Peeking Quotes

• He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.

  Alice Walker

  Children, Men, Tree

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• Joy and truth both have a way
  of peeking through any dark curtain.

  Margarita Engle

  Dark, Joy, Way

  Margarita Engle (2009). “Tropical Secrets: Holocaust Refugees in Cuba”, p.73, Macmillan

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  You never know what's around the corner unless you peek. Hold someone's hand while you do it. You will feel less scared.

  Amy Poehler

  Inspirational, Fear, Hands

  Harvard University Class Day Commencement Address, delivered 26 May 2011

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• I became what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975. I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek. That was a long time ago, but it’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. Looking back now, I realize I have been peeking into that deserted alley for the last twenty-six years.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Wall, Winter, Past

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.14, Penguin

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• If I stand here, I can see the Little Red Haired girl when she comes out of her house... Of course, if she sees me peeking around this tree, she'll think I'm the dumbest person in the world... But if I don't peek around the tree, I'll never see her... Which means I probably AM the dumbest person in the world... which explains why I'm standing in a batch of poison oak.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Girl, Mean, Thinking

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• First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Funny, New Year, Drinking

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2011). “On Booze (New Directions Pearls)”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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• Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a persons face.

  Steve McCurry

  Photography, People, Soul

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• The sun was bobbing on the horizon, just peeking over. Its light shimmered on the sand behind you, making your body look like it was glowing … like it had a kind of aura.

  Lucy Christopher

  Light, Glowing, Horizon

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.44, Scholastic Inc.

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• You can show a guy sort of peeking over the wall, you can see a guy tunneling underneath, you can see a guy going through the front door. All of those, in cyber terms, are vulnerabilities, because it's not that you have to look for one hole of a specific type. It's the whole paradigm.

  Edward Snowden

  Wall, Doors, Guy

  "Exclusive: Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare". Interview with James Bamford and Tim De Chant, www.pbs.org. January 8, 2015.

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• What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone’s library is like peeking into their DNA.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Dna, Profound, Library

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• I dont think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while.

  John Gould

  Children, Food, Thinking

  John Gould (2015). “The House That Jacob Built”, p.124, Down East Books

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• The wish of peeking at women showering is also a kind of romance.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Romance, Wish, Kind

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• I love color. It must submit to me. And I love art. I kneel before it, and it must become mine. Everything around me glows with passion. Every day reveals a new red flower, glowing, scarlet red. Everyone around me carries them. Some wear them quietly hidden in their hearts. And they are like poppies just opening, of which one can see only here and there a hint of red petal peeking out from the green bud.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Art, Flower, Passion

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• It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Past, Amir, Kites

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.14, Penguin

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• Proud to steal her anything she sees, but you will wind up peeking through her key hole down upon your knees.

  Bob Dylan

  Keys, Wind, Low Self Esteem

  Song: She Belongs To Me, Album: Bringing It All Back Home, 1965

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• Only in an Orwellian [Barack] Obama world full of sprinkly fairy dust broken from atop his unicorn as he's peeking through a really pretty pink kaleidoscope would he ever see victory or safety for America or Israel in this treaty. This treaty will not bring peace. You don't reward terrorism. You kill it!

  Sarah Palin

  Israel, Dust, America

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I well recall my horror when I heard for the first time, of a journalist who had laid in a pair of what were then called bicycle pants and taken to golf; it was as if I had encountered a studhorse with his hair done up in frizzes, and pink bowknots peeking out of them. It seemed, in some vague way, ignominious, and even a bit indelicate.

  H. L. Mencken

  Taken, Golf, Hair

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• A painting is more than the sum of its parts,' he would tell me, and then go on to explain how the cow by itself is just a cow, and the meadow by itself is just grass and flowers, and the sun peeking through the trees is just a beam of light, but put them all together and you've got magic.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Flower, Light, Tree

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.34, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I kept my eyes open on the ride home. Peeking over Lucas's shoulder, i watched the scenery fly by-and it was exhilarating, not frightening. I trusted him. I had since that first night, when i let him drive me home.

  Tammara Webber

  Home, Eye, Night

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• My dad's a prominent theatre director in Toronto, so I grew up in that world, directing and producing theater since I was a teenager. I always loved movies but they seemed too complicated until I got a job as an assistant on a movie-of-the-week and the technical process became demystified, like peeking behind a magician's curtain. Not long after that I switched to movies and never looked back.

  Ed Gass-Donnelly

  Jobs, Dad, Teenager

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.

  Cyril Connolly

  Lamps, Way, Common

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• Stopping at her house is a neighbor boy with evil on his mind, cause he's been peeking in Angie's room at night through her window blind.

  Helen Reddy

  Boys, Night, Social Taboos

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• But even more so, it reminded me that this was all really happening. Stanford. The end of the summer. The beginning of my real life. It was no longer just creeping up, peeking over the horizon, but instead lingering in plain sight.

  Sarah Dessen

  Summer, Real, Sight

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.204, Penguin

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• Another false philosophy that appeals to the Mr. Hyde side of our natures is that peeking into pornography is harmless. This is a terrible deception. Pornography is as addictive as cocaine or any illegal drug.

  James E. Faust

  Philosophy, Addiction, Drug

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• That's cool." Hale nodded, unfazed. "But just so you know, that"---he pointed to the piece of metal peeking out from behind the stage---"is a Hurst 5,000 PSI hydraulic spreader-cutter, more commonly know as the Jaws of Life." "So?" "So I'm not a normal boy.

  Ally Carter

  Boys, Pieces, Normal

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