Shoring Quotes

#1. She went to all the parties and kissed all the boys, shoring up fun against despair, against the suffocating terror that loomed over her.

Holly Black

#2. I do love the sound of ripping corn husks. The violence of the noise, the sustained popping and shoring of the silky organic threads, made me think of someone tearing up an expensive and potentially Italian set of trousers in a fit of madness that this person just might regret later.

Reif Larsen

#3. Friendship doesn't have anything to do with shoring up weakness. It has to do with respect and consideration for those you care about. It has to do with wanting to give something back to those you admire.

Terry Brooks

#4. Although biodiversity loss continues globally, many countries are significantly slowing the rate of loss by shoring up protected natural areas and the services they provide, and in expanding national park systems with tighter management and more secure funding.

Helen Clark

#5. The Philippines ranks among top off-shoring hubs in the world because of cost competitiveness and, more importantly, our highly trainable, English proficient, IT-enabled management and manpower.

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

#6. I feel the place is falling apart on me, but Mrs. Scarlatti says not to worry. It always looks like that, she says. Life is a continual shoring up, she says, against one thing and another just eroding and crumbling away. I'm beginning to think she's right.

Anne Tyler

#7. The rise of unretirement is good news for the economy's vitality, the material well-being of individuals in life's third stage, and for shoring up the financial health of the social safety net.

Chris Farrell

#8. That gloomy outside, like a rusty chest, contains the shoring treasure of a soul resolved and brave.

John Dryden

#9. I am heavy in his arms, and I feel safe there, but I am lost, and I need constantly to be shoring up the wall that holds my emotions at bay, or I will feel something too great to contain.

John Darnielle

#10. Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more right to exist than a table that needs a wad of paper under one leg in order to stand steady.

Virginia Woolf

#11. I do use my music to entertain myself, as indeed I use other people's music.

John Lydon

#12. I had a dream that there were these huge indoor swimming pools called 'lobbies' that poor people used to do mass amounts of laundry

Megan Boyle

#13. Next door to the Bensons is Emmet Frag, a retired pacemaker who is credited with inventing the notion of happiness. He's currently working on a method for categorising ducks based on their singing voice. He's also the owner of the world's largest collection of tenor geese.

St John Morris

#14. In the lobby of the visitor center, the glass doors had been shattered, and a cold gray mist blew through the cavernous main hall. A sign that read WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH dangled from one hinge, creaking in the wind.

Michael Crichton

#15. Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds.

Carolus Linnaeus

#16. Although it's not something I'm particularly proud of, I'm willing to admit that, in addition to whiling away the long stretches of time in the air and waiting in airport lounges reading the 'New Yorker' and 'New York Times' on my Kindle, I've picked up the occasional tabloid magazine.

Derek Blasberg

#17. For most of human history, we appear to have lived in tribes of seventy-five to 150 people. Those who could not handle the complexity of the relationships would go off on their own. Lions need to eat, after all. Today

Randy J. Paterson

#18. Whose little boy are you?

James Baldwin

#19. A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked, don't want to go without guarantee. But that's what's got to happen. You go naked until you die

Nikki Giovanni

#20. When my shoes are killing me, I take a maxi pad and put it in the bottom of my shoe. It is better than any Dr. Scholl's insert. That fashion tip has saved me through some long nights.

Hoda Kotb

#21. I absolutely love being on stage. I live and breathe the stage, and nothing makes me happier, but to perform.

Judith Hill

#22. Your plane would fly pretty well, except it would be on fire the whole time, and then it would stop flying, and then stop being a plane.

Randall Munroe

#23. I wasn't unhappy, but I was a little like: 'Is this it? Really?' I was thirsty.

Adam Lambert

#24. Arthur was not one of those interesting characters whose subtle motives can be dissected. He was only a simple and affectionate man, because Merlyn had believed that love and simplicity were worth having.

T.H. White