Shrinks Away Quotes

#1. The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Pearl S. Buck

#2. When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch it does not mean he is rejecting you. Rather he is protecting you from the foul, destructive evil which he believes is the essence of his being and which he believes can injure you.

Dorothy Rowe

#3. Days rotted away, disintegrating as each hour ticked by.

Elise Icten

#4. Every language having a structure, by the very nature of language, reflects in its own structure that of the world as assumed by those who evolved the language. In other words, we read unconsciously into the world the structure of the language we use.

Alfred Korzybski

#5. Why didn't you tell us you were the Alexander Black who can stand atop a cantering horse and shoot a hole through a plum at a hundred paces?"
With a snort, Alec jerked his gaze away. "More like a cantaloupe. The thing shrinks with every retelling. Soon they'll have me shooting at a mustard seed.

Sabrina Jeffries

#6. It is better to have an enemy than to have a fool for a friend.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. Women in bed are like Diesel engines. What I mean by that is, it may take them a while to get going, but when you do, they can go for a long, long time. Whereas men are like ... bottle rockets.

Jeff Foxworthy

#8. Short laugh. Time will tell with you and Bobby Pearlman,

Mary Alice Monroe

#9. You have to remind casting directors out here that you don't just do one thing. There's a lot of people who do just one thing.

Stephen Root

#10. When we launched Hulu, everybody was saying, 'Oh, this is going to be a substitute for pay TV in the living room.'

Jason Kilar

#11. Almost time to go home - and he had come to rely on the desolate wastes of time that lay between these pleasures as an invalid comes to rely on the certainty of recurring pain. It was a part of him.

Richard Yates

#12. Every time I see a piano, I have this urge to play it.

Margot Robbie

#13. If I'm away from painting for a week, I get bored.

Jean-Michel Basquiat