Savaging Quotes

#1. Captain Niall, having apparently resigned himself to losing his quarry, was savaging her horsehair petticoat into teeny, tiny shreds.
Really, what did my poor petticoat do to offend?

Gail Carriger

#2. They'd dueled in the lamplight of her kitchen that night, savaging each other with accusations that could never be recalled. Now, he couldn't remember half of what they'd said, only the colors and lights and seething tide of fear all around them. He could still taste the acrid burn of unfairness.

Lauren Gilley

#3. I beheld and still behold in anger and agony the eagerness of the world to throw piles of shit on those of us who want to savage or simply cannot help but savage the norms that so desperately need savaging.

Maggie Nelson

#4. 1900 was a bit of mixed bag, it seems to me, on the one hand, because this is the year when this country becomes the premiere producer of manufactured goods. Clearly, a lot of people were making a lot of money, but it's also a time that reflects the savaging of one of the deepest depressions.

David Levering Lewis

#5. I don't care for werewolves. They're all right, I guess, if you go for the shedding, savaging the country-side thing. But they're not very scary nor very sexy and so what's the point?

Maggie Stiefvater

#6. It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago. They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped.

John Humphrys

#7. In America, Walt Disney opened an amusement park.
And in Florence, someone was savaging the remnants of a Tuscan nobleman's family.

Chris Bohjalian

#8. Many husbands today pitch in to help with household chores - it's called partnership.

Abigail Van Buren

#9. Look, man, I don't know what you're talking about. They put me in here last night, I slept in that bed" - he pointed to the one with the rumpled sheet and blanket - "and I woke up about five minutes ago and took a pee.

James Dashner

#10. Power, as Max Weber wrote, is the ability to make others do what you want them to do and what they wouldn't do otherwise.

Richard Lachmann

#11. Death, though, was part of life. There could not be life without death always shadowing it.

Terry Goodkind

#12. where did these people their food? i'm hungry.

Robert E. Howard

#13. There's a bit more of a safe distance when you're making a narrative movie, a bit more perspective. Audiences can separate themselves from the harsh reality of the facts a little bit more and think: 'Okay, how do I consider this?'

Tom McCarthy

#14. One should learn to connect the bridge between the heart and the mind. That's what crowns you with eternity, and makes you the master of your own life rather than a slave of someone else's.

Iva Kenaz

#15. I want you to kick Egg, Tea and Clipper out of the band!" - Daisy

Jamie Scallion

#16. I attacked my cancer diagnosis the same way I attack training and competing, and that's pretty fearless.

Eric Shanteau

#17. If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.

Iain Sinclair

#18. I like Brando's acting ... and James Dean ... and Richard Widmark. Quite a few of 'em I like.

Elvis Presley