Skewer Quotes

#1. It is a naked city. Faith is not pampered, nor hope encouraged; there is no place to lay one's exhaustion: but instead pinnacles skewer it undisguised against vacancy.

William Gaddis

#2. The past became a long, razor-sharp skewer that stabbed right through his heart.

Haruki Murakami

#3. The last thing I need added to my list of credentials is 'stabbed by a mattress,' in addition to a cocktail skewer

Amie Kaufman

#4. The smell of food made him realize how ravenous he was. There was hot bread and honey, a bowl of pease porridge, a skewer of roast onions and well-charred meat. He sat by the tray, pulled apart the bread with his hands, and stuffed some into his mouth.

George R R Martin

#5. All right, boy, skewer me. I've dropped my defenses,
I'm an easy victim. Why, by now
Your arrows practically know their own way to the target
And feel less at home in their quiver than in me.

Ovid

#6. Skewer is just too vague. I think if you say, 'Stand back or I'll stab him in the stomach,' then I have an idea about how serious you are. After all, Leif's stomach is his favorite body part so that's a decent threat.

Maria V. Snyder

#7. Killing men is not like fencing. There's no room for fine touches in battle. Every second that you blade is stuck in one man's body is a second that another can use to skewer you.

Tim Stead

#8. I burn my neck with a fondue skewer while you watch The Cosby Show on my bed.

Merritt Tierce

#9. It required a great deal of Cam's willpower - and he had a considerable supply - not to skewer Christopher Frost with a dining utensil. He wanted her attention. All of it.

Lisa Kleypas

#10. St. Vincent was far too clever to rely on physical violence when a few well-chosen words would skewer someone with a minimum of fuss.

Lisa Kleypas

#11. Where I come from, we're more about efficiency,' he replies. 'A knife like this'll skewer food, smear butter, and slit throats all at the same time.

Marie Lu

#12. I wanted to skewer her with a stare, flay her with a frown, impale her with a - I say, what are you doing?
Charles would have answered her, but he was laughing so hard he was doubled over.

Julia Quinn

#13. Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.

Ellen Hopkins

#14. Deep and intense, his eyes shone with an inner fire that burned so clearly, Ella was tempted to reach for a skewer and a marshmallow.

Anonymous

#15. Bleed him and I'll skewer you like a stuck pig," I said through clenched teeth.
"No, you will try. You'll wave your sword around and talk a lot of shit and then back off at the last minute. And then I'll snap your neck and his.

Ilona Andrews

#16. I could see her will leaving and death seeping through her skin to skewer her soul.

J.D. Stroube

#17. Glad you're back to normal. The makeup and the dress were a lot more intimidating than the dagger."
"Get going, Sparky, before I skewer you."
"Sparky?

Rick Riordan

#18. My view is that if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it. An agnostic is somebody who doesn't believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I'm agnostic.

Carl Sagan

#19. But when people are past a certain age, you sort of stop asking them why they do things. It feels dangerous.

Robin Sloan

#20. Shame loves prerequisites. Our if/when worthiness list easily doubles as the gremlins' to-do list.

Brene Brown

#21. But still, he reflected, I ought to wash my pajamas more often. Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.
Tengo, IQ84

Haruki Murakami

#22. Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Ronald Reagan

#23. Human life is the result of a glorious evolutionary accident.

Stephen Jay Gould

#24. Consensus is usually made possible by vague language and shallow commitments.

Mason Cooley

#25. You know I am not a champion of marriage. The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless.

Oscar Wilde

#26. I know I had that punch comin' to me. I owed you one. No hard feelings, sugar."
"Speak for yourself." Pia's words were coated in frost. "I've all kinds of hard feelings going on over here.

Thea Harrison

#27. Awareness cannot be taught, and when it is present it has no context. All contexts are created by thought and are therefore corruptible by thought. Awareness simply throws light on what is, without any separation whatsoever.

Toni Packer