Troughs Quotes

#1. Deep ridges crossed his forehead like terraces in a Thai hillside, tucks in a leather cushion, troughs across a bloodhound's jowls.

Dennis Vickers

#2. I've come to understand that migraine is a part of the personality. I have migraine troughs. These often follow high productivity. I have a hypo-manic phase, then I'll crash.

Siri Hustvedt

#3. Many, many rules had begun to bend at the hand of nanotechnology, gene therapy, robotics, artificial intelligence. This produced a lot of good, and a lot of bad. This trade-off has always plagued us. When you make waves, you produce peaks and troughs.

Matt Spire

#4. Life is made of peaks & troughs. If you don't like going up and down then you must live your life standing in one spot.

Alex Zar

#5. Now it may surprise you to learn that in His efforts to get permanent possession of a soul, He relies on the troughs even more than on the peaks; some of His special favourites have gone through longer and deeper throughs than anyone else.

C.S. Lewis

#6. Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

Michael Lee-Chin

#7. Lennie Smullenski and Anthony Zuck bake the goodies in the back room in big steel ovens and troughs of hot oil. Clouds of flour and sugar sift onto table surfaces and slip under foot. And lard is transferred daily from commercial sized vats directly to local butts.

Janet Evanovich

#8. Blouse walking on to a stage dimly lit in blue. As an audience looks on somberly, the woman, Chai Jing, displays a graph of brown-red peaks with occasional troughs. This was the PM

Anonymous

#9. There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.

Ben Kingsley

#10. Though we often see life troughs as the universe's conspiracy to ruin us, they're actually our own true nature inviting us to lay down our weary heads.

Martha Beck

#11. I love that, even after jumping through hoops forever, I can still get that buzz, that hook. That's very healthy, but it's bittersweet, too, because if you don't get the part, you have to deal with the disappointment. I don't think I'll ever negotiate those peaks and troughs wholly healthily.

Gina McKee

#12. I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.

Graham Joyce

#13. If you ride the bucking peaks and troughs of celebrity long enough you become a national treasure. If you have the sense to die in mysterious circumstances you become a legend

Kate Lord Brown

#14. Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.

Karl Shapiro

#15. Love so strong, without ebb and flow or crests and troughs, indeed lacking any sort of motion so that it had become invisible to him these seven years, part of the order of things outside his head which he had taken for granted.

Abraham Verghese

#16. The starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is 'knowing thyself'as a product of the historical processes to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory.

Antonio Gramsci

#17. The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.

Virginia Woolf

#18. Every organization needs at least one person who knows what's going on, and why it's happening, and who's doing it.

Terry Pratchett

#19. Christ cannot light a single spark in the heart of an individual, without that little tiny spark being for God. He gives the light, and has ordained that every ray of it is to reflect something for God.

George Wigram

#20. There's still a strange moment with every book when I move from the position of writer to the position of reader and I suddenly see my words with the eyes of the cold public. It gives me a terrible sense of exposure, as if I'd gotten sunburned.

Eudora Welty

#21. It's no surprise to him what any government does, least of all his own.

Glen Duncan

#22. Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the chosen people, of the children of the light.

Matthew Arnold

#23. I am pleased beyond words you aren't lying dead in a ditch somewhere.

Lyndsay Faye

#24. The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued reams of playground regulations and actually gone so far as to recommend against "tripping hazards, like tree stumps and rocks." Maybe we should just bulldoze the local parks and put in a couple of blobs ... made of plastic.

Lenore Skenazy