Unfasten Quotes

#1. We shall have to stay the night here,' he said, as if preparing to spend the night at an inn, and he proceeded to unfasten the collar-straps. The buckles came undone.
'But shan't we be frozen?' remarked Vasili Andreevich.
'Well, if we are we can't help it.' said Nikita.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. Tanaquil gently toed the peeve. "I'll unfasten the window. Jump out to the lower roof and run."
"Stay and bite," said the peeve.

Tanith Lee

#3. To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.

Machado De Assis

#4. She reached behind her to unfasten her bra, then stopped. "Do you need me to take all my clothes off, or just from the waist down?" "This isn't a visit to the gynecologist, Rachel. Everything must go." His voice was lightly mocking.

Anne Stuart

#5. Could you imagine the way I felt, I couldn't unfasten her safety belt. All the way home I held a grudge, for the safety belt that wouldn't budge.

Chuck Berry

#6. His exposure to storytelling, through Charles Dickens and Charlotte Bronte, had ill prepared him for characters who came from and traveled nowhere -- or for stories that made no sense.

John Irving

#7. The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older.

George Bernard Shaw

#8. Tess was my first experience of a woman who had inhabited her weirdness, moved into the areas of herself that made her distinct from those around her, and learned how to display them proudly.

Alice Sebold

#9. Bubba showed it to his mother. Then he played the tape. It was about ten minutes of moaning, wailing, and some chains rattling.

C.L. Bevill

#10. There is no sound so terrible as a man's sorrow for his own death.

Sue Grafton

#11. Obviously, until you write Fuck It, We're All Going To Die, the Newbery Medal is still going to go to people like me.

Neil Gaiman

#12. faith is not a static, theoretical concept, but rather is central to one's life and is thus developed carefully and allowed to flourish in all areas of life, it becomes measurable in its effects.

Thomas E. Woodward

#13. This Christmas, as the spirit of the season permeates our hearts, let us do something that expresses our feelings in an outward way, showing that we understand that the babe born in Bethlehem is the real Redeemer.

Gary E. Stevenson

#14. From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.

Loren Eiseley

#15. For every mountain, there is a miracle.

Robert H. Schuller

#16. Maureen had been born with the face of a gargoyle on the body of a sylph.

James Purdy