Truculently Quotes

#1. Why are you so stuck up?' she asked, truculently.
'I'm just made that way.'
'You ought to fight it.'
'I can't see why.

Anthony Powell

#2. The other day I chanced to meet
An angry man upon the street -
A man of wrath, a man of war,
A man who truculently bore
Over his shoulder, like a lance,
A banner labeled "Tolerance.

Phyllis McGinley

#3. People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based ... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?

Anne McCaffrey

#4. Neither one of you will just come out and say it, that's the problem. You're both so scared of what might happen that you're fighting it tooth and nail. I know for a fact that if you looked Travis in the eye and told him you wanted him, he would never look at another woman again.

Jamie McGuire

#5. Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them.

Christopher Lee

#6. The very fact that she never made an impudent answer seemed to Miss Minchin a kind of impudence in itself.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

#7. Where she was headed, the cast iron skillet had been seasoned before she was born. Her

Kelly J. Ford

#8. Saying that I am talking out of both sides of my mouth just proves my very point. Politicians would bypass real social issues by referring to my grandfather, who founded the Muslim Brotherhood, or to my brother, currently chairman of the Islamic Centre in Geneva.

Tariq Ramadan

#9. I like John Kerry. I think he's intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he's deeply committed on issues like the environment. I think he's an internationalist, which I am.

Howard Dean

#10. I don't want to leave her side, but having her wake up like this would be bad for our budding relationship.

K. Webster

#11. The concierge was a snapper who was over the hill and down a disused mine-shaft. Her hair was every bit as natural as a parade goose-stepping down the Wilhelmstrasse, and she'd evidently been wearing a boxing-glove when she's applied the crimson lipstick to her paperclip of a mouth.

Philip Kerr