Rankles Quotes

#1. I'm not sure anyone gets completely over their first love, and that still rankles.

Stephen King

#2. Even though the National Guard and Army Reserve see combat today, it rankles me that people assume it was some kind of waltz in the park back then.

Larry David

#3. People have invoked the ghost of Hemingway quite a few times in writing about the book. I could get into sticky territory here if I let myself go on about this subject. The more I hear it, the more it rankles, frankly.

Ron Currie Jr.

#4. In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#5. I'm not sure anybody ever gets completely over their first love, and that still rankles. Part of me still wants to know what was wrong with me. What I was lacking.

Stephen King

#6. It rankles me when somebody tries to force somebody to do something.

John Wayne

#7. You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word and a blow. But the thing that rankles is hurt vanity. That sticks. Humiliation. And we've all got a sore spot we don't like to have touched.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#8. So much of creativity is the feeling that you're either getting a gift from some other dimension or some other part of yourself.

John Hodgman

#9. When you're a front man for a band, there's nowhere to hide. It took me a long time to get used to that. But music is my first love. I started singing when I talked.

Gloria Estefan

#10. If you wanna take the fucking island burn your fucking boats; and you will take the island 'cause people when they're gonna either die or succeed, tend to succeed.

Tony Robbins

#11. Judge people less on their mistakes than on how they handle their mistakes

Ron Hall

#12. Arnold Schwarzenegger's publicist told USA Today that the actor has not ruled out running for governor of California, saying that he will make a decision soon. Reportedly Arnold needs that time to learn how to pronounce 'gubernatorial.'

Jimmy Fallon

#13. Sorrow is what I feel for people who aren't doing what they love. I keep my distance from them as though they're contagious. They are, I believe.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#14. Her silence was the blank space between the words.

Paulo Coelho