Snarl Quotes

#1. For the first time, I understood the difference between leaving and not staying. It was the difference between a snarl and a smile.

Cassandra Rose Clarke

#2. Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.

Harper Lee

#3. This is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. Time spent in being interrupted is not time lost ... How do we know but that the interruption we snarl at is the most blessed thing that has come to us in long days?

Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

#5. I try to tighten my heart into a knot, a snarl, I try to learn to live dead, just numb, but then I see someone I want, and it's like a nail, like a hot spike right through my chest, and I know I'm losing.

Tony Kushner

#6. My problems are like waves - just as one disappears with a snarl and a hiss there's another shaping up to knock me down.

Fiona Wood

#7. And you, fallen Wendy, eviscerated by the eternal recurrence of it all, hear Peter snarl at you for growing guilty and big and old...

Richard Powers

#8. ...The "democratic spirit"... [or the campaign to make everyone the same] leads to a nation without great men, a nation mainly of subliterates, full of the cocksureness which flattery breeds on ignorance, and quick to snarl or whimper at the first hint of criticism.

C.S. Lewis

#9. Hello, companion," said Magnus.
The monkey made a terrible sound, half snarl and half hiss.
"I begin to rather doubt the beauty of our friendship," said Magnus.

Cassandra Clare

#10. Be the alligator girl. Be whatever your dreams and your luck will let you be. Wear your green cornflakes with pride. Snarl at the crowds, and do your best to make them flinch. Give them a quarter's worth of wonder.

Dolly Parton

#11. Don't touch me," I snarl. "What was that? What happened? Where am I?" "Careful, you're turning into a philosopher.

Victoria Aveyard

#12. I had hoped, as a broadcaster, to be merely ludicrous, but this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate. So many people wanted to believe me! Say

Kurt Vonnegut

#13. Lies twist and snarl like ever-growing, thorn-covered vines, Vines that are unavoidable, they grow from anywhere, reaching up to cut you.

Frank Murray

#14. Snarl had infiltrated my subconscious. The dream was obviously a sign: he was too enticing to resist.

Rachel Cohn

#15. Why would you say I shouldn't wait for you?" It was a snarl. "If you're mine, you're mine. And I'm yours. Today, tomorrow, always.

Nalini Singh

#16. Aelin Galathynius looked at Manon Blackbeak over their crossed swords and let out a low, vicious snarl.

Sarah J. Maas

#17. Will you take some refreshment?" His lip pulled into a snarl. Unable to contain himself, he added, "One last cup of tea before you burn, you old bitch?

Laini Taylor

#18. Pandora, meet my brothers, Leonardo and Michelangelo."
"Like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?" she couldn't resist asking.
"Like the Renaissance painters," Leo snapped. He exchanged a snarl with his twin brother. "I seriously hate those damned turtles.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#19. So ever and again young Godric's dreams well up to flood old Godric's prayers, or prayers and dreams reach God in such a snarl he has to comb the tangle out, and who knows which he counts more dear.

Frederick Buechner

#20. Angel is right,"said Dr. G-H quickly. "This is my clumsy way of demonstrating."
"Demonstrating what?" I was barely able to keep a snarl out of my voice. "How to get yourself beat up in one easy step?

James Patterson

#21. Whether they soothe or snarl, cringe or strut, suicide notes do not seek to entertain. I

Martin Amis

#22. If only [there] really was a door and [you] could walk through it into another life, where threads didn't snarl and stitches didn't go all tight and tiny. Where people loved you and didn't leave you for someone else.

Karen Hancock

#23. I often find that people want to paint themselves one colour - like, 'I'm the baddie' - and they've always got this snarl on their face.

Toby Kebbell

#24. ...could a face have been fashioned to fit the attitude of his consciousness where it lay suspended between life and death that face would have worn a snarl.

William Golding

#25. If I were a lioness, I would snarl. As it is, I brood.

Tish Harrison Warren

#26. Damn, but I like making out with you Sienna. Let's do it again tomorrow. He left to the sound of a feminine snarl. It made his lips curve into a feral smile.

Nalini Singh

#27. The story thread suddenly dropped in a hopeless snarl, just as he was about to get it through the needle's eye of the first line.

Cornell Woolrich

#28. From time to time, as if heaven-sent to annoy, someone will ask me if I'm self-disciplined when it comes to my work. I usually look witheringly at them and snarl, 'What do you think?' I mean, how do you imagine anyone writes a quarter of a million words a year for publication?

Will Self

#29. She hated seeing monsters smile. Monsters should growl and snarl and be done with the pretenses.

Faith McKay

#30. If you growl, snarl, bare your teeth, or snap at me I will personally make sure that every time you are in your wolf skin you have the uncontrollable urge to hump any leg that comes your way.

Quinn Loftis

#31. Pink is what I do. Alecia is who I am. The world has taken Pink and turned it into this thing, a brand - a snarl.

Pink

#32. A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.

Jonathan Swift

#33. The cynics were watchdogs terrifying malefactors. They tried to expose falseness and conceit. That's why their name is still spoken with a snarl.

Petr Skrabanek

#34. God you're obstinate." It was a snarl. "Must make me a masochist that I like that about you." Her wolf bared its canines, charmed but trying not to allow it to matter. "I only get worse the more you know me. Consider it a lucky escape.

Nalini Singh

#35. The world would not be in such a snarl, had Marx been Groucho instead of Karl.

Irving Berlin

#36. Who's going to fuck with a six-foot-six ripped dude in black leather pants, tats covering both arms and a perma-snarl?

Avery Flynn

#37. I hear laughter and someone asks if I need help, not in a nice way. I snarl, 'What I need is for your mother to have thought a little harder nine months before your birthday.

Maggie Stiefvater

#38. () Teeth clenched, she heard herself snarl out words in a voice feral in its savagery (...)

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#39. Snarl must love Christmas as much as me, I decided.

Rachel Cohn

#40. Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

George Meredith

#41. That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.

William Feather

#42. The snarl didn't make Adam's too-handsome features less handsome, but it would probably have scared anyone else. Me? I think I have some kind of subliminal death wish because Adam's anger makes me go weak at the knees, and not in a terrified sort of way.

Patricia Briggs

#43. Some dogs bite. So you keep them away from people. You can't just get rid of them, for being the way they are. And now and then you can be glad to have them around, to snarl the way a good dog never does.

Marilynne Robinson

#44. Kim was more than a little inclined to snarl at him, but in the past few days she had learned that snarling at Mairelon did little good. He simply smiled and corrected her grammar.

Patricia C. Wrede

#45. The more congenial page of some tenth-rate poeticule worn out with failure after failure and now squat in his hole like the tailless fox, he is curled up to snarl and whimper beneath the inaccessible vine of song.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

#46. When the little dog snarls, the big dog does not connect the snarl with himself, simply fancying that the little dog must be uncomfortable.

Anthony Trollope

#47. She didn't care for the way he stared at her, either. Even when he wasn't looking at her it felt as if he were staring. And as if he'd read her thoughts, he shifted his eyes to hers again. His smile was slow, unmistakably insolent, and made her want to bare her teeth in a snarl.

Nora Roberts

#48. The moment he touched me, my universe constricted to the space between our lips. We were a snarl of limbs and bright-burning kisses.

Roshani Chokshi

#49. I love eating chicken with my bare hands. It makes me want to snarl at people, even more than usual.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#50. (Snarl sent me candy! Oh, how I might love him!)

Rachel Cohn

#51. After a lifetime of nature shows and magazine photos, we arrive at the woods conditioned to expect splendor - surprised when the parking lot does not contain a snarl of animals attractively mating and killing each other.

Bill McKibben

#52. The memo's chief function ... is as a track-coverer, so that you can turn on someone six months later and snarl: 'Well, you should have known about it, I sent you a memo.

Jilly Cooper

#53. I felt especially grateful now having the red Moleskine to confide in. Just knowing a Snarl was on the other side to read it - to possibly care - inspired my pen to move quickly in answer to his question.

Rachel Cohn

#54. I realized that Snarl had given me what I asked for as a Christmas present. Hope and belief. I'd always hoped but never believed that I could have such an adventure on my own. That I could own it. And love it. But it had happened. The notebook had made it so.

Rachel Cohn

#55. I want to stay with you," Owen said, his words almost a snarl. "I want to fight with you and be by your side to the end - no matter what that is.

Jennifer Estep

#56. If God made me a princess, why didn't he take a little more time and make my hair so it wouldn't snarl?

Robert N. Lee

#57. We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#58. I hated morning people, always had. I'd never been able to climb out of bed and welcome the day. I was more of a glare at the world, and snarl until I'd had enough coffee to appear human.

Amelia Hutchins

#59. Nothing," she said, "upsets me more than being hungry; I snarl and snap and burst into tears.

Shirley Jackson

#60. Now remember courage, go to the door,Open it and see whether coiled on the bedOr cringing by the wall, a savage beastMaybe with golden hair, with deep eyesLike a bearded spider on a sunlit floorWill snarl-and man can never be alone.

Allen Tate

#61. War was the ultimate chaos, a pounding, soul-destroying snarl, ending in blown-apart men lying unburied on the cold earth. There was nothing more cosmically chaotic than war.

Paullina Simons

#62. When it is our turn to check in, the woman behind the counter smiles brightly at us despite the cruel hour. I attempt to return her enthusiasm, but my lips don't have the energy for it. The effect is something like a snarl.

Julie Buxbaum

#63. But in the South, our smiles are our weapons and only a native knows a snarl from sincerity.

Alessandra Torre

#64. The business of a novelist is, in my opinion, to create characters first and foremost, and then to set them in the snarl of the human currents of his time, so that there results an accurate permanent record of a phase of history.

John Dos Passos

#65. But even in the full flower of her fury, Carceret was perfectly in control. She didn't lash out wildly or snarl at me. She kept her words inside her, burning them like fuel.

Patrick Rothfuss

#66. People here snarl and frown a lot, he wrote; he had seen neither a smile nor the sun in months. What is life without beauty, love, and justice?

Aleksandar Hemon

#67. I am a firm believer that you need a well-defined leadership role to deal with unexpected and non-linear side effects of people working together. You need someone to keep the threads untangled and forming a high-functioning web rather than a big snarl of a Gordian knot.

Rands

#68. It all sounds rather naive and sentimental to be talking about children laughing and dancing and singing together when we all know perfectly well that what children do in real life is snarl and take drugs.

Douglas Adams

#69. I launched forward. The Shift was effortless. A snarl ripped from my throat, and the ground rushed past me. My paws were nearly skinned with the pace. My people joined me. Death was on the wind, in our voice, in our soul.

Meg Caddy

#70. With vivid words your just conceptions grace,
Much truth compressing in a narrow space;
Then many shall peruse, but few complain,
And envy frown, and critics snarl in vain.

John Wolcot