Quotes of: Striking Keyword

The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.

Jane Eyre / Les Hauts de Hurle-Vent / Agnes Grey

addiction is an insidious disease that's always lurking nearby like a snake ready to strike.

Juke Box Hero: My Five Decades in Rock 'n' Roll

..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur.

Roderick Hudson

Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous.

Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

...Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man's faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil's office.

The Scarlet Letter

Pictures ... flashed on her in sudden color, too much color, shocking color, the color that leaps out of black when lightning strikes at night.

The Silence of the Lambs

Curran looked back at me. "Why is it you always attract creeps?" "You tell me." Ha! Walked right into that one, yes, he did.

Magic Strikes

Every time I think you’ve reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe—ever expanding.

Magic Strikes

He scooped me up and suddenly I was pressed against his chest. “Were you worried about me?” "No, I’m ranting for fun, because I’m a disagreeable bitch!

Magic Strikes

You said sloppy! Look, I didn't even use my sword; I hit him with my head, like a moron.

Magic Strikes

I sighed and put Slayer between the front seats. "Stay here. Guard the car." Saiman shut the door. "Is the sword sentient?" "No. But I like to pretend it is.

Magic Strikes

Kate Daniels, trained negotiator. When in possession of some valuable information, give it away to the first sexy man you see with no guarantee of return.

Magic Strikes

I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens.

Matched

Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.

The Moviegoer

Today, tomorrow," she said. "A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out.

The Orphan Master's Son

Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.

The Poisonwood Bible

No matter how many strikes are hurled at you, only you decide when you’re out.

Postcards and Pearls:Life Lessons from Solo Moments in New York

BELLADONNA, n. In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Why is it that you still beguile me – As wind, stone, bird – and all the likes? Why is that you smile on me – With sudden summer lightning strikes?

White Flock

Christianity is like a nail," he (Yemelian Yaroslavsky). "The harder you strike it, the deeper it goes.

Who Is This Man?: The Unpredictable Impact of the Inescapable Jesus

…the door banged wide open, and the most striking man I had ever seen stood in the frame, the black winds whipping around him like a chariot of storm clouds.

Year of the Wolf