Aisle Quotes - Page 2

I stand in the center aisle of the auditorium, a wounded zebra in a National Geographic special, looking for someone, anyone to sit next to. A predator approaches: gray jock buzz cut, whistle around a neck thicker than his head. Probably a social studies teacher, hired to coach a blood sport.

Laurie Halse Anderson

Sports, Teacher, Zebras

Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.5, Macmillan

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Sometimes I come here just to be a lost mariner
but I am never lost:
there are the snowflakes frozen to the porthole of a jewelry store,
here is the treasure chest open to a single pearl
laid on a velvet slab,
there is the plashing of faces in the aisles
and the row of lockers stuffed with the coats and hats of the drowned
and it is night, and the moon rows over
the gentle waters of the parking lot.

Nancy Eimers

Moon, Night, Water

Nancy Eimers (2006). “A Grammar to Waking: Poems”, Carnegie-Mellon University Press

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In a badly designed book, the letters mill and stand like starving horses in a field. In a book designed by rote, they sit like stale bread and mutton on the page. In a well-made book, where designer, compositor and printer have all done their jobs, no matter how many thousands of lines and pages, the letters are alive. They dance in their seats. Sometimes they rise and dance in the margins and aisles.

Robert Bringhurst

Horse, Jobs, Book

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What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes!--and you, Garcia Lorca, what were you doing down by the watermelons?

Allen Ginsberg

Baby, Husband, Night

Allen Ginsberg (2001). “Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4”, p.29, City Lights Publishers

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In the opening to the Mary Tyler Moore Show Mary's in the supermarket, hurrying through the aisles. She pauses at the meat case, picks up a steak and checks the price. Then rolls her eyes, shrugs and tosses it in the cart. That's kind of how I feel. Sure I would have liked things to be different. But, 'roll of eyes' what can you do? 'shrug' I threw the meat in my cart and moved on.

Augusten Burroughs

Eye, Meat, Moved On

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Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.

Ron Wyden

America, Broken, Silence

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From the political angle, I'm trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, 'Are you a red state or blue state?', I say, 'I'm purple.' I think there are great ideas on both sides of the aisle and neither side has cornered the market.

Brad Thor

Mean, Thinking, Purple

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If I didn't have a front-row seat on history, it was at least a seat on the aisle.

Dan Rather

Seats, Ifs, Fronts

Twitter post from Apr 23, 2014

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Both sides of the aisle - Republican and Democrat - have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone's got to.

Rand Paul

Addresses, Sides, Republican

"Ron Paul and Rand Paul discuss Politics and Healthcare on CNN". "CNN American Morning" with Kiran Chetry, www.ronpaul.com. August 6, 2009.

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I have found people on both sides of the aisle, white and black, that'll give you the shirt off their back. And I've also found people that won't give you a piece of bread if you're starving to death.

Al Green

White, Giving, People

"Al Green: What I've Learned" by Larry Getlen, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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People have no confidence that Washington, both sides of aisle, are coming together to try and do what's right for the economy.

Michael Bloomberg

People, Trying, Together

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I was in the supermarket the other day, and I met a lady in the aisle where they keep the generic brands. Her name was 'woman.

Steven Wright

Names, Mets, Generic

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There's information about everything from poetry to pills, from picture frames to pyramids, and from pudding to psychology--and that's just in the P aisle, which we're walking down right now.

Daniel Handler

Pyramids, Psychology, Pills

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When you accept a role in a pilot, you automatically sign up for five years. You think it's scary to walk down the aisle? Try signing a five-year contract for a show you may not want to be part of down the road.

Jennifer Aniston

Thinking, Years, Scary

"Jennifer Aniston: Screens Goddess". Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. October 24, 2008.

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In modern day evangelism, this precious doctrine [of regeneration] has been reduced to nothing more than a human decision to raise one's hand, walk an aisle, or pray a 'sinner's prayer.' As a result, the majority of Americans believe that they've been 'born again' even though their thoughts, words, and deeds are a continual contradiction to the nature and will of God.

Paul Washer

Prayer, Believe, Hands

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My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding.

Carl Hiaasen

Book, Different, Literature

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[in reference to turkey bowling] He [Tommy] squinted and picked his target, then took his steps and sent the bird sliding down the aisle. A collective gasp rose from the crew as the fourteen-pound, self-basting, fresh-frozen projectile of wholesome savory goodness plowed into the soap bottles like a freight train into a chorus line of drunken grandmothers.

Christopher Moore

Grandmother, Self, Turkeys

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Women kill me. They really do. I don't mean I'm oversexed or anything like that—although I am quite sexy. I just like them, I mean. They're always leaving their goddam bags out in the middle of the aisle.

J. D. Salinger

Sexy, Strong Women, Mean

J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

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I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether it's strolling down the aisles of a bookshop with no idea whatsoever of what it is that we want to read and suddenly finding the most perfect, most wonderfully suitable book staring us right in the face. Unblinking. Or a chance meeting with a stranger or friend who recommends a book we would never ordinarily reach for. Books have the ability to find their own way into our lives.

Cecelia Ahern

Believe, Book, Ideas

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Whenever a day comes when I can stand and preach God's Word without an agony of anxiety lest the people will not accept Christ; whenever a day comes when I can see men and women coming down the aisles without joy in my heart, I'll quit preaching.

Billy Sunday

God, Heart, Men

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...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles.

Marisha Pessl

Letting Go, Lonely, America

Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.53, Penguin

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Presumptuous for me to say, but at least - at a minimum - I've been able to influence the direction of the Democratic Party on foreign policy. And I've been relatively - presumptuous to say - relatively successful legislatively in the Senate, being able to win a lot of Republican friends, and being able to cross the aisle.

Joe Biden

Party, Successful, Winning

"Biden's Brief" by Ryan Lizza, www.newyorker.com. October 20, 2008.

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As I think all Americans understand on both sides of the aisle, the Social Security system as it is structured today is a pay-as-you-go system.

John Shadegg

Thinking, Security Systems, Pay

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Hell came right along with God, hand in hand. The stink of sulfur swirled in the air of the church, fire burned in the aisles, and brimstone rained out of the rafters. From the evangelist's oven mouth spewed images of a place with pitchforks, and devils, and lakes of fire that burned forever. God had fixed a place like that because he loved us so much.

Harry Crews

Fire, Lakes, Air

Harry Crews (1993). “Classic Crews: A Harry Crews Reader”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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There's a man in the world who is never turned down, whatever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in the populous town, or out where the farmers makes hay; he's greeted with pleasure on deserts of sand, and deep in the aisles of the woods; wherever he goes there's a welcoming hand-he's the man who delivers the goods.

Walt Whitman

Men, Hands, Desert

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