Crawling Quotes - Page 6

• As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal.

  Charles Dickens

  Wall, Night, Men

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.78

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• Stuff I like is getting trashed and stuff that is being praised I think is terrible. I don't really feel in sync with what's happening, but at the same time, what I think keeps me afloat is that I try not to be, and don't want to be, very indulgent. I try to make the films as lean as possible, and to not spend a lot of time crawling up my own ass creatively.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Thinking, Stuff I Like, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Tomer: “What's this?” Cabinet: “Wt's ths?” Wedge: “Cabinet.” Tomer: “I know it's a cabinet, but it's talking.” Cabinet: “...ts tlkng” Janson: “Oh that. It's the Catann Minister of Crawling Into Very Small Spaces.” Tycho: “He bet Wedge he could fold himself in the that cabinet, around the shelves and all.” Hobbie: “Never bet against Wedge. The Minister gets to stay in there until he admits that it was a stupid bet and that Wedge doesn't owe him anything.

  Aaron Allston

  Stupid, Talking, Space

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• As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were becoming that page itself, that surface on which her story would be written and across which there blew a hot and merciless wind, turning her body to papyrus, her skin to parchment, her soul to paper.

  Salman Rushdie

  Wind, Soul, Skins

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• This was my one brush with love. Was it love? It felt awful enough. I spent another two years crawling around in the skin of it, smoking too much and growing too thin and having stray thoughts of jumping from my balcony like a tortured heroine in a Russian novel.

  Paula McLain

  Jumping, Years, Two

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.33, Ballantine Books

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• Now this is really going to impress Valentine." "I don't know," Clary said. "Other crack teams get bat boomerangs and wall-crawling powers; we get the Aquatruck." "If you don't like it, Nephilim," came Magnus's voice, faintly, from the truck cab, "you're welcome to see if you can walk on the water.

  Cassandra Clare

  Wall, Team, Valentine

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.740, Simon and Schuster

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• Jace: "I guess we better move the trash. We can start with the Dumpster," looking unenthusiastic. Clary: "You'd rather face a ravening horde of demons, wouldn't you?" Jace: "At least they wouldn't be crawling with maggots. Well, not most of them, anyway. There was this one demon, once, that I tracked down to the sewers under Grand Central--" Clary: "Don't. I'm not really in the mood right now." Jace: "That's got to be the first time a girl's ever said that to me." Clary: "Stick with me and it won't be the last.

  Cassandra Clare

  Girl, Moving, Lasts

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• Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued; Olympia had bagels! We didn't have bagels in Arkansas. You could order vegetarian food all over town! It was so crazy to me - a place with so many vegetarians, the restaurants made special dishes for them?

  Beth Ditto

  Crazy, Order, Special

  Beth Ditto (2012). “Coal to Diamonds”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and them men drink too much and nobody finds the one but they keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh. there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. nobody ever finds the one. the city dumps fill the junkyards fill the madhouses fill the hospitals fill the graveyards fill nothing else fills.

  Charles Bukowski

  Wall, Fate, Men

  Charles Bukowski, “Alone With Everybody”

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• But I was wrong. I should have known it wasn't owver, couldn't be over quite easily. No sooner was Xavier out of sight than a little cylinder of paper fell from the top of my locker. As I unrolled it, I knew I'd see black calligraphy crawling across it like a spider. Dread settled around me like a fog as the words burned into my brain: The Lake of Fire awaits my lady

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Fire, Lakes, Sight

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• WHEN AUGUSTUS CAME OUT on the porch the blue pigs were eating a rattlesnake—not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over.

  Larry McMurtry

  War, Blue, Pigs

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Lonesome Dove: A Novel”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• She was crawling out from under the huge tour bus when he first caught sight of her. She was small, like a child.

  Christine Feehan

  Children, Sight, Firsts

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• But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Grandmother, Vegas, Knives

  Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.47, Vintage

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• crawling about the floor like half-dead November flies is one thing, and dancing reels another.

  Ethel Smyth

  Dance, Dancing, Half

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• It is better to go stumbling, and weeping, and crawling like a worm along the way of love, than to give up and choose some other way.

  Hannah Hurnard

  Giving Up, Way, Stumbling

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• Men had reached into the scrub and along its boundaries, had snatched what they could get and had gone away, uneasy in that vast indifferent peace; for a man was nothing, crawling ant-like among the myrtle bushes under the pines. Now they were gone, it was as though they had never been. The silence of the scrub was primordial. The wood-thrush crying across it might have been the first bird in the world-or the last.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Men, Gone Away, Silence

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• The artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word "Art," and everything is O.K. Rotting corpses with snails crawling over them are O.K.; kicking little girls in the head is O.K.; even a film like L'Age d'Or is O.K.

  George Orwell

  Girl, Art, Law

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.216, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I think of God I feel like an ant crawling into a computer.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Thinking, Ants, Computer

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• One feels like crawling on all fours after reading your work.

  Voltaire

  Work, Reading, Fours

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• I've never been on safari because I've got a phobia of bugs. I just don't want things crawling on me when I'm sleeping. It's a shame given my passion for big cats. But I really enjoy photography, so I'd love to photograph leopards in the wild some day.

  Jackie Collins

  Photography, Passion, Sleep

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• If I'm around spiders, my fear isn't so much the spider, but my fear is that I'm somewhere rustic and that spiders are crawling around. I must be in the woods.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Spiders, Woods, Rustic

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• Going from a short to a feature is like going from crawling to flying. It's a big jump, really. Everything triples - size of crew, budget, shooting days, the cast. Not to mention the stakes - as a first time feature filmmaker so much rides on this film.

  Aurora Guerrero

  Flying, Shooting, Firsts

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• "What a joke: Tiny living entities crawling on a little planet and are thinking, "I am Great". "

  Radhanath Swami

  Thinking, Tiny, Littles

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• The French are not rude. They just happen to hate you. But that is no reason to bypass this beautiful country, whose master chefs have a well-deserved worldwide reputation for trying to trick people into eating snails. Nobody is sure how this got started. Probably a couple of French master chefs were standing around one day, and they found a snail, and one of them said: 'I bet that if we called this something like `escargot,' tourists would eat it.' Then they had hearty laugh, because 'escargot' is the French word for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm.'

  Dave Barry

  Beautiful, Country, Couple

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.127, Ballantine Books

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• I sat on the piano bench next to my mother in church. Something happened before I set foot on this planet. I was crawling around inside of her. She was a church pianist. My dad was a brilliant singer. I was hearing it.

  Al Jarreau

  Mother, Dad, Piano

  "Jazz vocalist Al Jarreau". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 5, 2013.

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