Quotes of: Blue-collar Keyword

Whenever a person says to you that they are as innocent as lambs in all concerning money, look well after your own money, for they are dead certain to collar it, if they can. Whenever a person proclaims to you 'In worldly matters I'm a child,' you co...

Bleak House

I tried to be as inconspicuous as possible as I lay the sausage against my ear. Abruptly, my cell phone went dead. A drop of grease dribbled into the dead center of my ear, creeping like a worm down onto my neck and below the collar of my shirt. A gr...

John Dies at the End

How small and neat and comically serious the other men looked, with their grey-flecked crew cuts and their button-down collars and their brisk little hurrying feet! There were endless desperate swarms of them, hurrying through the station and the str...

Revolutionary Road

Emilia typed in her password and checked her inbox. A review by the Secretariat de Gobernación of drug cartel activities across Mexico. A report of a robbery in Acapulco’s poorest barrio neighborhood that would probably never be investigated. Noti...

Made in Acapulco

"I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: A huge four-footed limestone form Sits in the desert, sinking in the sand. Its whiskered face, though marred by wind and storm, Still flaunts the dainty ears, the collar band And feline traits the scul...

Poetry for Cats: The Definitive Anthology of Distinguished Feline Verse

Why are you so angry?” His question surprised me, and I laughed a little. “This isn’t angry,” I smirked. “This is just me. Get used to it.

A Different Blue

I was asleep for almost ten years. And then this big goober with all these fucking weird animals moved into my house, and I was suddenly awake.

Dex in Blue

Maybe the moral of the legend is that we are all carved, created, and formed by a master hand. Maybe we are all works of art.

A Different Blue

Usually redemption implies rescue - being saved. What were you being saved from?' he inquired, his voice carefully neutral. 'Ugliness.

A Different Blue

Just one look and then I knew that all I longed for long ago was you

Dream When You're Feeling Blue

There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

I love the unabashed over-buttered, over-creamed, deep-fried, gooey, over-sugared excessiveness of Amish food,

Even Cat Sitters Get the Blues

Strangers," the Blue Man said, "are just family yo have yet to come to know.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

He was a Frenchman, a melancholy-looking man. His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle.

The Girl in Blue

Behind my eyelids, I saw him dancing in spirals of coloured light, emerald, blue, and brilliant purple, enfolding him like the wings of an electric angel.

Glitterland

You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn’t question knowing.

Hearts in Atlantis

Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.

Black and Blue

Oliver liked to play the part of disaffected youth, but he liked shopping in SoHo even more.

Blue Bloods

It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt.

Blue Bloods

I glanced out the window at the signs of spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright.

Bowl of Cherries

Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library.

Blue Dahlia