Roughened Quotes

#1. Open your eyes." His voice caressed her as surely as his work-roughened hands did. "Open your eyes and come with me.

Jill Shalvis

#2. The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.

Ellen Glasgow

#3. A hint of sensual frustration roughened his voice.
And I will curse the gods along with them, Min. Some wild monsoon raged through me as I looked at you just now. It's left me rearranged inside, and I don't have a map.

Tessa Dare

#4. He didn't understand what happened to him. He felt like a piece of paper that had once had coherent writing on it but had been through the wash. He felt roughened, bleached, and worn out along the fold lines.

Jonathan Franzen

#5. It had never occurred to him that the body of a woman of fifty, blown up to monstrous dimensions by childbearing, then hardened, roughened by work til it was coarse in the grain like an overripe turnip, could be beautiful. But is was so, and after all, he thought, why not?

George Orwell

#6. Summers that slapped you in the face like a dog's tongue.

Lauren Oliver

#7. Every three weeks before an election the TV ads expressing great concern about our trade policy and the loss of jobs to China and other low-wage countries. And then it's forgotten about the day after the election.

Bernie Sanders

#8. There is nothing wrong with loving musical theatre, but I think that it's naive to hold it superior any other musical classification, especially since these other genres have been influencing Broadway more and more in recent decades.

Stephanie D'Abruzzo

#9. During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.

Lytton Strachey

#10. Marmite is my little English touch, and I'm crazy for chutneys.

Stephen Moyer

#11. Freshman want to play. Sophomores want to start. Juniors want to score. Seniors want to win

John Beilein

#12. Maybe their whole army was just made up of players. Except Ator'aq, Olivia noticed. He had made the rounds in the bar, but he left alone, to the visible disappointment of pretty much every female in the bar and the relief of every male.

Calista Skye

#13. The novel is perhaps the highest art form because it so closely resembles life: it is about human relationships. It's technique, page by page, resembles our technique of living day by day
a way of relating.

Joyce Carol Oates

#14. Some days just being awake is too much input.

Tina J. Richardson

#15. The more we get to know about our universe, the more the hypothesis that there is a Creator God, who designed the universe for a purpose, gains in credibility as the best explanation of why we are here.

John C. Lennox

#16. Berkshire's past record has been almost ridiculous. If Berkshirehad used even half the leverage of, say, Rupert Murdoch, it would be five times its current size.

Charlie Munger

#17. Mum would have a panic attack if she had to stand up and give a speech around a table.

Lily James

#18. There is always room at the top, don't let them tell you there is not.

Adam Ant