Slabs Quotes

#1. A quarter-moon smeared a feverish glow on the marble slabs and dappled the trodden weeds that beleaguered them with a pale dewy leprosy; only the massy shadows which clustered around the trunks of the ancient oaks and beeches escaped its infection.

William Scott Home

#2. Despite evidence to the contrary, I hated drinking to the point that I misplaced really big slabs of time.

Augusten Burroughs

#3. I sold my first short story to Pyramid Press, where it was chiseled onto fifteen slabs of granite, and for which I was paid nine goats.

Frank Tuttle

#4. As the trees turned red, then white, then naked as pitchforks, Margot and Xiao Chen immersed themselves in several forests' worth of pages, and I watched, tortured, as brick after brick of a new development was laid on the wasteland of Midtown West like slabs of gold bullion.

Carolyn Jess-Cooke

#5. Life is like a pavement. Some slabs are perfect, others broken or cracked but at the end iit's always a complete and perfect slab.

Drake

#6. Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It is the music, essays, entertainment and provocations that they access, spawned by the humanities, that animate them - and us.

Nicholas Kristof

#7. A rising tower of wood and needles and branches and great slabs of bark that has grown for hundreds of years. An impossible castle made from air and sunlight, fixed in place by the power of photosynthesis and chlorophyll. Magic. With lights.

Ned Hayes

#8. I went outside, tripping over slabs of sunshine the size of towns. The sun was like a crowd of people, it was a party, it was music. The sun was blaring through the walls of houses and beating down the steps. The sun was drumming time into the stone. The sun was rhythming the day.

Jeanette Winterson

#9. No dish changes quite so much from season to season as soup. Summer's soups come chilled, in pastel colors strewn with herbs. If hot they are sheer insubstantial broths afloat with seafood. In winter they turn steaming and thick to serve with slabs of rustic, crusty bread.

Florence Fabricant

#10. I passed under an arch out of that region of slabs and columns, and wandered through the open country; sometimes following the visible road, but sometimes leaving it curiously to tread across meadows where only occasional ruins bespoke the ancient presence of a forgotten road.

H.P. Lovecraft

#11. There are two Venices I know about and one of them is a hotel in Vegas. The other is an L.A. beach where pretty girls walk their dogs while wearing as little as possible and mutant slabs of tanned, posthuman beef sip iced steroid lattes and pump iron until their pecs are the size of Volkswagens.

Richard Kadrey

#12. When I grew up in central London, we had six pavement slabs for a garden.

Keeley Hawes

#13. Blowing,Blowing
The gray slabs
Will lose you
the winds will flick you away
In a whiff

Carl Sandburg

#14. Hetty was eating, rather than reading, large slabs of a very thin book of contemporary verse each page having a thick wodge of print, without capital letters, starting at the top and running nearly to the bottom. Her eyes were very close to the book and she frowned with concentration.

Stella Gibbons

#15. Having no destination,
I am never lost.

Ikkyu

#16. O heavenly Father,
protect and bless all things
that have breath: guard them
from all evil and let them sleep in peace.

Albert Schweitzer

#17. What did you expect?" he murmured. "Time passes.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#18. Some will call this self-indulgence
(They are lucky not to know its truth)
Some will know the simple fact of pain
This is becoming my normality

Sarah Kane

#19. He who has found a good wife has found great happiness, but a quarrelsome woman is like a roof that lets in the rain.

Andre Maurois

#20. The ties we form through the Internet are not, in the end, the ties that bind. But they are the ties that preoccupy.

Sherry Turkle

#21. Feet, she thought. Sea legs. When you pass the last spit of land and commit to the ocean, you are taking a step into the infinite and might set your foot down anywhere.

Morgan Llywelyn

#22. If you can put this book down, it means you need more coffee and less sleep. After all, sleep is for the weak which is why I get 8 hours every night and 2 hours during the day and drink de-cafe.

Leviak B. Kelly

#23. I have ridden a dragon!" Tiago protested. "I have eaten a dragon," Gromph replied. I have slept with a dragon - two! Jarlaxle thought, but did not say, though he couldn't avoid a grin at the pleasant memory of the wonderful copper dragon sisters, Tazmikella and Ilnezhara.

R.A. Salvatore

#24. The German people were not denied, however, the possibility of improving their lot by hard work over the years. Industrial growth and progress were not denied them.

James F. Byrnes

#25. Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road.

Ogden Nash

#26. To make a face from marble means to remove from the slab everything that is not the face

Anton Chekhov

#27. I have my belief structure, and it's very important to me, but people start associating that with you, and you become that. I want to be judged for my work.

Kevin Rahm

#28. What if I fall?', Tim cried.
Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.

Stephen King

#29. Can you sign something?" Nicole demanded. "This paper? This napkin? My chest? My inner thighs or my wildest dreams? Whatever you want.

T.J. Klune