Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

#russell

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #russell




Sawtooth slumps into his deck chair and stares up at the sky. It's a drunken sky, the stars hiccupping light. Great gusty clouds go spinning past the moon. The bright planets feel like pinpricks to Sawtooth's old eyes.


Karen Russell


#out-to-sea #home

There's something pitiable and terrifying about the unconscious bully. His crumpled nose and hat. ... This is the first true thing that Brauser and I have ever shared, this fear, besides dog-eared songbooks and cafeteria noodles. I wonder, briefly, if I could eat Brauser if it came to that. At this point, we have been alone on the glacier for fourteen minutes.


Karen Russell


#karen-russell #occurrence- #home

Could we betray our parents by going back to them?


Karen Russell


#karen-russell #st-lucys-home #home

She was still loping around on all fours, her fists blue-white from the strain. As if she were holding a secret tight to the ground. Sister Maria de la Guardia would sigh every time she saw her. "Caramba!" She'd sit down with Mirabella and pry her fingers apart. "You see?" she'd say softly, again and again. "What are you holding on to? Nothing, little one. Nothing.


Karen Russell


#karen-russell #st-lucys-home #home

The meta-physical creed, I shall maintain, is a mistaken outcome of the emotion, although this emotion, as colouring and informing all other thoughts and feelings, is the inspirer of whatever is best in Man.


Bertrand Russell


#inspirational

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.


Bertrand Russell


#bertrand #evidence #foolish #majority #opinion

May what lies ahead of this warrior or behind him never take from me what is inside of him, for it is mine.


Amy A. Bartol


#russell #intuition

What does my performance have to do with Russell Crowe's? Nothing. If I play Gladiator and we all play Gladiator with Ridley Scott in the same amount of time, maybe we have a chance to see who did it best.


Javier Bardem


#best #chance #crowe #did #does

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."


Bill Cosby


#brother #child #did #discovered #eggs

A Jack Russell terrier? My god. He'll burn you up. They never stop. A German shepherd, you can only go so many miles.


George Foreman


#german #go #god #jack #many






back to top