Quotes of: Struck Keyword

Katsa watched the long grass moving around them. The wind pushed it, attacked it, struck it in one place and then another. It rose and fell and rose again. It flowed, like water.

Graceling

It was even said that some birds spring to life in the tension of accidental chords being struck in the ether, a confluence of arbitrary sound waves from unrelated sources: a piano, a truck, a breaking bottle---a bird.

The Hotel of Irrevocable Acts

It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.

Back When We Were Grownups

Here society is reduced to its original elements, the whole fabric of art and conventionality is struck rudely to pieces, and men find themselves suddenly brought back to the wants and resources of their original natures.

Francis Parkman

The day I charge an unbeliever like you for the word of God will be the day I'm struck dead by lightning, and with good reason.

The Angel's Game

Dumbledore raised his finger for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

The meteorites of 1908 and 1947 had struck uninhabited wilderness; but by the end of the twenty-first century there was no region left on Earth that could be safely used for celestial target practice.

Rendezvous with Rama

You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not.

Struck By Lightning: The Carson Phillips Journal

Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was. Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.

Men at Arms

I was still ringing. I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

The immediate impact of its soaring peaks induced a silence so impregnated with its powerful presence that even Edith was struck dumb.

Picnic at Hanging Rock

See," he said, "the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life.

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens and Peter and Wendy

And it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who had been around. A boy who couldn't remember if he was Catholic or not.

The Rules of Attraction

Like lightning she snatched her axe, and struck him on the neck - deep - once - twice - his life-blood gushed out, staining her feet. The stars touched midnight.

The Were-Wolf

I dreamed I was a single moment in a single day. A note struck and vanished. A sounding. A reckoning. Gone.

The World and Other Places: Stories

I always knew I was brainy. It struck me when I was a child that I wanted to be an adult because I never felt I belonged among children whose minds were so much simpler than mine.

Maximillian Degenerez

I have stopped painting. I stand in front of the easel, brush in hand, but my mind is blank. It is as if I have been struck by a strange kind of blindness.

Astrid and Veronika

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

Peter Lewis Allen

Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world.

Paul Theroux

Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one thing struck them as a decorative display opportunity tragically lost.

Peter York

Of course, when strangers see me, they're star-struck because of who I am, but my friends take me as a friend because I'm their friend - not because I'm a movie star.

Quvenzhane Wallis