Scuttle Quotes

#1. It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved, the way he held a hammer, rowed a boat, built a fire. I, on the other hand, was like a brain in a box, a beating heart in a coal scuttle.

Meg Rosoff

#2. Scuttle no small plans. They have no magic to stir single issue individuals into a group of people against everything.

Daniel Burnham

#3. I didn't even watch the soaps when I was in them because it's like a coal miner coming home and staring at the coal scuttle - I was never a great lover of watching myself act.

Ross Kemp

#4. Too ridged an image of how things should be can completely scuttle any potential success.

Steven Redhead

#5. You, you are a cockroach. No matter how many times we tried to get rid of you, you kept finding a way to scuttle your way back. And as much as I don't like you, well, you are persistent. And even I can admire you that.

Rachel E. Carter

#6. Out of some subway scuttle, cell or loft
A bedlamite speeds to thy parapets,
Tilting there momently, shrill shirt ballooning,
A jest falls from the speechless caravan.

Hart Crane

#7. When Stephen comes into a room, the furnishings shrink from him. Chairs scuttle backwards. Joint-stools flatten themselves like pissing bitches. The woollen Bible figures in the king's tapestries lift their hands to cover their ears.

Hilary Mantel

#8. You can find good reasons to scuttle your equities in every morning paper and on every broadcast of the nightly news.

Peter Lynch

#9. To scuttle a boat you don't have to rip out the whole bottom, you just need to remove a few planks, one by one.

Amitav Ghosh

#10. I open my scuttle at night and see the far-sprinkled systems, All all I see multiplied as high as I can cipher edge but the rim of the farther systems. Wider and wider they spread, expanding, always expanding, Outward and outward and forever outward.

Walt Whitman

#11. No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street.

Robert Wilson Lynd

#12. It a heasy t'ing to live for de lightnin' crack hillumination of possession.
It heasy to hide in de dark o' faith, pretendin' dat anyt'in' dat skitter an' scuttle in de night is jus' bad himagination.
It a heasy t'in' jus' to stay where you at. Grow roots. Vegetate. Be a potato.

Dave McKean

#13. People outdoors here just scuttle in vectors from air conditioning to air conditioning. The sun is a hammer. I can feel one side of my face start to cook. The blue sky is glossy and fat with heat, a few thin cirri sheared to blown strands like hair at the rims.

David Foster Wallace

#14. On more than one occasion David, in his urge to explore the darker corners of the bookshelves, had found himself wearing strands of spider silk in his face and hair, causing the web's creator to scuttle into a corner and crouch balefully, lost in thoughts of arachnoid revenge.

John Connolly

#15. don't allow your heart to play games with your head. Stay focussed and in the present. Otherwise, all you will do is scuttle your dreams.

Fahad Samar

#16. Crabgrass is aptly descriptive of this hated weed, for it does scuttle quickly through a lawn.

Allen Lacy

#17. 27. Why do you complain, Jacob? Why do you say, Israel, My way is hidden from the LORD;

Anonymous

#18. I barely heard him over the singing in my heart.

Kay Honeyman

#19. The world is a dysfunctional place in so many ways. It is unstable. So even though that chaos can be reflected in our own homes, I suppose we have to fight that by creating our own versions of safety, which can also turn into ignoring the state of the world.

Jennifer Gilmore

#20. The era of bell curve distributions that supported a bulging social middle class is over and we are headed for the power-law distribution of economic opportunities. Education per se is not going to make up the difference.

Erik Brynjolfsson

#21. Diplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail.

John F. Kennedy

#22. We are so surrounded with this fortune that we tend to forget that though subjectively in abundance, objectively this is a rarity.

Chris Matakas

#23. I think it's chauvinistic to think that women don't like to get scared.

Jerry O'Connell

#24. We are all ill: but even a universal sickness implies an idea of health.

Lionel Trilling

#25. Publication - is the auction of the mind ...

Emily Dickinson

#26. I'm . . . accustomed to being alone. There are times when alone is the best place to be. I enjoy my own company.

Sara Naveed

#27. I have every kind of control, and I have learned them over decades and decades, and I am using them all not to push you up against the bookcase and kiss you until neither of us can breathe."
She lifted her chin. "And what would be wrong with that?

Cassandra Clare

#28. Members of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate are not there by accident. Each managed to get there for some reason. Learn what it was and you will know something important about them, about our country and about the American people.

Donald Rumsfeld

#29. I'm a ball of rage right now, James. Sitting isn't gonna do much.

Robin Benway