Seldom Used Quotes

#1. The place whereon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its flesh for the gods. The word is now seldom used, except with reference to the sacrifice of their liberty and peace by a male and a female fool.

Ambrose Bierce

#2. I came out of retirement to run a start-up. Historically, I seldom used all of my vacation time, and the last sick day I took was in 1992. I am a sick puppy.

Maynard Webb

#3. Greeks are born talkers," wrote Harriet. The deputies were no exception, with or without their twirling conversation beads. They seldom used notes, at times she wished they had; a few facts and figures would have been a relief from the sweeping statements.

Mary Allsebrook

#4. I was surprised and mawkishly heartbroken. I am always moved by that seldom-used treasure, the sweetness with which most girls can sing.

Kurt Vonnegut

#5. Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. An hour seldom passed in which she didn't either sneeze, pick her nose, or wipe a bogie onto her snot-encrusted sleeve. But she had such a lovely colour. That pink glow which comes with the flu used to engulf her like an aura. It suited her. She always looked so damn effervescent.

Joss Sheldon

#7. People who refuse to step out and be used by God become the critics of those who do. Risk takers, the ones who thrill the heart of God, become the targets of those who never fail because they seldom try.

Bill Johnson

#8. All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs.

Vladimir Nabokov

#9. He knew she had been telling the truth when she told him she seldom asked for help. It was clear in her every interaction with him - in her speech , even in the way she held herself- that she was used to standing alone.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#10. Even the potted fern seemed to hold its breath. Harold

Rachel Joyce

#11. I do not think that the nerve of the modern child is any too good; how can one expect it, brought up as they are amongst all the horrors of civilization. The 'daring' child who used to be common enough, is seldom met nowadays.

Muriel Wace

#12. My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

Phil McGraw

#13. Man is not only that creature that forges tools, that reasons, and that walks upright. Man is the creature that looks up. Man praises.

Anthony Esolen

#14. I'm not really interested in a ton of female musicians but there is something about Britney that compelled me - the way she sings and just the way she looks.

Lana Del Rey

#15. So rest a while, we can talk in the cool of the evening. Or the cool of the morning. There 's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was.
-Hawk
Who had been Archmage
The Other Wind

Ursula K. Le Guin

#16. I believe in the saying, 'If you aim at nothing, you're going to hit nothing.' So if you don't set goals, then you have nowhere to go.

Taylor Lautner

#17. Very seldom in my fiction have I directly used the stories people have told me. I think ripping off people's lives in fiction is dangerous. It also lacks imagination.

Colum McCann

#18. There's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#19. I wasn't in the habit of spewing out personal facts in a church setting. While I was here, I was bound and determined to keep it to myself. If no one was going to stand up and shout, "I'm straight," then I wasn't going to wave my Pride flag.

Wade Kelly

#20. Every poem can be considered in two ways
as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes.

C.S. Lewis