Tight Lipped Quotes

#1. The waiter smiled a polite little waiter's smile. He had almost exhausted his polite little waiter repertoire and would soon be slipping into his role of a rather tight-lipped and sarcastic little waiter.

Douglas Adams

#2. Trust me," Cameron cut in, "there ain't a thing wrong with those two unless you count the unusual and exquisite length of their legs.
Brooklyn turned a tight-lipped smile on him. "Thanks so much for that penis-driven observation.

Darynda Jones

#3. Even as a young man, Sawtooth had a hard time talking to women. Since moving to Out-to-Sea, he's become tight-lipped as an oyster. But he can feel the worlds pearling on his tongue: Girl, you are my moon. You are the tidal pull that keeps time marching forward.

Karen Russell

#4. I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read a novel, we don't notice the fact that someone who might be very close-mouthed or tight-lipped is perfectly willing to tell us a story in 600 or 700 pages.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

#5. He gave her a slight, tight-lipped smile. The smile he typically gave people before he ate them alive.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#6. thank fuck, we found her! I thought for sure she was hiding in the men's bathroom again!" As she let them lead her away, Sanders frothing in her wake, she said, "Fuck? It seems you've been tight-lipped about a very important swear word. Explain.

K.F. Breene

#7. I trust you all slept well," I said, deliberately keeping my tone light. I returned Malich's glare with a tight-lipped grin.
"Yes, we did," Kaden answered quickly.
"I'm sorry to hear that.

Mary E. Pearson

#8. Do not follow after the past; do not go forward to meet the future. Instead, just rest the mind naturally in the present awareness.

Gampopa

#9. There is no civilization that did not begin with art, Whether it was drawing a line in the sand, painting a cave or dancing.

Toni Morrison

#10. In writing one draws in the rest, the forgotten parts.

Edmund White

#11. It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#12. Mobs have passions, not brains.

Dan Simmons

#13. I've lived in other cities - Rome, Dublin, Mexico City - but I was born in New York City, and I always lived in those other places as a New Yorker.

Pete Hamill

#14. Solitude gives me a chance to read and think, and now that the memories are coming through again - to rediscover my past, to find out who and what I really am. If anything should go wrong, I'll have at least that.

Daniel Keyes

#15. Maybe that's what our friendship was. It was the feeling that we didn't have to speak or explain. We could sit in the darkness and watch the tadpoles just as easily as we could lie out in the heat and breathe in the smell of peaches and gravel, all without saying a word.

Rachel Coker

#16. We all choke. You're not human if you haven t.

Curtis Strange

#17. Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.

Lao-Tzu

#18. did not have enough substance to trigger the opening of a supermarket door

Jerry Spinelli

#19. If you don't do it my way, I suggest you commit suicide.

Josef Albers