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Quotes About Slammed

The flyscreen door slammed behind me. My feet dragged. I reached each arm into the jacket. Warm sleeves. Crumpled collar. Hands in pockets. Okay. I walked.
~ zusak markus ii
I slammed the book shut and and crowed, 'And that is why you don't kick the librarian off the investigation!
~ Jim C. Hines
the three first-year apprentices watched in awe as the two marksmen slammed arrow after arrow into the almost invisible targets. "Anytime before sunset would be fine," Will drawled.
~ John Flanagan
It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd opened your eyes wide enough.
~ Julia Ormond
Clent sat up with impressive if graceless promptness, snatched his wig from a bedknob, and slammed it on his head back to front. Only then did he go about the business of actually waking.
~ Frances Hardinge
Were you relieved, maybe just a little, when they lifted you up (you weighed almost nothing by then) and shoved you into the oven? Did it seem unanticipated but right, somehow - did it strike you as satisfying, as a fate finally realized - when they slammed the door behind you?
~ Michael Cunningham
The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face. They are cowards.
~ Christopher Monckton
I think that things like Twitter and the blogosphere are so instantaneously critical that I think it's actually created a bit of a culture of artistic fear to branch out too much because you don't want to be slammed.
~ Josh Groban
Gregor lifted the knife and slammed it down. The tops of the carrot rolled across the table, some hitting the floor. "What are you doing?" "I'm chopping carrots." "Gregor, they are carrots! not tree branches." "I fail to see the difference.
~ Karen Hawkins
He obviously wanted to leave on a snappy comeback, but couldn't think of one. I suppose he wasn't ever called on to produce them in the ordinary course of things. After a moment of struggle, he just scowled and stalked out. I'm delighted to report my repaired door slammed shut on his heels beautifully.
~ Naomi Novik
We froze. The night, the earth, the universe slammed on its brakes. Time sucked on a chloroform Popsicle.
~ Tom Robbins
The door to Jakes' office slammed against the wall, and Vivi barreled through the opening. "Turn this ship around right now.
~ Cheryl Sterling
Vinnie slammed his door shut, and Lula stuck
~ Janet Evanovich
Those one hundred and eighty seconds with Esben somehow threw me into a whirlwind. Either I get slammed to the ground by that force or I soar.
~ Jessica Park
Her expression suggested the kind of deeply private, strictly incommunicable anguish of someone who has just slammed the car door on her thumb.
~ Zoë Heller
There was a damp crack as the flesh and bones of the dead finally failed, and the gate slammed shut.
~ Rachel Caine
these being the heavy-bottomed small glasses known as shot glasses, as they made a sound strongly resembling a pistol shot when slammed on the table following a toast.
~ Diana Gabaldon
A trapdoor had slammed open at the edge of the arena, followed by another and another. Slowly, reluctantly, animals were forced through the gaps. Lions, tigers, bears. "Oh my!" said the Doctor, as the trapdoors slammed shut again.
~ Jacqueline Rayner
Vader let them close a bit, then slammed hard on the reverse thrusters, throwing him forward in his seat, and immediately reengaged the engines. The momentary stop had been enough. The escort streaked past and over him. He gave chase instantly, inverting the shuttle as he did.
~ Paul S. Kemp