Ruptured Quotes

#1. Within minutes, mounds of concrete and earth were stacked and piled. The streets were ruptured veins. Blood streamed till it was dried on the road, and the bodies were stuck there, like driftwood after the flood.

Markus Zusak

#2. They're not particular whether you're playing a flat 5th or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance.

Dizzy Gillespie

#3. They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it.

Dizzy Gillespie

#4. Not even. Bruised pretty good. The impact ruptured your spleen. They couldn't repair it." She gives a dismissive wave of her hand. "Don't worry, you don't need one. And if you did, they'd find you one, wouldn't they? It's everybody's job to keep you alive." "Is that

Suzanne Collins

#5. To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen.

Richard Lewontin

#6. At the moment of death, when the seed atom in the heart is ruptured, which contains all the experience of the past life in a panoramic picture, the spirit leaves its physical body, taking with it the finer bodies.

Max Heindel

#7. I did. I understood all too well, as much as I hated it. This was why we ignored each other. When she walked away the first time, my damn heart ruptured and I swore I'd never let it happen again. Like an idiot, here I was setting off explosives.

Katie McGarry

#8. And turnips - endless ruptured turnips.

Merrie Haskell

#9. Taft was Roosevelt's handpicked successor. I didn't know how deep the friendship was between the two men until I read their almost four hundred letters, stretching back the to early '30s. It made me realize the heartbreak when they ruptured was much more than a political division.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#10. Five toms bound and gagged. One ruptured scrotum ...

Rachel Vincent

#11. I ruptured my plantaris muscle. It runs through the calf and goes down the side of your achilles and stretches right to the heel.

Lee Westwood

#12. The possibility that lysosomes might accidentally become ruptured under certain conditions, and kill or injure their host-cells as a result, was considered right after we got our first clues to the existence of these particles.

Christian De Duve

#13. In the Shreve High football stadium,
I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville,
And gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood,
And the ruptured night watchman of Wheeling Steel,
Dreaming of heroes.

James Wright

#14. I have these obsessions that I do not completely understand, with the deep mark, with the ruptured surface, with scars and traces, traces that human beings are leaving on the earth. It is not a comment on the environment ... it is metaphysical.

Sophie Ristelhueber

#15. If there's magic in boxing, it's the magic of fighting battles beyond endurance, beyond cracked ribs, ruptured kidneys and detached retinas. It's the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you.

Paul Haggis

#16. you ruptured
the love lakes
of my longing
and scattered
the continents
of my heart.

K.Y. Robinson

#17. Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

Richard M. DeVos

#18. I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix ... I buried a good many people that I knew, some of whom I loved.

Tommy Douglas

#19. The damage that the human body can survive these days is as awesome as it is horrible: crushing, burning, bombing, a burst blood vessel in the brain, a ruptured colon, a massive heart attack, rampaging infection. These conditions had once been uniformly fatal.

Atul Gawande

#20. Two things have always ruptured up and through hegemony: art and bodies.

Lidia Yuknavitch

#21. I try not to notice the exploded eyeballs or the ruptured tongue bursting through the blackened lips. This job is quite gross enough as it is without adding my own dry heaves to the mess.

Charles Stross

#22. A terrorist bomb not only killed its victims, but forced a violent rift through time and space, and ruptured the logic that held the world together.

J.G. Ballard

#23. Any woman who counts on her face is a fool.

Zadie Smith

#24. Every madman considers everyone else a madman.

Publilius Syrus

#25. A musician should only sound like what they do, and no two musicians sound the same. It's an individual-feel thing, you know?

Dave Grohl

#26. I can protect my heart now that I know better - now that I know love never works out in the end. Right?

Addison Moore

#27. He'd still be who he was, and that, it seemed to him, was the basic problem.

Nick Hornby

#28. I'd assume love was safe, like ordering the same thing at a restaurant every single time. I didn't realize that it could be a greasy roadside sandwich and vomiting, followed by a conversation that made time slow down and my heart speed up.

Alicia Thompson

#29. Metaphorically, IT is the nervous system of the enterprise body.

Pearl Zhu

#30. Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

Gale Norton

#31. Already the rain had become an element of life like the air Mark breathed, and when it stopped, he missed it somehow, and found himself listening for the drip, drip, drip that seemed now a necessary and comforting component of his life.

Margaret Craven

#32. No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#33. There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.

Dante Alighieri