Tanks Quotes - Page 11

• Why can't we be friends now?" said the other, holding him affectionately. "It's what I want. It's what you want." But the horses didn't want it — they swerved apart: the earth didn't want it, sending up rocks through which riders must pass single file; the temple, the tank, the jail, the palace, the birds, the carrion, the Guest House, that came into view as they emerged from the gap and saw Mau beneath: they didn't want it, they said in their hundred voices "No, not yet," and the sky said "No, not there.

  E. M. Forster

  Horse, Rocks, Views

  E. M. Forster (2010). “A Passage to India”, p.322, RosettaBooks

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• I disconnected and made a mental note not to call Tank unless I was bleeding profusely, and he was the only other person on earth.

  Janet Evanovich

  Earth, Bleeding, Notes

  Janet Evanovich (2007). “Twelve Sharp”, p.67, Macmillan

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• Of course, the underlying structure of everything in England is posh. There is no in-between with these people. You have to walk a mile to find a telephone booth, but when you find it, it is built as if the senseless dynamiting of pay phones had been a serious problem at some time in the past. And a British mailbox can presumably stop a German tank.

  Neal Stephenson

  Past, Phones, People

  "Cryptonomicon". Book by Neal Stephenson, 1999.

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• When Grandma Mazur is talking about the reason for the improved play of her 91-year-old bowling teammate, she said: "She's doing better now that we got her the longer tubing to her oxygen tank.

  Janet Evanovich

  Grandma, Oxygen, Talking

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• It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.' 'Right, it's primarily his hotness,' I said. 'It can be sort of blinding,' he said. 'It actually did blind our friend Isaac,' I said. 'Terrible tragedy, that. But can I help my own deadly beauty?' 'You cannot.' 'It is my burden, this beautiful face.' 'Not to mention your body.' 'Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away,' he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank.

  John Green

  Beautiful, Stupid, Oxygen

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• Duhhhhhhh, tanks, Buttercup.

  William Goldman

  Buttercup

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.45, A&C Black

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• Hey Sydney," she said, giving me a small, crooked smile as she entered the room. Her flashing, dark eyes were friendly, but they were also assessing everything in the room, much as Eddie's gaze was. It was a guardian thing. Rose was about my height and dressed very casually in jeans and a red tank top. But, as always, there was something as exotic and dangerous about her beauty that made her stand out from everyone else. She was like a tropical flower in this dark, stuffy room. One that could kill you.

  Richelle Mead

  Flower, Eye, Dark

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.38, Penguin

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• I’ll be real discreet,” Tank said. As discreet as a six-foot-six, no-neck guy weighing three hundred and fifty pounds, all dressed in black SWAT clothes, with a Glock holstered at his side could be.

  Janet Evanovich

  Real, Feet, Clothes

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• but all I could think was in New York that kid would have been stuck in a straitjacket practically from birth and dangled over a tank full of Educational Consultants and Remedial Experts all snapping at his ankles for the next twenty years arguing about his Special Needs and getting paid plenty for it.

  Meg Rosoff

  New York, Educational, Kids

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• I took the jacket off, changed my T-shirt for a dark gray tank top, slipped on the tangle of the back sheath, and put the jacket on again. Thugs are us. Great. Just add a super-tight ponytail and loads of mascara, and I’d be ripe to play a supervillain’s evil mistress. Ve haf vays of making you gif us your DNA sample.

  Ilona Andrews

  Dark, Thug, Dna

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• (Unsure if she should laugh or groan, Astrid held fast to the tank before her as Zarek pushed the snowmachine to the limits. It vibrated so badly that she half-expected it to disintegrate underneath them.) Cap’n, I don’t think she’ll hold. The warp engines can’t take any more. It’s going to blow apart. (Astrid)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Blow, Thinking, Laughing

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dance With the Devil”, p.226, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• Sejal had not thought of her home, or of India as a whole, as cool. She was dimly aware, however, of a white Westerner habit of wearing other cultures like T-shirts—the sticker bindis on club kids, sindoor in the hair of an unmarried pop star, Hindi characters inked carelessly on tight tank tops and pale flesh. She knew Americans liked to flash a little Indian or Japanese or African. They were always looking for a little pepper to put in their dish.

  Adam Rex

  Stars, Character, Kids

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• And you came back to Lyrian?" Galloran said in disbelief. "Believe it or not, I came through the same hippopotamus that brought me here the first time. Jumped into the tank on purpose. I wanted to keep others from wasting their time pursuing the Word. And I couldn't ditch Rachel." Galloran smiled. "Truly, you are possessed by that species of madness that begets heroism.

  Brandon Mull

  Believe, Heroism, Purpose

  Brandon Mull (2012). “Seeds of Rebellion”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• First of all, it's a curse. Voodoo. As soon as a guy gets put on the cover of The Hockey News, it's like Sports Illustrated. He goes right into the tank.

  Dean Lombardi

  Sports, Hockey, Guy

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• Robots are emotionless, so they don't get upset if their buddy is killed, they don't commit crimes of rage and revenge. But ... they see an 80-year-old grandmother in a wheelchair the same way they see a T80 tank; they're both just a series of zeros and ones.

  P. W. Singer

  Revenge, Motivation, Inspiration

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• My glowing form was so heavy, its feet sank into the top of the tank. “Sekhmet!” I yelled. The lioness whirled and snarled, trying to locate my voice. “Up here, kitty!” I called. She spotted me and her ears went back. “Horus?” ‘Unless you know another guy with a falcon head.

  Rick Riordan

  Glowing, Voice, Feet

  Rick Riordan (2013). “The Kane Chronicles: The Complete Series”, p.315, Penguin UK

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• Ranger’s gonna hate this,” Tank said. “Better to get shot than to have to explain the gate. Bad enough I got a horse that smells like his shower gel.

  Janet Evanovich

  Horse, Hate, Smell

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Plum Lucky”, p.93, Macmillan

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• They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.

  Anne Carson

  Eels, Two, Bottom

  Anne Carson (1999). “Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse”, Vintage

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• I got a shotgun and a backhoe and no one looks under a septic tank for a dead body. (Bubba)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Looks, Body, Shotguns

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.76, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Yes, heaven forbid I not be protected from tanks.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Car, Heaven, Protected

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• People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.

  Dan Lipinski

  Travel, Home, Air

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• I love Los Angeles, and it's been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who's living them? You don't play characters that are celebrities - you play guys who know what to do when their septic tank's blocked.

  Matthew McConaughey

  Running, Character, Play

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• I flew a full string of 35 combat missions over some of the most heavily defended targets in Europe. We were hitting Hitler's oil refineries, his tank factories, his aircraft factories, his railway yards. Those were our prime targets.

  George McGovern

  Europe, Oil, Yards

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• I've talked to so many people, men and women alike, that get overweight and their self-esteem just goes in the tank. They think they're judged. They think they're unattractive.

  Phil McGraw

  Self Esteem, Men, Thinking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

  Carl Jung

  Christian, Spiritual, Europe

  Carl Gustav Jung, Murray Stein (1999). “Jung on Christianity”, p.189, Princeton University Press

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