Skulking Quotes

#1. All things come to those who lurk. Skulking is also an option.

Alex Gabriel

#2. You must always confront your fears," Goon said as though she hadn't spoken. "Then skulking monsters become merely unfamiliar shadows, thrown by a tree bough. Whispering voices are just the wind. The wild flare of panic is merely a burst of emotion, not a terror spell cast by some evil witch.

Charles De Lint

#3. You've read newspaper stories about elderly widows who die and leave their entire estates to their pet cats, right? Well, your cat reads those stories too, and has spent most of its skulking, devious little life dreaming about inheriting all your money.

Dave Barry

#4. The sentries might not be the most alert, but they might have marked a skulking, five-shoe tall grasshopper.

Michael Flynn

#5. Envy, slothful vice,
Never makes its way in lofty characters,
But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls
Close to the ground.

Ovid

#6. As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of sport, I find the former a higher type of humanity.

Edward Abbey

#7. But to tell the truth (to tell the truth!) I have never been particularly resolute, I mean given to resolutions, but rather inclined to plunge headlong into the shit, without knowing who was shitting against whom or on which side I had the better chance of skulking with success.

Samuel Beckett

#8. However you must have sensed a lurking 'but' skulking beneath my happy, blithe, and chipper exterior. A minuscule vexation, like the teeniest lump of raw liver sticking to the inside of my boot.

Neil Gaiman

#9. For the only safe harbour in this life's tossing, troubled sea is to refuse to be bothered about what the future will bring and to stand ready and confident, squaring the breast to take without skulking or flinching whatever fortune hurls at us.

Seneca.

#10. They tend to be suspicious, bristly, paranoid-type people with huge egos they push around like some elephantiasis victim with his distended testicles in a wheelbarrow terrified no doubt that some skulking ingrate of a clone student will sneak into his very brain and steal his genius work.

William S. Burroughs

#11. You never know what's lurking in the bloodstream, or skulking under the foreskin, or squatting in the liver, or flitting hither and thither from branch to branch in the bronchial forest.

Ian Martin

#12. See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled, Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head! Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more. Physic of Metaphysic begs defence, And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense! See Mystery to Mathematics fly!

Alexander Pope

#13. When Filch wasn't guarding the scene of the crime, he was skulking red-eyed through the corridors, lunging out at unsuspecting students and trying to put them in detention for things like "breathing loudly" and "looking happy.

J.K. Rowling

#14. Back when I was a two-handed bastard, I made the sheep of the population nervous by skulking around in my badass facial hardware and projecting the fact that I didn't give a shit.

Jordan Castillo Price

#15. The night was a rush of steaming pasta, wet irises, Italian leathers, swaddled beggars, skulking boys, sulking girls, garbage piles, pretzel vendors.

Francesca Lia Block

#16. Bad men skulking in the darkness have always been there, and always will.

Rachel Caine

#17. I've never owned an actual trail-running shoe myself, but maybe I should. My favorite paths are fraught with peril, much of it skulking at shoelace level. A rock, a root, an errant pine cone. Wham, and you're down, choking in dust and picking pebbles from wounds in your forearms and knees.

Don Kardong

#18. I am sorry. I did not see you. Normally you are lurking in the corners or skulking in the shadows, not standing in plain sight."
"I never skulk, and lurk only sometimes.

Robin LaFevers

#19. I wouldn't go for a swim without consulting you first. But, given your past history working for Hollowcrest and skulking around dark places, I wonder if you have any insight into these tunnels."
"Skulking?"
"Yes, is that not what assassins call it?"
"We call it working.

Lindsay Buroker

#20. No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#21. Brave words. Easy to write when one was young and death was still skulking over a distant hill somewhere ... - Pg. 82

Robert Harris

#22. I don't know that I'm 'hangdog'. That suggests someone skulking around, unengaged. I'm not. I'm 'engaged', believe me. I have just got a slightly sad face.

Stephen Rea

#23. What happened out there?"
"I almost got quarking toasted by a dragon."
"A dragon," he repeats, scandalized. "Are you mad? Or have you been skulking around the bars of Barbary XIII?

Nenia Campbell

#24. Individuals need to be willing to face truth about their attitudes, behaviors, even what we want out of life.

Joyce Meyer

#25. True initiation is a response to an inner calling; it requires that you face personal challenges heroically and experience a genuine rebirth into a new way of being.

Alberto Villoldo

#26. I've never liked the name Marilyn. I've often wished that I had held out that day for Jean Monroe. But I guess it's too late to do anything about it now.

Marilyn Monroe

#27. I really love and it is important to me to be physically fit.

Marcia Cross

#28. He was 'susceptible' to her. If he wasn't careful, he might end up nursing a full-blown interest.

Courtney Milan

#29. In the water bucket a melon and an eggplant nodding to each other

Yosa Buson

#30. When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words.

Billie Holiday

#31. Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.

Tony Benn

#32. I wanted to freeze
in the moment in my mind
forever
because there's nothing better
than flutters of the heart

Lisa Schroeder

#33. What's the sense in having an eclipse if you can't look at it? Somebody in production sure slipped up this time!

Charles M. Schulz

#34. Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

Laura Miller

#35. A lot was happening, plus there were an enormous number of people in the industry that were going to conventions, so it was a pretty fun time. Also there was a lot of controversy and I was at the forefront of some of that.

Todd McFarlane

#36. Tis the center to which all gravitates. One finds no rest elswhere than here. There may be other cities that please us for a while, but Rome alone completely satisfies. It becomes to all a second native land by predilection, and not by accident of birth alone.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#37. Music just affects people's feelings. It brings out emotions in you and makes you happy and sad.

Selena Gomez

#38. There is nothing, and nothing, and nothing and then - there is something.

Johnny Worthen