, nor accept any repulse.

Clifford Whittingham Beers

#75. I never want to be suspended in the limbo of non-decision again. It's like torturing yourself on purpose.

Siobhan Vivian

#76. What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.

Niels Bohr

#77. We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended.

Harry Belafonte

#78. Usually when I mention suspended animation, people will flash me the Vulcan sign and laugh.

Mark Roth

#79. Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.

Anne Lamott

#80. There are ghosts of yourself scattered everywhere,
Whispers of a moment suspended in time,
Where every life that you've brushed up against
Now lives with a piece of you trapped in their mind.

Erin Hanson

#81. Everything seemed suspended, in some kind of balance. Obviously someone would come along and fuck it up, because that's what other people did.

Mark Haddon

#82. The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.

P. J. O'Rourke

#83. For the first time I saw her as a dead body under suspended sentence.

Simone De Beauvoir

#84. Tom Brady was suspended 4 games for hiding evidence. Hillary should have to sit out first 4 primaries.

Jim Gilmore

#85. I just want to be floating, suspended here in my California time capsule with neither yesterday's dusk or tomorrow's dawn anywhere on the horizon.

Sarah Ockler

#86. The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkledtrophy.

Henry David Thoreau

#87. D'Artagnan was amazed to note by what fragile and unknown threads the destinies of nations and the lives of men are suspended. He

Alexandre Dumas

#88. Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning.

Clifford Geertz

#89. 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

#90. Physicists abandoned their belief in a Newtonian, material universe because they had come to realize that the universe is not made of matter suspended in empty space but energy.

Bruce H. Lipton

#91. There'll be a sky full of babies and their shit, suspended overhead. You do not want to get caught in that rain when it falls.

Stephen Baxter

#92. 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.

#93. Perhaps it was one of those mild, sunny winter days when you have a feeling of holiday and eternity-the illusory feeling that the course of time is suspended, and that you need only slip through this breach to escape the trap that is closing around you.

Patrick Modiano

#94. He suspended thinking; his mind was a bloody vacancy, like a room in which there has been a butchering.

Michael Shaara

#95. I have never seen anything like it: two little discs of glass suspended in front of his eyes in loops of wire. Is he blind?

J.M. Coetzee

#96. In the presence of real tragedy you feel neither pain nor joy nor hatred, only a sense of enormous space and time suspended, the great doors open to black eternity, the rising across the terrible field of that enormous, unanswerable question.

Michael Shaara

#97. And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it.

Sue Monk Kidd

#98. Job is perhaps the oldest piece of literature known to man. How did Job know the Earth is suspended in space? Job could only know through divine inspiration.

Adrian Rogers

#99. When there is a situation where one does not see demand for a year or two, then capex is suspended. It will reverse only when the situation improves.

Jamshyd Godrej

#100. I was proceeding slowly one afternoon through torrents of rain and kept seeing that red ghost swimming and shivering with lust in my mirror, when presently the deluge dwindled to a patter, and then was suspended altogether.

Vladimir Nabokov