Quotes of: Sick Keyword

After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was calling in sick in order to work on my novel.

Philipp Meyer

The welfare system was designed to do something different when it was started than what it does now. It was a safety net to help people get back to work: if they were sick, it would help them get back.

Ross Kemp

[Dino shows Frawley a file on Desmond Elden] FBI S.A. Adam Frawley: Desmond Elden? Dino Ciampa: Yeah. Works at Vericom. Never seen the inside of a jail cell. Now, most of these guys get no-show jobs. They take the armored truck, foreman goes, "Yeah, ...

The Town

They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.

Complete Poems

I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died.

Four Day Planet

He wondered how sick in heart a woman needed to be for her to forsake a delight in flowers.

To Forestall the Darkness: A Novel of Ancient Rome

I wish I could fly like that hawk, rising and falling with the still spaces in the air, far above all this sickness and death and evil.

God's Daughter

I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it.

The Bell Jar

Women are brought up to think of others. [...] When I start to think of myself I feel sick.

The Buddha of Suburbia

I remember the first time I felt that I was sharing the stage with someone spectacular was dancing with Beyonce. It was the dancers, the band, Beyonce and me in front of thousands of people. That was sick. It was pretty amazing that I got to travel t...

Harry Shum, Jr.

I coined this term 'freedom thru limitation' back in the '90s because I was sick of art being treated like pop, because of this boring 'anything can be art' theory.

Billy Childish

Competition is healthy. Especially when all your competitors are unhealthy, and hopefully sick and absent during the competition.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

I'm guessing you're tits deep in a horror novel. Something by Laymon, or Ketchum, or one of those sick fucks you read.

AFTERTASTE: An Extreme Horror Novel

The night seemed suddenly defiled by the absence of music, as if the silence itself was injecting a sickness that only another song could cure.

The Accidental Siren

The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.

The Heroes

O rose, you look sick. O rose, wake up and sing.

I Am Dead Man Alive

Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.

I Am Half-Sick of Shadows

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

Jane Eyre

At the very dawn of history, the care of the sick was actually superior to what the great majority of mankind receive today when ill.

Rubies in the Sand

In my family, you can rot to hell on the inside as long as you’re flawless on the outside, which is really sick, but also hard to unlearn.

Such a Pretty Girl

Mulled ale for the frozen man, And mulled ale for the weary: For mulled ale is the body's friend And makes the sick heart merry.

The Long Ships