Steamer Trunk Quotes

#1. I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

David Benioff

#2. Pulling a Houdini
Relationships are magic;
we're always getting each other out of handcuffs and strait-jackets
while locked in a steamer trunk underwater.

Beryl Dov

#3. His gaze glossed over a stack of wooden crates and landed on a steamer trunk that was covered with stickers from all over the world.

Megan Frazer Blakemore

#4. like the small votives they lit in church.) Sometimes the houses were deserted, even partially destroyed. Sometimes it seemed the families must still be upstairs. There were old bicycles in some, or baby carriages. A steamer trunk, once, filled with broken dishes. A jar of pickled cauliflower.

Alice McDermott

#5. It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.

Alexandra Robbins

#6. But the safety of the world, in some sense, depends on your saying no to inhumane ideas. Standing up for one's own integrity makes you no friends. It is costly. Yet defiance of the mob, in the service of that which is right, is one of the highest expressions of courage I know.

Gabrielle Giffords

#7. The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.

Thomas Jefferson

#8. When I was growing up, my favorite movie was 'Somewhere in Time' with Christopher Reeve, which is a hugely romantic, sappy movie. I couldn't understand it when the guy didn't get the girl or the girl didn't get the guy in love stories. I was definitely a sap.

Scott Michael Foster

#9. My grandmother, whom we call Biel, thinks it's very unbecoming of me not to smile for the paparazzi. So every time I see them, I think, 'Smile for Biel!'

Jessica Biel

#10. Eyes aren't good liars.

Shannon Wiersbitzky

#11. I'm not searching for that magical Daddy, but I would like to find a partner in life, because I feel like finally I know what love is and what love isn't.

Alana Stewart

#12. The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.

Rutherford B. Hayes

#13. Not to be able to stop thinking is an affliction, but we don't realise this because almost everybody is suffering from it.

Eckhart Tolle

#14. Life is improvisation. All of those [improv] classes were like church to me. The training had seeped into me and changed who I am.

Tina Fey

#15. Still, our creationist incubi, who would never let facts spoil a favorite argument, refuse to yield, and continue to assert the absence of all transitional forms by ignoring those that have been found, and continuing to taunt us with admittedly frequent examples of absence.

Stephen Jay Gould

#16. When you have nothing left to burn, you must set yourself on fire.

Jack Kevorkian

#17. This is how we court girls in America. We grab them and kiss them. And if they don't like it, we do it again, harder and longer, until they surrender. It saves us hours of witty repartee.

Lisa Kleypas