Quotes of: Quicksand Keyword

[Taggart spots Bart and Charlie on a hand-cart sinking into quicksand] Taggart: Oh, shit. Quicksand! [Lassos the hand-cart and drags it but not the men out of the quicksand] Taggart: Dang, that was lucky. Doggone near lost a four hundred dollar handc...

Blazing Saddles

What are friends for, if not to help bear our sins?

The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories

I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.

The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories

Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, thought I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.

The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories

Quicksand is nature’s way of saying slow down. Me pushing you in quicksand is my way of saying be still and let me love you. Isn’t it funny how a lasso looks like a noose?

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

George Sand

The Hall Of Fame Is Built On Quicksand

Dean Cavanagh

I worship the quicksand he walks in.

Art Buchwald

When I was a kid we had a sandbox. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child...eventually.

Steven Wright

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.

Steven Wright

With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can’t start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It’s like quicksand … hope...

Sylvia Plath

Don't let the magic slip away," he says, "or you'll sink into the quicksand of the ordinary.

A Mountain of Crumbs

Let your past be your spring-board, not your quicksand.

Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

If there's not any endgame, we're in quicksand. We take one more step, and we're still there, and there's no way out.

Richard Shelby

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

Hannah More

Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

Rose Wilder Lane

The old adage of forgive and forget became a trudge through quicksand on a beach as high tide crashed onto the shore.

Bow of the Moon

Writing is like trying to escape quicksand. The harder you try the faster you sink.

The Red Sun: Legends of Orkney

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

John Updike

I did a movie called 'Quicksand No Escape' with Donald Sutherland and Tim Matheson. I think I was maybe 5. I was really little. Yeah, it was fun. And actually, Felicity Huffman played my mom.

Kaley Cuoco

He felt the quicksand of failure sucking at his feet, threatening to bury him, to drown him. Jeana E. Mann. Intoxicated (Kindle Location 2125).

Intoxicated