Worn Quotes - Page 5

• Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away and other things begin to emerge and you take way bigger risks.

  Lorne Michaels

  People, Risk, Nerves

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• We live in freedom because every generation has produced patriots willing to serve a cause greater than themselves. Those who serve today are taking their rightful place among the greatest generations that have worn our nation's uniform.

  George W. Bush

  Generations, Uniforms, Causes

  Fort Bragg Speech, www.nbcnews.com. 2005.

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• It has been estimated that even in the absence of net investment, the mere substitution of modern machinery for worn-out equipment in the United States would cause an annual productivity increase of approximately 1.5 percent.

  Paul A. Baran

  Causes, United States, Investment

  Paul A. Baran (1968). “Political Econ of Growth”, p.88, NYU Press

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• I have this old worn-out, skintight T-shirt that I love. That's sexy.

  Liz Vassey

  Sexy, T Shirt, Shirts

  "Liz Vassey: Analyze This". Interview with Elizabeth Sanchez, www.mensfitness.com.

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• I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of the Sears and Roebuck catalog. The story that I bought it on the installment plan is untrue, the invention of a Hollywood press agent. Local color. I paid cash, $8, money I had saved as a hired hand on my uncle Calvin's farm, baling and stacking hay. Prairie hay, used as feed for the cattle in winter. It was mean work for a wiry boy, but ambition made me strong.

  Gene Autry

  Strong, Uncles, Ambition

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• I really cannot understand the point of what you're saying. Really,' said Clotilde, looking at her. 'What a very extraordinary person you are. What sort of a woman are you? Why are you talking like this? Who are you?' Miss Marple pulled down the mass of pink wool that encircled her head, a pink wool scarf of the same kind that she had once worn in the West Indies. 'One of my names,' she said, 'is Nemesis.' 'Nemesis? And what does that mean?' 'I think you know,' said Miss Marple. 'You are a very well educated woman. Nemesis is long delayed sometimes, but it comes in the end.

  Agatha Christie

  Mean, Thinking, West Indies

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• I have never looked into my sister's eyes. I have never bathed alone. I have never stood in the grass at night and raised my arms to the beguiling moon. I’ve never used an airplane bathroom. Or worn a hat. Or been kissed like that. I’ve never driven a car. Or slept through the night. Never a private talk. Or a solo walk. I’ve never climbed a tree. Or faded into a crowd. So many things I’ve never done, but oh, how I’ve been loved. And, if such things were to be, I’d live a thousand lives as me, to be loved so exponentially.

  Lori Lansens

  Airplane, Eye, Moon

  Lori Lansens (2009). “The Girls”, p.1, Vintage Canada

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• You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.

  Saint Augustine

  Wings, People, Research

  Saint Augustine (1997). “The Confessions”, p.199

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• I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Mercy, Fine, Tempting

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.155, Hamilton Books

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• When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Order, Confusion, Retreat

  Rita Mae Brown (2017). “Six of One”, p.100, Bantam

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• ... and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown.

  Dean Koontz

  Crowns, Bitterness

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• Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or what is years?) ago: old -worn-out nows. The future happens, but it is always shaped from a series of nows.

  Kij Johnson

  Years, Waiting, Months

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• Houses, like people, are apt to become rather eccentric if left too much on their own; this house was the architectural equivalent of an old gentleman in a worn dressing-gown and torn slippers, who got up and went to bed at odd times of day, and who kept up a continual conversation with friends no one else could see.

  Susanna Clarke

  People, House, Gentleman

  Susanna Clarke (2005). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.488, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I don't like this." "I know you don't, my little spaetzel. But I am too worn out to run from both the police and your murderous twin, and Damian's looking peaky, plus Christian did apologize for trying to kill us earlier." "I wasn't talking about that. It's your lamentable habit of using completely unsuitable love names for me that gives me grief," Adrian groused. "I am not a lambypie, nor am I a spaetzel.

  Katie MacAlister

  Christian, Running, Grief

  Katie MacAlister (2008). “Sex, Lies and Vampires (Dark Ones Book Three)”, p.271, Hachette UK

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• Not a ray is dimmed, not an atom worn; nature's oldest force is as good as new.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Rays, Atoms

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• I decided the moment I graduated from college that I would never wear blue jeans again. And I have never worn blue jeans again.

  Whit Stillman

  College, Blue, Jeans

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• I'm really interested in the idea of anomynity and familiarity. And sunglasses, you know, are so indicatitve of that. I mean, they're worn by some people to hide themselves. But they're also a fashion statement, meant to be noticed. So there's a dichotomy there.

  Sarah Dessen

  Fashion, Mean, Ideas

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• There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.

  Martin Heidegger

  Empty, Remains, Empty Words

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• Adrian opened his mouth, undoubtedly ready with some inappropriate and mocking comment. Lissa gave him a sharp headshake that kept him quiet. "Aren't there any, I don't know, sleeveless options?" The saleswoman's eyes widened. "No one has ever worn straps to a funeral. It wouldn't be right." "What about shorts?" asked Adrian. "Are they okay if they're with a tie? Because that's what I was gonna go with." The woman looked horrified.

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Ties, Funeral

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Last Sacrifice: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.16, Penguin

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• For as long as I could remember, he had never worn a single piece of clothing that could be considered casual. Khaki shorts and golf shirts, to Umberto, were the garments of men who have no virtues left, not even shame.

  Anne Fortier

  Golf, Men, Long

  Anne Fortier (2010). “Juliet: A Novel”, p.6, Ballantine Books

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• There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Nice, Cotton, Preppy

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• Blue Jeans? They should be worn by farm girls milking cows!

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Girl, Blue, Jeans

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• Once, when I'd needed to meet Daniel to deliver a warning from Jeremy, I'd worn two-inch heels and had quite enjoyed the sensation of talking down to Daniel, until he told me how sexy I looked. Since then he'd never seen me in anything but my oldest, grubbiest sneakers.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Sexy, Talking, Sneakers

  Kelley Armstrong (2012). “Werewolves: Book One: Bitten, Stolen and Beginnings”, p.543, Vintage Canada

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• All-devouring time, envious age,
  Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees,
  Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die.

  Ovid

  Time, Age, Degrees

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• Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sweet thing to give a lady. But it is always roses, always red, and always perfect hothouse blooms when they can come by them.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Sweet, Flower, Book

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