Handful Quotes - Page 8

• The seals stupidly dive off rocks into swirling black water, barking mindlessly. The zookeepers feed them dead fish. A crowd gathers around the tank, mostly adults, a few accompanied by children. On the seals' tank a plaque warns: COINS CAN KILL——IF SWALLOWED, COINS CAN LODGE IN AN ANIMAL'S STOMACH AND CAUSE ULCERS, INFECTIONS AND DEATH. DO NOT THROW COINS IN THE POOL. So what do I do? Toss a handful of change into the tank when none of the zookeepers are watching. It's not the seals I hate——it's the audience's enjoyment of them that bothers me.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Children, Hate, Animal

  Bret Easton Ellis (2014). “American Psycho: Picador Classic”, p.240, Pan Macmillan

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• The older you get, the more you realize you need a handful of good, close, tight friends.

  Nicole Richie

  Needs, Realizing

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• Any messages for me?" Usually I got one or two, but mostly people who wanted my help preferred to talk in person. "Yes. Hold on." She pulled out a handful of pink tickets and recited from memory, without checking the paper. "Seven forty-two a.m., Mr. Gasparian: I curse you. I curse your arms so they wither and die and fall off your body. I curse your eyeballs to explode. I curse your feet to swell until blue. I curse your spine to crack. I curse you. I curse you. I curse you.

  Ilona Andrews

  Memories, Fall, Blue

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Bleeds”, p.38, Penguin

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• I noticed the plants growing around me. Tall with leaves like arrowheads. Blossoms with three white petals. I knelt down in the water, my fingers digging into the soft mud, and I pulled up handfuls of the roots. Small, bluish tubers that don’t look like much but boiled or baked are as good as any potato. “Katniss,” I said aloud. It’s the plant I was named for. And I heard my father’s voice joking, “As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.

  Suzanne Collins

  Father, Plants Growing, Voice

  Suzanne Collins (2009). "Los juegos del hambre", p.47, Scholastic Inc.

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• El amor es un puñado de semillas, el matrimonio el jardín, y al igual que tus jardines, Paula, el matrimonio requiere un compromiso total, trabajo duro y mucho amor y cuidado. Sé implacable con las malas hierbas. Sácalas antes de que arraiguen. Aporta a tu matrimonio la misma dedicación que dedicas a tus jardines y todo irá bien. Recuerda que un matrimonio también tiene que reponerse constantemente si quieres que florezca.

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Love, Weed, Hard Work

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• Life was going on, and no one but a handful of people cared if I lived or died.

  Kim Harrison

  People, Died, Ifs

  Kim Harrison (2011). “Pale Demon”, p.37, HarperCollins UK

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• a handful of crumpled stars

  Margaret Atwood

  Estrellas

  Margaret Atwood (2016). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.447, Random House

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• Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many, Mr. Jiabao. A handful of men in this country have trained the remaining 99.9 percent—as strong, as talented, as inteligent in every way—to exist in perpetual servitude; a servitude so strong that you can put the key of his emancipation in a man's hands and he will throw it back at you with a curse.

  Aravind Adiga

  País, Fuerte, Hombres

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.105, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Pero mañana amanecerá como me la imagino, descalza y despeinada, de pie frente a mi ventana con uno de los frágiles vestidos de algodón de los pobres. Me mirará con sus delgados brazos extendidos, ofreciéndome un puñado de cantos de pájaros y una pequeña taza de luz.

  Billy Collins

  Light, Offering, Bird

  Billy Collins (2012). "Quitarse la ropa de Emily Dickinson", p.70, Pan Macmillan.

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• Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world.

  Alexis Arguello

  Sports, Air, People

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• Raising five boys is a handful, trust me.

  Barbara Bush

  Boys, Trust Me, Five

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• No siento falta de esperanza. Es sólo decepción porque después de todos estos años seguimos luchando en guerras sin sentido por un puñado de personas.

  Geezer Butler

  Disappointment, War, Fighting

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• Urban Renewal' fue muy dulce porque he sido -injustamente, diría yo- colocado en medio del camino por un puñado de canciones. Llegó en un buen momento para mí, porque te dan un poco de caña y, a medida que envejeces, lo aceptas mejor y te das cuenta de por qué ocurre.

  Phil Collins

  Song, Sweet, Urban Renewal

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• I used to do the beat box. A friend of mine, he was the rapper and after, we'd be doing a block party or something or a house party, and he's gettin' all the attention and I'd end up with a handful of spit, you know, from doing the beats.

  DMX

  Block, Party, Rapper

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A handful of older, romantic leading men, like Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, and Robert Redford are still landing parts.

  Charles Dance

  Romantic, Men, Landing

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• Then my mother shocked me. She said, " All those things that you want from your relationship, Liz? I have always wanted those things too." [She] showed me the handful of bullets she'd had to bite over the decades in order to stay happily married (and she was happily married...) to my father. "You have to understand how little I was raised to expect that I desired in life, honey. Remember- I come from a different time and place... and you have to understand how much I love your father.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Mother, Father, Order

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• Puede que la historia universal sea la historia de las diferentes entonaciones que se dan a un puñado de metáforas.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Different, May, Metaphor

  Jorge Luis Borges (1964). “Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings”, p.192, New Directions Publishing

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• Once upon a time there was a boy who lived in a house across the field from a girl who no longer exists. They made up a thousand games. She was Queen and he was King. In the autumn light, her hair shone like a crown. They collected the world in small handfuls. When the sky grew dark they parted with leaves in their hair.

  Nicole Krauss

  Girl, Kings, Queens

  "The History of Love". Book by Nicole Krauss (p.9), 2005.

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• Since mankind's dawn, a handful of oppressors have accepted the responsibility over our lives that we should have accepted for ourselves. By doing so, they took our power. By doing nothing, we gave it away. We've seen where their way leads, through camps and wars, towards the slaughterhouse.

  Alan Moore

  War, Responsibility, Power

  "V for Vendetta". Book by Alan Moore, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2008.

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• It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.

  Suzanne Collins

  Catching On, Catching Fire, Berries

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.22, Scholastic Inc.

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• Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Noble, Deeds, Chaos

  Scott Westerfeld, Keith Thompson (2009). “Leviathan”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort /to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires /and expires, too soon, too soon /before life itself

  Joseph Conrad

  Amor, Corazón, Hombres

  "Youth" (1902)

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• I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in these things. It was with some amazement that I realized I was one of the few people in the world who really believed in these things without going around making a dull middle class philosophy out of it. I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Stars, Philosophy

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• And everywhere, infinite options, infinite possibilities. An infinity, and at the same time, zero. We try to scoop it all up in our hands, and what we get is a handful of zero. That's the city

  Haruki Murakami

  Zero, Hands, Cities

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “The Elephant Vanishes”, p.238, Random House

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• I stared up at the ebbing quarter moon and the stars scattered like a handful of salt across the faraway sky.

  Billy Collins

  Stars, Moon, Sky

  Billy Collins (2012). “Ballistics”, p.81, Pan Macmillan

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