Skewering Quotes

#1. She's frightened of me. Mother would be so proud. He turned away, skewering a fish on one of his claws. I guess I did threaten to slice off her face.

Tui T. Sutherland

#2. Release Lady Mirabelle and the kitten or I'll run you through, skewering your belly, pinching out your life.

Sue-Ellen Welfonder

#3. I'm not very pious about anything, fortunately, but I'm skewering myself first. I'm skewering things that I care about and things that are important to me and then just my own foibles.

Paul Beatty

#4. The image of the reporter as a nicotine-stained Quixote, slugging back Scotch while skewering city hall with an expose ripped out of a typewriter on the crack of deadline, persists despite munificent evidence to the contrary.

Paul Gray

#5. talking about their belief in Bitcoin's eventual success (and perhaps with a bit of angst over their skewering in The Social Network): "First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then you win.

Kashmir Hill

#6. I love the satire and skewering of comedy writing.

Kristin Gore

#7. God doesn't mock us. He never gives us a goal that we cannot accomplish in His strength. I want to assure you, you can glorify God, you MUST glorify God. But you have to determine deep within your heart that you're going to do it His way.

Charles R. Swindoll

#8. The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#9. He had a heart that could have held the entire empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar.

Gaston Leroux

#10. There is always something rough and tumble about planting - because with our clumsy implements we must reach from our atmospheric element down into another, down into the darkness of the soil.

Stanley Crawford

#11. Novels help us to resist the temptation to think of the past as deficient.

Ian McEwan