Top 100 Trunk Quotes
#2. Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.
Zakes Mda
#3. A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good
a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and enriches the earth.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#4. I'll keep my head down," Mally assured him. "I'll be careful."
"If anything happens
"
"If anything happens I'll tell you immediately."
Ivan seemed pleased at that and relaxed against a tree trunk.
"Good. I don't want your mother chasing me around Lenzar with a carving knife.
M.L. LeGette
#5. There is a perfect rout of characters in every man - and every man is like an actor's trunk, full of strange creatures, new & old. But an actor and his trunk are two different things
Wallace Stevens
#6. She's an old lady from times back. Her clothes have the smell of her sheep and that rusty smell of the ancient trunk in which she keeps her things.
Denys Johnson-Davies
#7. As the trunk is one but the branches are many, yoga is one but adaptations may vary.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#8. I've got more junk in the trunk than most 5-foot-1 blonde girls, and I like it.
Kristen Bell
#9. So what did you do, drug me, stuff me in the trunk, then dump me like a sacrificial offering into that vampire's coffin? - Shella
Krista Alasti
#10. with neatly curved tusks either side of its long trunk, which was rested on the riverbank.
Permdeep Singh Dhadda
#11. VH1 Classic is the destination for people who would be interested in a music talk show.
Eddie Trunk
#12. The bland politician's smile of someone who knows that the bodies in the car trunk are, indeed, dead.
Douglas Coupland
#13. He caught hold of Tom's leg - as well as he could, it was thick as a young tree-trunk - but he was sent spinning up into the top of some bushes, when Tom kicked the sparks up in Thorin's face.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#14. If you use a philosophy education well, you can get your foot in the door of any industry you please. Industries are like the blossoms on a tree while philosophy is the trunk - it holds the tree together, but it often goes unnoticed.
Criss Jami
#15. A tree may look as beautiful as ever; but when you notice the insects infesting it, and the tips of the branches that are brown from disease, even the trunk seems to lose some of its magnificence.
Arthur Golden
#16. Char me the trunk of a redwood tree. Give me pages of white chalk cliffs to write upon. Magnify me thousands of times, and replace my trifling immodesties with a titanic megalomania - then might I write largely enough for our subjects.
Charles Fort
#17. A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.
Marguerite Young
#18. So, gently, and using the greatest of care, the elephant stretched his great trunk through the
air, and he lifted the dust speck and carried it over and placed it down, safe, on a very soft
clover
Dr. Seuss
#19. Spring is a time to find out where you are, who you are, and move toward where you are going.
Penelope Trunk
#20. Remember that people will brag about what they've achieved, but they don't brag about the price they paid to get it.
Penelope Trunk
#21. To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches.
Yann Martel
#22. My greatest fault is trying to stuff the baggage of an impossible situation into the trunk of an elegant solution
Josh Stern
#23. Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
#24. I can't keep rappelling down the cliff face of this untamed desire for her. I've got to reel it back in, stuff it into a trunk, lock it up, and then toss the motherfucker to the bottom of the ocean.
Lauren Blakely
#25. A highly successful person is very focused on what they want to be doing. The weekend and the week look very similar: They are focused on creating the life they want.
Penelope Trunk
#26. People sometimes tell me that I don't talk or act or look like a metal fan. Well, what does a metal fan look like? I've found people from all walks of life who love metal.
Eddie Trunk
#27. Ground, impaled on the trunk of a tree that has been shaved down to the point of
James Patterson
#28. The big trunk of the umbrella pine looms outside the window, living its two lives - the upper world of needles and stems, the lower world of roots and soil.
Anthony Doerr
#29. right knee knuckling inward as his backswing began, trunk twisting to its limit as his left shoulder turned under his chin. 'Every muscle
Kevin Cook
#30. We treat this world of ours as though we have a spare in the trunk.
Al Bernstein
#31. And my father went back into the forest and chopped down a tree. The sound of the trunk fracturing and splintering and falling to earth was the sound his heart would have made, could it speak.
Sarah Winman
#32. Visitors at the zoo indulge in transports of delight at the way an elephant reaches for an apple with it's trunk....but give not a moments thought to the ineffable capabilities of their own hands.
John Russell Napier
#33. If you are not annoying someone, you are not doing anything new
Penelope Trunk
#34. I live like in the days of Daniel Boone, hauling water by hand. I used to have two Rolls-Royces. Now I got one. It's got four flat tires; the trunk is open, and a rat lives inside it.
Dick Dale
#35. Their version of rock-paper-scissors was elephant - fist, mouse - palm, and ant - little finger. The elephant crushed the mouse, the mouse squashed the ant, and the ant crawled up the elephant's trunk and paralyzed his brain.
Colin Cotterill
#36. Remember, so swashing anyone into the trunk of your car!"
"Sure," Lula said, "I know that
Janet Evanovich
#37. Should I take anything?" I asked, as Shamus slammed the trunk shut.
"A healthy sense of self-preservation would be good," he said.
Devon Monk
#38. The headless trunk was discovered impaled on a metal fencepost on the edge of the town park.
C.J. Box
#39. When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.
Karen Joy Fowler
#40. Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.
Henry David Thoreau
#41. A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?
George Iles
#42. We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.
Michel De Montaigne
#43. There's a lot to be said for quitters. Those people who are extremely good at one thing got that way by quitting almost everything else.
Penelope Trunk
#44. The Ultimate Day really begins the night before, when you sit up until one o'clock trying to get things into trunk and bags. This is when you discover the well-known fact that summer air swells articles to twice or three times their original size.
Robert Benchley
#45. Now, I know some women have issues with their bodies. Maybe you've got a little extra junk in the trunk? Get over it. Doesn't matter. Naked kicks Modest's ass every single time. Men are visual. We wouldn't be fucking you if we didn't want to look at you. You can write that down if you like.
Emma Chase
#46. There's nothing sexy about skin and bone. You gotta have some junk in the trunk.
Amy Lee
#47. One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die.
Justin Cronin
#48. The money, as promised, was in the trunk of the general's official
Daniel Silva
#49. Trouble results when the speed of growth exceeds the speed of nurturing human resources. To use the analogy of growth rings in a tree, when unusually rapid growth caused the rings to grow abnormally thick, the tree trunk weakens and is easily broken.
Akio Toyoda
#50. Manners are the root, laws only the trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws in their infancy; laws are manners fully grown,
or, manners are children, which, when they grow up, become laws.
Horace Mann
#51. I'm like the trunk of a cactus, I suppose." she told him. "I take in a dose of culture and time with friends, then I retreat and go live on it for a while until I get thirsty again.
Nancy Horan
#52. They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep - they will shoot up again!
Toussaint Louverture
#53. My girlfriend is as reasonable as Lady Justice, and just as blindfolded. She's tied up in the trunk this very moment.
Jarod Kintz
#54. When you look at a tree, se it for its leafs, its branches, its trunk and the roots, then and only then will you see the tree
Takuan Soho
#55. I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree~
And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk
Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more,
But dipped its top and set me down again.
That would be good both going and coming back.
One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.
Robert Frost
#56. There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.
Blaise Pascal
#57. My clothes are fabulous - colourful, fun and by some very special designers. They deserve a better life than being sleeping beauties in a bed of tissue inside a trunk.
Suzy Menkes
#58. I wrote the music column in my high school newspaper.
Eddie Trunk
#59. There is a delicacy in it equalled only by the daintiness of the elephant's trunk.
Herman Melville
#60. Several days later he'd worked his way back to the late 1800s. The entire history of Wall Street was the story of scandals, it now seemed to him, linked together tail to trunk like circus elephants.
Michael Lewis
#61. Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
Eddie Trunk
#62. Joy could be found everywhere. A hollow on the trunk of a tree could not spoil its beauty, as the little caterpillars eating some of its leaves could not spoil it either. It was still green and offered shade to those in need.
Irina Serban
#63. The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.
Pietro Metastasio
#64. Resting on the roots of this old oak I lean back against his knotted trunk, shine my granny smith on my sleeve And ponder the days ...
Kellie Elmore
#65. The state of society is one in which the members have suffered amputation from the trunk, and strut about so many walking monsters, - a good finger, a neck, a stomach, an elbow, but never a man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#66. I'm sorry for being a little tense, Island. I suppose I'm not used to having guests in the front seat. My clients usually ride in the trunk, you know.
Camilla Monk
#67. Something doesn't look right," Vee said. "Is the tire supposed to look like that?"
I banged my head against the nearest tree trunk.
"So we've got a flat," Vee said. "What now?
Becca Fitzpatrick
#68. Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs.
Henry Villard
#69. One bit of advice: it is important to view knowledge as sort of a semantic tree - make sure you understand the fundamental principles, ie the trunk and big branches, before you get into the leaves/details or there is nothing for them to hang on to.
Elon Musk
#70. I still love radio, but TV is also an awesome platform.
Eddie Trunk
#71. Abel was arrested. So was the guy with me. Help me get Delia out of the trunk."
His expression borders on horror.
"Well, you knew you'd have to let her out eventually when you put her in there, didn't you?
Rysa Walker
#72. We made love like two people trying to make love like three people in the trunk of a car.
Dark Jar Tin Zoo
#73. From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
Aeschylus
#74. They were steaming out of the station before Maia asked, 'Was it books in the trunk?'
'It was books, admitted Miss Minton.
And Maia said, 'Good.
Eva Ibbotson
#75. Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
Eddie Trunk
#76. Let her out!" I screamed at the tree. I beat on its trunk with my muddy fists. "Let her out, or I'll bring you down! Fulmia!" I cried out in rage ...
Naomi Novik
#77. That girl seemed awful nice. If that bastard did anything to her, I've got a crowbar in my trunk that'll fit might fine up that moron's ass.
Vonnie Davis
#78. My wife was of slight stature and weighed no more than a box of old books. Folded as she was, she fitted snugly into the trunk.
Stephen Livingston
#79. Upon closer scrutiny, however, you will discover that the decomposing tree trunk and rotting leaves not only give birth to new life, but are full of life themselves. Microorganisms are at work.
Eckhart Tolle
#80. The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#81. I always had a trunk full of good reviews. I'd get magnificent reviews, and I'd be standing out on the unemployment line!
Diane Ladd
#82. There are little flags, marking the trunk rings.' He plucked one, and picked out the lettering. 'University of Krakow. Scientists did this. What's the point?
Terry Pratchett
#83. The new American Dream is about having an interesting life, not making a lot of money.
Penelope Trunk
#84. Hope and purpose in this world is living as best as you can and maybe having life that gives back. But simply giving back isn't purpose; it's a branch of purpose, but it is not the trunk or root of the tree.
Nick Vujicic
#85. Rangan came to the surface in the mid-afternoon of Inauguration Day, in the trunk of a car driven by a terrified aide of Senator Barbara Engels, Chairwoman of the Senate Select Oversight Committee on Homeland Security.
Ramez Naam
#86. If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them.
Eddie Trunk
#87. What do you mean? What present? And why my trunk?" Anton sure had a lot of questions, but at least he drove a little faster.
"I needed to transport him back to Marin's house, and your car was unlocked."
"It most certainly was not, you Battle-Fae-Bastard.
Tracey Clark
#88. I have always been very interested in landscape ... I find that all natural forms are a source of unending interest - tree trunks, the growth of branches from the trunk, each finding its own individual air-space.
Henry Moore
#89. I'm living my life waiting for the man who comes for me like one did for Anna, with hungry eyes behind the wheel and rope in the trunk. I'm ready. But I don't know how much longer I can wait.
Mindy McGinnis
#90. Mr. Advocate, the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever had. The storm-blast whistles through the branches of the Empire even now. Listen with the ears of psychohistory, and you will hear the creaking.
Isaac Asimov
#91. Thought of the way a tree will keep on growing after a fence is wired around its trunk. The unbelievable force of that expansion. And I let her go.
Barbara Kingsolver
#92. Once, I took the penny whistle
you gave me and discovered a spot
by the roaring falls where I could play
as loud as I wanted.
I lay in the bifurcated trunk
of a low-slung birch tree. The sun peeked
through applauding leaves, high overhead.
Kristen Henderson
#93. Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk.
Carol Shields
#95. Hard rock for me is AC/DC, Def Leppard, Tesla, Kiss. Metal tends to be louder, ruder, darker, like Judas Priest, Slayer, Iron Maiden.
Eddie Trunk
#96. He likens the physical being to a car, and the spiritual being to the driver. And possession is like carrying a passenger who shares the driving. And occasionally takes the car out for a spin without telling you. And maybe ties you up and stuffs you in the trunk.
Chris Dolley
#97. Beth is the kind of girl you want to stuff into a trunk, wrapped in plastic" - Shane Carver (Quote from: The Carver's Magic)
B.L. Brooklyn
#98. He saw his trunk and limbs riprippled over and sustained, buoyed lightly upward, lemonyellow : his navel, bud of flesh : and saw the dark tangled curls of his bush floating, floating hair of the stream around the limp father of thousands, a languid floating flower. [84]
James Joyce
#99. For the record, sports cars have ridiculously small trunks.
I know that for a fact, since I found myself stuffed into one.
Roberta Pearce
#100. I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
Eddie Trunk
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