Tar Like Quotes

#1. My parents had torn through my innocence and left me with a tar-like substance that was corrupting what was left of me. I could feel it at night; slithering and curling around my soul as it slowly devoured me. It was draining my energy and replacing it with an evil I was afraid to confront.

J.D. Stroube

#2. New York, I thought, was a city defined by its flaws. In every possible way, its virtues were overwhelmed by its vices, as Jekyll was by Hyde. Yet it was these very vices that gave the city its character - like tar in an oak barrel lending its flavor to Scotch.

Miles Watson

#3. Like Guitar in Son of Solomon, and Son in Tar Baby, he believed that harmony could never exist between the races.

Toni Morrison

#4. She was pretty sure Sample #17 had been some Lancre Blue Vein, which had reacted vigorously with the acid, blown a small hole in the ceiling and covered half the work-bench with a dark green substance that was setting like tar.

Terry Pratchett

#5. The powdered sugar had caramelized and blackened into a sucking tar pit in which my ladyfingers languished like so many sunk mastadons.

Julie Powell

#6. Even when your eyes are closed, it feels black. As black as black ever gets, like if you touch it, your hand might get stuck in it, like tar or black quicksand or when you stretch out your hand at night, to turn on a light, but all you feel is darkness.

Kelly Link

#7. If I have been guilty of no violation of law, why am I hunted up and down continually like a partridge upon the mountains? Why am I threatened with the tar barrel? Why am I waylaid every day, and from night to night, and my life in jeopardy every hour?

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

#8. We passed through a supermarket, a clothing boutique with the latest in Viking fashions, and an IKEA outlet (naturally).

Rick Riordan

#9. It generated horrific noises that sound like a TRex trapped in a tar pit screeching its dying screams.

Thomas L. Friedman

#10. In fact, if we cut 50 percent of the liver out, it'll be back in two weeks.

Sangeeta N. Bhatia

#11. I gave life, and that is beautiful.

Celine Dion

#12. If I really like the smell of something - a piece of tar or my goddaughter's plastic doll - I put a tiny piece in a bottle with a label. I keep them in a fridge in my bathroom.

Mika.

#13. I will never betray my Goon Dock friends, We will stick together until the whole world ends, Through heaven and hell and nuclear war, Good pals like us will stick like tar, In the city, or the country, or the forest, or the boonies I am proudly declared a fellow Goony. - The Goony Oath

James Kahn

#14. Had we taken all of Iraq, we would have been like a dinosaur in the tar pit - we would still be there, and we, not the United Nations, would be bearing the costs of that occupation.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#15. Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.

Leo Durocher

#16. Doing comedy for film is always a challenge because you are in the hands of the editor after the fact. I am hoping I can do some more soon, I enjoy doing comedy.

Tim Roth

#17. I hate the way bitterness is like a black, bubbling tar pit in me, and I hate the way so many memories of you are in that pit.

Lorna Landvik

#18. My brain feels like it's running on a treadmill in a pool of tar.

Amie Kaufman

#19. Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.

Barry Hannah

#20. The establishment defends itself by complicating everything to the point of incomprehensibility.

Fred Hoyle

#21. Remembering the sound of metal clanging against wet tar sent chills up my spine. Car crashes always seemed like they couldn't happen to normal people, like me and Kona. But now I know that death can happen to anyone.

Jessica Mitchell

#22. In your sky, you are the brightest star.
Without you light, it's dark like tar.
So love yourself to enlighten others.

Debasish Mridha