Top 100 Shin-ah Quotes

#1. Spar felt a tiny thud on the back of his shin, as if a moth had butted against him on its flight through the night air. Wait, had that been the small human? Had she kicked him? He could not tell by glancing at her face.

Christine Warren

Shin-ah Quotes #10287
#2. The boy's walk was as distinct as hers. He looked like someone who walked on air, rather than someone who lived with his feet on the ground.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #15124
#3. If you don't want to cook, you should try throwing a dish.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #40056
#4. The young should not think of themselves as immature and the elderly need not view themselves as feeble. Our minds control our bodies. Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into naka-ima - the eternal present.

H.E. Davey

Shin-ah Quotes #75470
#5. If I opened my mouth to say a single word, all of the other expired words would have followed and spilled to the ground, as if the string that held them together had snapped.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #102849
#6. A house takes on the characteristics of its occupant, and, depending on who lives in it, it can become a very good house or a very strange house.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #115338
#7. I though it was weird to see people sleeping. It scared me to see them with their eyes closed. Like they might never wake up again.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #128115
#8. Honestlythese two were not on the recommended list.

Park Shin-yang

Shin-ah Quotes #128583
#9. I had no way of knowing where it began or where it ended. Only that it flowed without restraint.

Shin Kyung-sook

Shin-ah Quotes #160781
#10. I didn't have anything to say to him, but I looked for him all the same.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #200531
#11. I walked behind my father on the way to her headstone, he looked like a house that was caving in.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #208028
#12. Life is like reading a third-rate novel written overnight upside down by a crazy drunk.

You're not supposed to try to get it.

Said by E-Wan

Ji-Sang Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #225952
#13. Everyone has his or her own means of defining value.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #227009
#14. Either a mother and daughter know each other very well or they are strangers.

Shin Kyung-sook

Shin-ah Quotes #227240
#15. Viewing the world from a different angle made it all look strange and dynamic, as if seeing it for the first time.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #227958
#16. I don't see why the likes o' thee
Without axin' leave should go makin' free
With the shank or the shin o' my father's kin;
So hand the old bone over!
Rover! Trover!
Though dead he be, it belongs to he;
So hand the old bnone over!

J.R.R. Tolkien

Shin-ah Quotes #243183
#17. At 49, I find it a little bit difficult to run these days. I've got grade four tears in both Achilles, shin splints, I got no cartilage the toes in my right foot, I've got bone marrow edemas under both knees, I've got one degenerating hip - that's the problem you get.

Russell Crowe

Shin-ah Quotes #249116
#18. You'll love Philadelphia," she said. "But watch out for the ladies who are putting on your shin-dig. There's a romance writing group near here in Erie, and let me just say - we've been called out to a few of their parties. Some of those chicks are decently hard-core.

K.C. Dyer

Shin-ah Quotes #257278
#19. Leave her be," he said. "She'll stop when she's ready.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #268641
#20. The Korean word for tree rose in his mind, surprising him, like a fish breaking the surface of a calm pond.

Sun Yung Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #308433
#21. Bitch."
"Slut."
"Whore."
"Cunt."
I kicked Joyce in the shin. I draw the line at cunt.

Janet Evanovich

Shin-ah Quotes #328903
#22. There were times when it felt as though my children were annihilating me (truly you have not lived until you have changed one baby's diaper while another baby quietly vomits on your shin) and finally I came to the thought: all right, then, annihilate me, that other self was a fiction anyhow.

Sarah Ruhl

Shin-ah Quotes #341914
#23. The shimmering, lucid tones and silver melancholy of I'll Be Right There give readers a South Korea peopled with citizens fighting for honor and intellectual freedom, and longing for love and solace. Kyung-Sook Shin's characters have unforgettable voices-it's no wonder she has so many fans.

Susan Straight

Shin-ah Quotes #359709
#24. Each time i thought about him, the idea that i would never be able to reach him spread through my mind like a shadow.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #363172
#25. At ten I asked my mother if I could start shaving my legs. My dark shin fur was hard to ignore in shorts weather,

Tina Fey

Shin-ah Quotes #367327
#26. The thought of life without her makes me feel like I'm trapped inside a cave.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #401554
#27. Except for a small strip of shin that poked out from between the top of his socks and the bottom of his pants, his legs were purely theoretical.

Tom Perrotta

Shin-ah Quotes #409346
#28. Maybe if we hug a hundred strangers, he said, something will change.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #425377
#29. He looked so silly that I could not stop laughing, even as my tears kept flowing. Is the root of laughter also sorrow? As I laughed, I was filled with both joy and sorrow.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #431591
#30. You never wondered, Did Mom like being in the kitchen?

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #432213
#31. I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.

Kate Adie

Shin-ah Quotes #433837
#32. Kiernan leans forward. "I'm guessing that's because you can make it work, Mr. Houdini. Maybe that's how you manage . . ." He pauses when my kick lands on his shin, but finishes the sentence anyway. ". . . some of your more elaborate escapes.

Rysa Walker

Shin-ah Quotes #433929
#33. How wonderful," he purred. "I've been longing to speak to you for days, Princess Cecelia."
"And I've been wanting to kick you in the shin for days.

Jessica Day George

Shin-ah Quotes #438071
#34. I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in his tongue, who combs his hair with Redi-Whip and has an Ani DiFranco tattoo on his shin, come show me how a computer works.

P. J. O'Rourke

Shin-ah Quotes #438551
#35. You'd think a guy who has broken 35 bones in his body would have a high pain threshold, but mine is pretty low. I got hit in the shin with a golf ball once, and it almost brought tears to my eyes. I've had broken bones that didn't hurt as bad.

Evel Knievel

Shin-ah Quotes #445209
#36. Do you even know what hammerd means?" I asked.
"Something to do with drinking your American beer out of a hole in the side of a can?"
Dave reached over and slapped him on the shin. "Close enough.

Jennifer Rardin

Shin-ah Quotes #479755
#37. Just as writing can become calligraphy when it's creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this case, we are reflecting upon life itself as an artistic statement - the art of living.

H.E. Davey

Shin-ah Quotes #491426
#38. He's got a knock on his shin there, just above the knee.

Frank Stapleton

Shin-ah Quotes #496166
#39. Thank you," she said, running her foot over his shin, "for loving me enough to let me fight my own battles.

Nalini Singh

Shin-ah Quotes #499016
#40. When I was 18, I broke my leg, and my shin came right through - like I had two knees.

Tony McCoy

Shin-ah Quotes #537922
#41. If it is stupid but it works, it isn't stupid.
(a Shin'a'in saying)

Mercedes Lackey

Shin-ah Quotes #544242
#42. Can I give you a word of advice?" Lucy asked.
"I suppose so."
"You have a great French accent. If a guy asks you to wear a French maid's costume, kick him in the shin."
"Especially if it's one of my brothers" Solange agreed.

Alyxandra Harvey

Shin-ah Quotes #546115
#43. Seth put his ear against the door. "I can't hear anything."
"There are probably ten of them patiently waiting on the far side, ready to pounce."
Brownies are shrimps. All I'd need are some heavy boots, a pair of shin guards, and a weed whacker."
The image made Kendra giggle.

Brandon Mull

Shin-ah Quotes #560812
#44. When Rose came up to me today in Potions and called me Bread Head I almost hugged her. No, there's no almost about it, I actually tried to hug her, and then she kicked me in the shin.

J.K. Rowling

Shin-ah Quotes #626581
#45. She's nothing more than a pathetic, little half-blood," the ancient woman had continued. "I say send her to the Masters. I'm in need of a little girl to clean my toilets."
Then she had twisted her fingers cruelly.
And I had kicked her shin.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Shin-ah Quotes #628396
#46. I wish to fill in the gaps which have so far always remained unanswered in the souls of men as burning questions, and which never leave any serious thinker in peace, if he honestly seeks the Truth.

ABD- RU-SHIN

Shin-ah Quotes #683818
#47. I'd been so lonely for touch that I'd run for miles at night with shin splints just to move through air. His arms, even in memory, were like a coat I could wear.

Kelle Groom

Shin-ah Quotes #735006
#48. When people call me a photographer, I always feel like something of a charlatan - at least in Japanese. The word shashin, for photograph, combines the characters sha, meaning to reflect or copy, and shin, meaning truth, hence the photographer seems to entertain grand delusions of portraying truth.

Hiroshi Sugimoto

Shin-ah Quotes #739750
#49. I run a lot. I have this five-mile run that I try and do a few times a week. If I do more, I get shin splints and it drives me mad, so I have to balance it.

Richard Hammond

Shin-ah Quotes #747319
#50. You left this house whenever you wanted to, and came back at your whim, and you never once thought that your wife would be the one to leave.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #763657
#51. She said that cats were more attached to places than to people. And that was why cats are often found in abandoned houses.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #772627
#52. I don't think avoiding conflict is not caring.

~Shin

Ai Yazawa

Shin-ah Quotes #783442
#53. keep the hearth of your thoughts pure, by so doing you will bring peace and be happy

ABD- RU-SHIN

Shin-ah Quotes #792604
#54. First, if you're so good they can't ignore you, you can negotiate a premium for your services. And second, an excellent way to boost your income is to generate multiple income streams.

Laura Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #792846
#55. He said that the plane was too fast, that his body had arrived fast. That he was just ill because his soul could not keep pace with the speed of the plane and was still on its way home, and he would feel better once his soul had caught up.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #805543
#56. Young lord, one marries only once in life and one does not do so lightly.

Shin Jae

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#57. He said that every day without a fail when he commuted on the packed buses he saw city garbage trucks leaving on their rounds several at a time. Shin-ae understands what her husband is saying. She wonders how many souls a day are loaded into those garbage trucks and then disposed of. (Cho 2006: 16)

Cho Se-Hui

Shin-ah Quotes #832747
#58. If you only do what you like, who's going to do what you don't like?

Shin Kyung-sook

Shin-ah Quotes #843350
#59. Broken down into hours, the number would be unimaginable. -i'll be right there.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #877032
#60. Architects have to know everything there is to know about a space. You have to know its past and present. That way you can build its future.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #878505
#61. Only he who bestirs himself can advance spiritually. The fool who uses extraneous aids for this, in the form of the ready-made opinions of others, only walks his path as if on crutches, while ignoring his own healthy limbs.

ABD- RU-SHIN

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#62. The process is the goal," Kaden responded innocently, trying not to feel smug. It was about time one of those Shin maxims worked in his favor.

Brian Staveley

Shin-ah Quotes #929333
#63. What kind of writer are you?" You can't think of a single sentence that would satisfy Hyong-chol. Your

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #934307
#64. It seems that whether we are aware of it or not, memory carries a dagger in its breast.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #949493
#65. You realize that you habitually thought of Mom when something in your life was not going well, because when you thought of her it was as though something got back on track, and you felt re-energized.

Shin Kyung-sook

Shin-ah Quotes #974220
#66. When someone stubbornly insists that they saw something with their own eyes, i take it as a statement mixed with wishful thinking. As what they want to believe.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #977036
#67. Myungsuh scratched his head and smiled. It was a bashful smile, but it spread from ear to ear. You couldn't help but smile, too, when you saw it.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #1022240
#68. In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

Salvador Dali

Shin-ah Quotes #1048451
#69. What did one saggy boob say to the other? We better perk up or somebody is going to think we're nuts.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #1052602
#70. After a while of watching me, he stands and punches me in the face. "If you punch me back, you will be sent home, Pixie." I kick him in the shin. He limps away, laughing like a drunk Uncle Narol. I'm not sent home.

Pierce Brown

Shin-ah Quotes #1054390
#71. To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on.
Shin'a'in saying

Mercedes Lackey

Shin-ah Quotes #1098655
#72. The candy melted smoothly and easily on my tongue. I had no idea anything in the world could taste like that. I thought i would turn to stone right there.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #1103393
#73. If there were no sea between you and me...there wouldn't be this painful goodbye

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #1108071
#74. The trust that had been building inside each of us spread throughout the classroom. Had one of the windows broken at that moment, not even the sound of breaking glass could have disturbed the gentle stillness.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #1157838
#75. History is in charge of putting things in order and society is in charge of defining them. The more order we achieve, the more truth is hidden behind that neat surface... Perhaps literature is about throwing into disarray what has been defined... About making a mess of things, all over again.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #1172110
#76. I wasn't scared (during his first at-bat). I just told them (Mo Vaughn & Kevin Mitchell') to give me all that hockey equipment (forearm pad & shin guard respectively).

Roger Clemens

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#77. Then [Badger] fetched them dressing-gowns and slippers, and himself bathed the Mole's shin with warm water and mended the cut with sticking-plaster till the whole thing was just as good as new, if not better.

Kenneth Grahame

Shin-ah Quotes #1185457
#78. How can you live without trusting people? There are more people who are good than people who are bad!

Shin Kyung-sook

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#79. You should only ask someone if they love you if you love them, regardless of what the answer might be.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #1194279
#80. Try thinking of sleep as a kind of rebirth.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #1231124
#81. In this age when words have lost their value, this age that is therefore dominated by violent words, by words swollen and yellowed with starvation, I have lost the will to speak any more of words. My despair over words is not an admittance of defeat in life.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #1237329
#82. See to it that you stand truly alive in the wonderful Creation of your God!

ABD- RU-SHIN

Shin-ah Quotes #1239425
#83. Once her tears started, she always had hard time stopping, to the extent that i wondered how she was able to hold them in the first place.

Kyung-Sook Shin

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#84. Life is sometimes amazingly fragile, but some lives are frighteningly strong.

Shin Kyung-sook

Shin-ah Quotes #1260738
#85. Now I know that anytime you see a "no trespassing" sign, it means you've got to go in and take a look.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #1275917
#86. Taking his hand and letting it go was my way of saying goodbye.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #1306419
#87. All I wanted was for you to be free from everything. And with that freedom, you often showed me another world, so I wanted you to be even freer. I wanted you to be so free that you would live your life for other people.

Shin Kyung-sook

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#88. We may be the protagonists of tragedy, but we are also the heroes of our most beautiful and thrilling experiences.

Shin Kyung-sook

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#89. Soccer Tip: Try not to land at the bottom of a pile-up, wear tough shoes and shin guards.

Jean M. Cogdell

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#90. I have found my way, step by step, proceeding from touch points that have emerged, some through conscious choice and some through dream state discovery.

Leonard Nimoy

Shin-ah Quotes #1372539
#91. One thing i am sure of is that our brief conversation in the dark showed him who i really am. I am a dumb fuck.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #1376465
#92. How far back does one's memory of someone go?

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #1385833
#93. I guess saying goodbye makes us reach out for those we would ordinarily ignore. Maybe we care about them more, too, when it is time to part.

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #1399841
#94. Taoism was an active power during the Shin dynasty, that epoch of Chinese unification from which we derive the name China.

Okakura Kakuzo

Shin-ah Quotes #1408674
#95. Tis Vanth's cage. You can just move it out of the way."
"I already have," he grumbles. "With my shin.

R.L. LaFevers

Shin-ah Quotes #1463845
#96. When he came home with the traditional gift of underwear bought with his first paycheck, she barely looked at it, and coldly shot at him, "What about what you were going to be?

Kyung-Sook Shin

Shin-ah Quotes #1473513
#97. Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.

Steven Wright

Shin-ah Quotes #1482664
#98. Prayer Against the Darkness
Shekhina
Pray for us now
bound with scripture
and shielded with shawl
Armed with passion
and loving care
Pray for us now
against suffering, turmoil, and injustice
Pray for us now
against the chaos of the dark.

Leonard Nimoy

Shin-ah Quotes #1505215
#99. If she had one more big, bright idea, she was going to figure out a way to kick herself in the shin.

Jamie Wesley

Shin-ah Quotes #1535988
#100. You're paved in my heart like an old road. Like the pebbles in a pebble field, dirt in dirt, dust in dust, cobwebs in cobwebs.

Shin Kyung-sook

Shin-ah Quotes #1566694

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