Shored Quotes

#1. It is the middle and pure height and whole of summer and a summer night, the held breath, of a planet's year; high shored sleeps the crested tide: what day of the month I do not know, which day of the week I am not sure, far less what hour of the night.

James Agee

#2. From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.

Ella Maillart

#3. These fragments I have shored against my ruins

T. S. Eliot

#4. Birth is a shipwreck, the mewling infant shored on unknown land.

Jeanette Winterson

#5. I had to pass a few more tests, and that house is shored up tighter than a straight boy's ass at a gay bar.

Keri Arthur

#6. Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin.

P.D. James

#7. I didn't have any concept of age or authority. I remember realising, Oh, the world has rules and we don't.

Moon Unit Zappa

#8. I'm a bit of a chicken when it comes to seeing potentially horrifying things on the Internet.

Katharine Isabelle

#9. I have to say that it's very few countries that are willing to look back at its past and apologize for its act, or make amends for its act, as the United States had one.

Robert Matsui

#10. John Conyers' office has been very responsive to citizen concerns and the Internet has presented a way to communicate with them in a way that's never before been there.

John Byrne

#11. Conservatives don't need to change core convictions to embrace the growing support for equal rights for gay Americans.

Ken Mehlman

#12. Golf is the crack of sports. If you hit five good shots, you know you can hit six good shots. The next time you hit six good shots, you know you can hit seven.

Alice Cooper

#13. The phrase 'sodomized by a bratwurst poltergeist' suddenly flew through my mind.

David Wong

#14. Can a woman who does not know the contents of her handbag know the contents of her heart?

Tom Robbins