Shoehorned In Quotes & Sayings

Any comedian who tells you how dark and dangerous they are, they're not dark and dangerous. — Patton Oswalt

Life's too short to be shoehorned into a box that isn't for you. — Lauren Mayberry

She floats upon the river of his thoughts. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Warriors fear surrender. They are proud and defiant. They will fight to the death for what they believe in. They will struggle to conquer. Love is not about conquest. The truth is a man can only find true love when he surrenders to it. When he opens his heart to the partner of his soul and says: 'here it is! the very essence of me! It is yours to nurture or destroy. — David Gemmell

Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into 'women's books' except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out. — Sherwood Smith

Actually, what that child needs, thinks Enigma, sniffing noisily, is a real good fuck. — Liane Moriarty

Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good. — Haruki Murakami

It [ME] is one of the most disabling diseases that I care for, far exceeding HIV disease except for the terminal stages. — Daniel L. Peterson

And every year the Pentagon bite of the federal dollar got bigger and bigger. In Reagan's eight years in office, military expenditure doubled from around $150 billion to $300 billion a year, until it represented nearly 30 percent of our overall annual budget and more than 6 percent of GDP. — Rachel Maddow

Without its changing shape or dimensions all of a lifetime's memories fit miraculously within it, perhaps revealing a mystery ... Memory was not something that overflowed or was shoehorned into the shape of an object; it was something that was distilled, transformed, with each new experience. — Carlos Fuentes

Sam was staring at Claire with about the same amazement as his brother had shown. Claire didn't seem to realize it, or else she was too preoccupied to think of it, but she was the second thunderbolt that had fallen on this long-hidebound household in as many days. First one of the hated race of doctors had been shoehorned in on them as the only thing that might get them out of an already nightmarish situation, and now this matter-of-fact slip of a girl had pushed into it of her own accord. They must have felt like the world was coming down around their ears. — Elisabeth Grace Foley

I feel that I'm an essayist and that my best work gets done in that form. I wanted to do a book where the essays could exist on their own terms. A book that was neither a book of essays that were shoehorned into a memoir, nor [one where] the essays had been published elsewhere first, [because] then they would kind of bear the marks of those publications. — Meghan Daum

My head hurts and my heart feels nothing but numb blankness. — Huntley Fitzpatrick

Matthias locked the cell door and hurried down the passage toward Nina, toward something more. — Leigh Bardugo

I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that; otherwise, you end up preaching down. You need to listen not so much to the audience but to the story itself. — Jerry Spinelli

Every sound reason is on the side of law and order in their insistence that the eternity of joy be reserved for the hereafter, and in their endeavor to subordinate the struggle against death and disease to the never-ceasing requirements of national and international security. — Herbert Marcuse

I'm a massive fan of David Lynch and 'Twin Peaks.' — Amanda Palmer

Writers survive on compliments. Money, they feel, is only a necessity for the mortal being. — Saru Singhal

there are some things better than winning like finishing with pride — Bemy Wells

Dancing was a big part of my life, but I would never consider myself a dancer. I adore singing, and music has always been a huge part of my life, but I also enjoy acting. — Vanessa Hudgens