Quotes About Sockets

#1. Daffodil bulbs instead of balls
Stared from the sockets of the eyes!
He knew that thought clings round dead limbs
Tightening its lusts and luxuries.

T. S. Eliot

#2. When I first met Billy I thought about sucking his eyes right out of their sockets. They're like turquoise gum drops.

Jo Treggiari

#3. Paul confronted his son then, aiming the eyeless sockets at Leto. "Do you really know the universe you have created here?

Frank Herbert

#4. Oh yeah, that's the one who kept watching me as if she was waiting for me to grow fangs and try to eat her. I couldn't help it - I used my claws to scratch my nose. Her eyes almost popped out of their sockets.

Nalini Singh

#5. Sockets are the X windows of IO interfaces.

Rob Pike

#6. Set screamed something in Ancient Egyptian. I was fairly sure it wasn't a compliment.
"I will rend your limbs from their sockets!" he shouted. "I will - "
"Die?" Carter suggested.

Rick Riordan

#7. Blank eyes stared from sunken sockets as if the divine force, the daimon, had been extinguished like a lamp, replaced by a weariness beyond description, a stare without effect, the hollow gaze of hell itself.

Pressfield, Steven

#8. Zacharias's study bore the marks of his predecessors, whose taste had run decidedly stoicheiotical. They had had a fondness for skulls with burning lights in their eye sockets, crystal balls in which mysterious shapes came and went, and dark velvet window curtains traced with obscure runes.

Zen Cho

#9. What opposite discoveries we have seen!
(Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.)
One makes new noses, one a guillotine,
One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets;
But vaccination certainly has been
A kind antithesis to Congreve's rockets, ...

Lord Byron

#10. How dare you open a spaceman's helmet on an uncharted planet? My eyeballs could've been sucked from their sockets!

Cathy East Dubowski

#11. The abandoned traffic lights stare at us like empty eye sockets. Fields have gone to weed. There's a little town of houses that have been haphazardly repaired by boards and scraps of metal.

Lauren DeStefano

#12. Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves. We are left with sagging, rippled flesh and burning gums with empty sockets.

Raphael

#13. When they shall paint our sockets gray
And light us like a stinking fuse,
Remember that we once could say,
Yesterday we had a world to lose.

Stanley Kunitz

#14. I hate cats."
Death's face became a little stiffer, if that were possible. The blue glow in his eye sockets flickered red for an instant.
"I SEE," he said. The tone suggested that death was too good for cat haters.

Terry Pratchett

#15. 12And this shall be e the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.

Anonymous

#16. His eyes rolled in their sockets like a panicked horse's.

Richard K. Morgan

#17. All but Death, can be Adjusted -
Dynasties repaired -
Systems - settled in their Sockets -
Citadels dissolved . . .

Emily Dickinson

#18. It felt like her brain had become writhing worms inside of her skull, trying to escape through her eye sockets.

S.M. Reine

#19. First, however, and feeling real excitement at the thought, the good burst of adrenaline at last, Behringer wanted to dismantle the sockets and loosen his patient's eyes. Behringer

Jonathan Lethem

#20. The light flickers on all of us and makes us look softer and more beautiful than we really are. But sometimes it makes us darker and scarier too, when the faces go into shadow and you can't see the eyes, only the eye sockets. Deep pools of blackness welling out of our heads. My

Margaret Atwood

#21. Where his eyes should've been, there was only fire, empty sockets glowing with miniature nuclear explosions.

Rick Riordan

#22. It did matter to get out of bed. There were webs to weave. Strings to grasp. Packages to deliver. Conversations to start. Thoughts to be expressed. Sams to slam into. Oceans to swim. And sad little men hiding in electrical sockets, waiting to be born of the human imagination.

Bud Macfarlane Jr.

#23. Lucifer's breath was like fire upon his skin. His eyes bulged from their sockets and he fought hard to breathe.

Shane K.P. O'Neill

#24. Their tunics bloodbright in a lampglow, black sockets of caps on their blond cropped polls.

James Joyce

#25. And I had the most disconcerting sensation: that in my memory she would look up from that game of solitaire and the sockets of her eyes would be empty.

Anne Rice

#26. would have seen a man with empty eye sockets,

Terry Hayes

#27. Death's face became a little stiffer, if that were possible. The blue glow in his eye sockets flickered red for an instant. I SEE, he said. The tone suggested that death was too good for cat-haters. YOU LIKE GREAT BIG DOGS, I IMAGINE.

Terry Pratchett

#28. He walked slowly into the middle of the clearing and looked steadily at the skull that gleamed as white as ever the conch had done and seemed to jeer at him cynically An inquisitive ant was busy in one of the eye sockets but otherwise the thing was lifeless. Or was it?

William Golding

#29. His eyes were rolling in their sockets, and his face had taken on the colour and expression of a devout tomato. I could see he loved like a thousand bricks.

P.G. Wodehouse

#30. I've seen elbows that broke eye sockets. I've seen a German goalkeeper just level a French guy. His teammates thought he was dead lying on the ground. This was in 1982 at my first World Cup. But a bite is outside any kind of contact collision: dirty foul play. A bite is a bite.

George Vecsey

#31. THE SKULL GLARED at me out of empty eye sockets.

Ilona Andrews

#32. Easy as a child breathes a wish at a dandelion ... is exactly how hard it would be for me to tear your limbs from their sockets.

Adam Levin

#33. I have one important question to ask you before I kiss you."
Kiss her? Her eyes had possibly bulged out of their sockets. Not good. "What?"
"Are you allergic to calamari?

Cari Silverwood

#34. I'm a phallus in pigtails, and there's blood on my nose, and my tissue is rotting where the rats chew my bones. And my eye sockets empty, see nothing but pain, I keep having this brainstorm about twelve times a day.

David Bowie

#35. AND NOW THERE REMAINS ONLY ONE FINAL QUESTION, he said. He raised his hands, and seemed to grow. Light flared in his eye sockets. When he spoke next, avalanches fell in the mountains. HAVE YOU BEEN NAUGHTY ... OR NICE? HO. HO. HO.

Terry Pratchett

#36. God is able to place stars in their sockets & suspend sky like a curtain; surely He is mighty enough to light your path.

Max Lucado

#37. How easily Neverland is corrupted into the deserted island of Lord of the Flies. How quickly Tinkerbell regresses to being one of the flies pestering the gouged eye sockets of the pig that the lost boys butcher.

Gregory Maguire

#38. It had to be Death. No-one else went around with empty eye sockets and, of course, the scythe over one shoulder was another clue.

Terry Pratchett

#39. His teeth sang in their individual sockets like tuning forks, each one pitch-perfect and clear as ethanol.

William Gibson