Quotes of: Proverbial Keyword

There is still nothing on the proverbial scoreboard.

John Motson

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

Rudolph A. Marcus

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

Alexander Smith

I was a litigation lawyer, following the crowd off the proverbial cliff, when I pressed the pause button.

Robin S. Sharma

There's no question that Kennedy was an utter failure as a passer of laws during his proverbial thousand days.

Rick Perlstein

I fear oblivion' he said. "I fear it like a proverbial blind man fears the dark

Augustus Waters The Fault in Our Stars

You don't go walking into the proverbial lion's den lightly. You start with a good breakfast.

Storm Front

I took a deep breath and sighed in awe. My proverbial penis had just gotten a serious chubby.

Sins of the Father

He will not let you come barging in to his world like the proverbial bull in the china shop.

Narcissus in Chains

The hours went by quickly, like the proverbial sands slipping down, down, down the center of the hourglass.

Luisa Across the Bay

There is a proverbial saying chiefly concerned with warning against too closely calculating the numerical value of un-hatched chicks.

Stardust

Awakening your spiritual self is like having a second childhood with faulty parents, broken bones and proverbial brussel sprouts.

Unnatural Truth

The lesson is, because there will be many lemons in life, to learn to make the proverbial lemonade - and be open and honest. That's the best way of doing damage control and positioning yourself for success.

Vivek Wadhwa

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

Lafcadio Hearn

More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful '70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun.

Eric Alterman

I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'A long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future.

Romeo LeBlanc

I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.

The Fault in Our Stars

Sienna Rivers, ex-nerd, undisputed reigning chess champion of the class of 09 and the proverbial all round wise-ass degenerate pain in your backside.

Beautiful Bedlam

One of the most persistent images in American urbanism is that of the proverbial city on a hill, as first envisioned on these shores by the Puritan John Winthrop, via the Gospel according to Saint Matthew.

Martin Filler

As the Tories know, the problem with setting yourself up as a shining example for others to follow is that when you get caught out, that proverbial substance really hits the fan.

Jo Brand

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.

Julie Burchill