Brushes Quotes - Page 4

• His tongue is by turns a sponge, a brush, a comb. He cleans himself, he smooths himself, he knows what is proper.

  Hippolyte Taine

  Cat, Tongue, Smooth

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• Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes in. Mud slides, brush fires, coastal erosion, mass killings, et cetera. We can relax and enjoy these disasters because in our hearts we feel that California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

  Don DeLillo

  Heart, Fire, Erosion

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.77, Pan Macmillan

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• And now I was trying to brush my hair,you know,when I thought about it,and looking at myself in mirrors,wondering if I was pretty.Pretty! A year ago,when my haair got in my eyes I hacked it off with a knife.The only thing important about my clothes was whether they were to stiff to move fast in battle. And Fang had been my best friend and an excellent fighter.

  James Patterson

  Moving, Eye, Mirrors

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• - Might it console you to know that I expect nothing but torture from her return? That I regard you as a bird of paradise? She shook her head. - That my admiration for you is painfully strong? - I want Van – she cried – and not intangible admiration. - Intangible? You goose. You my gauge it, you may brush it once very lightly with the knuckles of you gloved hand. I said knuckles. I said once. That will do. I can't kiss you. Not even your burning face. Good-bye, pet. Tell Edmond to take a nap after he returns. I shall need him at two in the morning.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Morning, Strong, Kissing

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• Grow the lawn and mow the lawn always keep the TV on, brush your teeth and kill the germs, poison apples, poison worms.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Apples, Teeth, Poison

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• Shave that jaw, brush that hair, tone down the crazy in the eyes, and he would have to fight women off with that crossbow.

  Ilona Andrews

  Crazy, Eye, Fighting

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.46, Penguin

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• we reach with our hands and brush away the clouds and pierce the sky to reach the moon and Mars but we still can't reach the truth

  Tite Kubo

  Moon, Clouds, Hands

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• Why is it that only in the very beginnings of a relationship are you aware of the heat coming from inside a person, of the number of inches you would have to move for your shoulders to brush as if it were an accident?

  Jodi Picoult

  Moving, Numbers, Heat

  Jodi Picoult (1996). “Mercy”, p.195, Penguin

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• Pressed up against him, I can feel the thud of his heart against mine, his ribcase expanding and contracting rapidly against my chest, the warm whisper of his breath tickling the side of my neck, the brush of his leg against my thigh. Resting my arms on his shoulders, I pull back a little to get a look at his face. But he isn't smiling any more.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Heart, Looks, Legs

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• I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Ignorance, Way

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• "This isn't over," I said. "After everything we've been through, you don't get the right to brush me off. I'm not letting you off that easily." I wasn't sure if it was a threat, my last stab at defiance, or irrational words spoken straight from my splintered heart. "I want to protect you," Patch said quietly. He stood so close. All strength and heat and silent power. I couldn't escape him, now or ever. He'd always be there, consuming my every thought, my heart locked in his hands. I was drawn to him by forces I couldn't control, let alone escape. "But you didn't".

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Heart, Hands, Want

  "Silence". Book by Becca Fitzpatrick, www.mtv.com. October 4, 2011.

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• I'm afraid they're in love," he said, concerned. "They don't want to leave you." He lifted one hand from her waist to gently brush a pair from her neck, where their wings fanned against her jaw. Melancholy, he said, "I know just how they feel.

  Laini Taylor

  Hands, Wings, Want

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• She still felt his gaze on her like the brush of a finger across the back of her neck, making her shiver.

  Cassandra Clare

  Necks, Fingers, Shiver

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Clockwork Prince”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• God is not remote from us. He is at the point of my pen, my (pick) shovel, my paint brush, my (sewing) needle - and my heart and thoughts.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Heart, Paint, Shovels

  "Your Occasional Pope" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. April 29, 2015.

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• I merely feel emptyness. A hollow of dead brush where flowers use to bloom.

  Suzanne Collins

  Flower, Use, Feels

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• Tree It is foolish to let a young redwood grow next to a house. Even in this one lifetime, you will have to choose. That great calm being, this clutter of soup pots and books-- Already the first branch-tips brush at the window. Softly, calmly, immensity taps at your life.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Book, House, Tree

  Jane Hirshfield, “Tree”

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• I exist. It's sweet, so sweet, so slow. And light: you'd think it floated all by itself. It stirs. It brushes by me, melts and vanishes. Gently, gently. There is bubbling water in my mouth. I swallow. It slides down my throat, it caresses me — and now it comes up again into my mouth. For ever I shall have a little pool of whitish water in my mouth - lying low - grazing my tongue. And this pool is still me. And the tongue. And the throat is me.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Sweet, Lying, Thinking

  "Being and Nothingness".

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• Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.

  Virginia Woolf

  Wall, Years, Bricks And Mortar

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.617, Wordsworth Editions

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• On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Hands, Path Of Love

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• You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools as much as brush and pigment. You cannot be an artist until you are civilized. You cannot be civilized until you learn. To be civilized is to know where you belong in the continuum of our art and your world. To surmount the past, you must know the past.

  John Logan

  Art, Philosophy, Drama

  John Logan (2012). “Red”, p.13, Oberon Books

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• That's ridiculous. The only point in having enemies is so you can defeat them, kill them, brush them aside." "Or give them a chance to redeem themselves.

  Derek Landy

  Giving, Enemy, Ridiculous

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• I'm always amazed at friends who say they try to read at night in bed but always end up falling asleep. I have the opposite problem. If a book is good I can't go to sleep, and stay up way past my bedtime, hooked on the writing. Is anything better than waking up after a late-night read and diving right back into the plot before you even get out of bed to brush your teeth?

  John Waters

  Book, Fall, Sleep

  John Waters (2010). “Role Models”, p.153, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• You notice how they always put the fruit and veg at the entrance to the supermarket? You go in thinking 'this is a fresh shop, everything in here is FRESH! I will do well to shop here'. You never go straight to the bit with the toilet paper, loo brushes and such do you? You'd think 'this is a POO shop! Everything in here is themed on POO!

  Eddie Izzard

  Thinking, Paper, Toilets

  "Eddie Izzard: Definite Article ", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• Once, I cut off a man's head, but he did not know it until he tried to brush his hair. Then it fell off.

  George R. R. Martin

  Cutting, Men, Hair

  George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.1011, Bantam

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• She grew more and more silent about what really mattered. She curled inside herself like one of those black chimney brushes, the little shellfish you see on the beach, and you touch them, and then go inside and don’t come out.

  Janet Frame

  Beach, Black, Littles

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