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What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone’s orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.
– Anne Carson
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- He was a man more concerned with the truth than his arrest quota, a philosophy that would often have him skate on thin ice with the higher ups. – Bruce Crown
- A lot of books in the self-help section of your bookstore really belong in the fiction section. – Steve Maraboli
- Nothing like an orange and olive green-striped couch sitting on orange carpet and surrounded by dark wood paneling to get the inspiration rolling. – Erynn Mangum
- The whole point of straws, I had thought, was that you did not have to set down the slice of pizza to suck a dose of Coke while reading a paperback. – Nicholson Baker
- Your party kicked so much ass!Even though you suck so much! It’s like, instead of blood, your heart pumps liquid suck! But thanks for the beer! – John Green
- There is no compromise when it comes to someones delicate feelings, the only way out is to stop pretending and set yourself free from someones life. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- If all it takes to motivate you is a quote then this quote has nothing to say -“ except to go soar with the freakin’ eagles. – Ryan Lilly
- A wise quote may not be famous and a famous quote may not be wise! Stick to the wise as the other one is just a bubble! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- The best quote has never been said nor written.I do not need a quote.P. HermansNetherlands, August 11, 2016 – Petra Hermans
- I Like this quote I dislike this quote-œMy house is run, essentially, by an adopted, fully clawed cat with a mean nature. – Anthony Bourdain
- [S]omehow, without his being aware of it, time had coated his awe with a rind of disillusionment, and the wine of wonder had turned to vinegar. – Joan D Vinge
- I was one of those. I meddled with dark powers. Isummoned demons. I ate the entire little cheese, including the rind. – Patrick Rothfuss
- On a cloudless night, inky dark, with only a rind of a moon above, the Golem and the Jinni went walking together along the Prince Street rooftops. – Helene Wecker
- ..snow gently settles like dust in a shaft – for one moment there is no one else – only the wind like the hiss of an ice skate … – John Geddes
- A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself. – George Bernard Shaw
- It’s a discomfiting thing to have the person you love more than anything in the world toss a knife at your friend’s head and walk away. – Cecily White
- But when justice is done the world drops away. – Anne Carson
- Be patient. Everything has it’s time. You can’t make an orange mature right away because you are hungry – Bangambiki Habyarimana
- Virtue will cut your head off, vice will only cut your hair. – Honor de Balzac
- Hip hop in my veins, if you cut cut me I will bleed. – Nathan Feuerstein NF
- you cut me deep bitch,cut me like surgery. – Kanye West
- Reality offers us such wealth that we must cut some of it out on the spot, simplify. The question is, do we always cut out what we should? Â – Henri CartierBresson
- If he’d cut off his right arm to make her happy, then how much harder could it be to cut out his heart? – Kathy Lyons
- Hatred is like a tow-edged sword. When you cut the other person, you cut yourself. – Haruki Murakami
- If you cut a tree down make sure you also cut the roots for if not a new tree will come – Hamza Akhtar
- We suck the pain from each other’s lips until everything just blurs away – Riha J
- Several people toss and turn in their sleep, startled by the lines of the newspapers in their dreams, knives out, lights out, lights out, knives out! – HC Artmann
- They will turn you over, toss you about, fob you off, take you less seriously, because to get there, you must walk on your own feet. – Chinonye J Chidolue
- If at first you don’t succeed, tweak it before you toss it. – Todd Stocker
- He is too presumptuous about the inanities of appearances, poor realities gone for a toss. – Aporva Kala
- Words of war, on a piece of paper. Where peace is torn off, crumbled and toss in the waste basket. – Anthony Liccione
- Want to enjoy an restful day? Wake up, turn your phone on, meditate, look at the sky-”then toss your phone into the bushes. – Waylon H Lewis
- If someone offers him enough gold, it becomes a toss of the dice, and not even Mat Cauthon could say how they’ll land. – Robert Jordan
- Should she slam his head into the bar or toss her beer on him? Damn shame to waste good beer. – Mina Khan
- Burning fevers flee no swifter from your body if you toss under figured counterpanes and coverlets of crimson than if you must lie in rude homespun. – Titus Lucretius Carus
- With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline. Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown. – Richelle E Goodrich
- With the best of intentions you toss me a lifeline. Failing to see how a piece of rope will do me any good, I ignore it and drown. – Richelle E Goodrich
- He’s totally caught me, and I’m never letting him toss me back. – Cassie Mae
- Memories fall like snowflakes upon my dreams. The snowflakes toss and tumble, each different and yet the same. – Lisa Schroeder
- There’s only one thing you can do: Toss your pebble in the river, watch it ripple, and know you have moved the ocean. – KM Douglas