Quotes About Hinges

The Berg pitched and Thomas held on to a bar in the wall as the ship lowered to the ground. The ramp door started cranking open with the squeal of hinges

It has been said that the gate of history turns on small hinges, and so do people's lives. The choices we make determine our destiny.

The shared work calendar is one of the most destructive inventions of modern times. So much orbits around it, so much hinges on it, and so much is wrong because of it.

The hinges screamed like a wounded animal.

I do shop online! But I'm shopping online mostly in the home categories - One Kings Lane and Gilt. At a lot of architectural websites, I buy a lot of hardware for cabinetry like hinges and things like that from England. So, you know, for me, I shop at Net-A-Porter, but I don't really shop that much for clothing online.

Great doors of opportunity swing on the tiny hinges of obedience." —IKE REIGHARD

A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.

In this transparency, the footprints of the little birds spoke with a muffled voice. What they spoke of was entirely without significance, or else something capable of lifting a life off its hinges: there was no way of knowing.

The door to safety swings on the hinges of common sense.

Our very long-term prospective hinges on making the best possible wine we can.

Task finished, she sat a few minutes longer, very quietly. Then she sheepishly opened the outhouse door, cursing the squeaking hinges as she stuck her head out. She saw nothing, so she took a careful step outside. She heard a hiss and snarl and saw the cat lurking around the shed, twenty feet away. She retreated, slamming the door. "Shit," she said aloud. "Shit, shit, shit!" So

Proof of the 'hysterical strength' phenomenon is still hearsay, mostly because it's impossible to recreate those conditions in a lab. That said, try turning a doorknob when the bass drops on 'Skyfall' without ripping that door clean off of its hinges.

Not to oversimplify what football coaches do, but their success or failure hinges on concepts that aren't foreign to any coach.

Martin Luther King Jr. stated, "If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values that all reality hinges

When people used to call me a political writer, it was kind of confusing because I was always much more interested in the social end of things which hinges on the political, but it isn't really part of it.

There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip through the hinges where you've hung it so careful.

There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful.

I get to the back of the house, I damn near tear the door off the hinges. It isn't an act of fury, fury isn't part of it anymore. It's more deliberate than fury yet more instinctive than deliberation.

As a small country, both in size and population, our future hinges on the quality of our people.

There's nothing like a song about lost love to remind you how everything precious can slip from the hinges where you've hung it so careful.

open, hinges broken, wood shards raining all around

Still, despite all our noise, this universe hinges on a melody, that's the dismal truth of it. Oh, we can propagandize all we wish, it doesn't change the fabric of things. This universe was not made for the fallen, only the redeemed.

Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.

She tastes like nectar and salt. Nectar and salt and apples. Pollen and stars and hinges. She tastes like fairy tales. Swan maiden at midnight. Cream on the tip of a fox's tongue. She tastes like hope.