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Quotes About Spears

We sat on the verandah drinking beer before we left, the hotel dark behind us. The moonlight was so strong we could see the grains of white sand glittering individually where it had been flung across the tarmac by the ox-wagon wheels. The heavy-hanging, pointed leaves of the gum-trees shone like tiny spears. I
~ Doris Lessing
But there are other faculty here on campus who are not disposed to see notable scholarship ignored; and let it be known that, in the darkened, blood-strewn caverns of our offices, we are hewing our textbooks and keyboards into spears.
~ Julie Schumacher
I think Elvis is the sexiest man to ever walk the earth, I love him.
~ Britney Spears
Now there were stars overhead, hanging like frozen spears of light, stabbing the night sky.
~ Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Let's live suddenly without thinking. Let's live like the light that kills. And let's as silence, because Whirl's after all: (after me) love, and after you. I occasionally feel vague how vague I don't know tenuous Now - spears and The Then - arrows making do our mouths, something red, something tall.
~ E.E. Cummings
enlisted among the Moguls, or they were massacred on the spot by the troops, who, with pointed spears and bended bows, had formed a circle round the captive multitude.
~ Edward Gibbon
The main courtyard was filled with warriors - mermen with fish tails from the waist down and human bodies from the waist up, except their skin was blue, which I'd never known before.Some were tending the wounded. Some were sharpening spears and swords. One passed us, swimming in a hurry. His eyes were bright green, like that stuff they put in glo-sticks, and his teeth were shark teeth. They don't show you stuff like that in The Little Mermaid.
~ Rick Riordan
No more Lastrygonians." Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. "Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep.
~ Rick Riordan
Rest well. And eat well tonight. In the morning, eat nothing. It is not good to dance the spears with a full stomach.
~ Robert Jordan
The Lord will settle international disputes. All the nations will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. All wars will stop, and military training will come to an end.
~ Jerry B. Jenkins
I think that's enough spears," I said, awkward. "There will never be enough," Shardas said. "Never enough to ensure that Velika is brought safely home." A River of Molten Rock Leontes and Shardas had discussed using an illusion to disguise the rescue party as local dragons.
~ Jessica Day George
had to be helped to my bed when he came home looking for all the world like an aging Britney Spears, only better dressed
~ Ann B. Ross
The Muslims won a decisive victory; Tabari notes that "the cavalry commander would corner a group of them with the spears of his men; having collected them, they would kill them. On the day of al-Firad, one hundred thousand men were slain in the battle and the pursuit.
~ Robert Spencer
In prison, inmates sometimes use Cheetos and grape juice as makeup. I wouldn't use that beauty regimen around Britney Spears - she might lick your face off!
~ Joel McHale
You don't know how I marvel at your ability to absorb quickly and then turn about, rain down the spears, nail it, penetrate it, envelop it with your intellect.
~ Anais Nin
Someone once told me that the '…Baby One More Time' video should be me as a superhero fighting a giant robot monster.
~ Britney Spears
Many of our tribe went to the cliff each night to count the number killed during the day. They counted the dead otter and thought of the beads and other things that each pelt meant. But I never went to the cove and whenever I saw the hunters with their long spears skimming over the water, I was angry, for these animals were my friends. It was fun to see them playing or sunning themselves among the kelp. It more fun than the thought of beads to wear around my neck.
~ Scott O'Dell
You are free now to move forward to meet Hrothgar, in helmets and armour, but shields must stay here and spears be stacked until the outcome of the audience is clear.
~ Seamus Heaney
King Dan sat on his stallion fierce Swords did slice and spears did pierce But in a tree upon the field Perched a small, keen-eyed blackbird And the blackbird did not sing No, the blackbird did not sing
~ Shannon Hale
outside her mother's old bedroom, wielding spiky spears and magic staffs. They nodded to her as she opened the door. "Remember," said one, "never touch the mirror." "I remember," she said. The room was
~ Shannon Hale
In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that - oh, who cares?
~ Amy Poehler
The answer was again in the affirmative, so arrangements were made to bring 180 ladies out of the Palace. Sun Tzu divided them into two companies, and placed one of the King's favourite concubines at the head of each. He then bade them all take spears in their hands, and addressed them thus: "I presume you know the difference between front and back, right hand and left hand?
~ Sun Tzu
The answer was again in the affirmative, so arrangements were made to bring 180 ladies out of the Palace. Sun Tzu divided them into two companies, and placed one of the King's favorite concubines at the head of each. He then bade them all take spears in their hands, and addressed them thus: "I presume you know the difference between front and back, right hand and left hand?
~ Sun Tzu
So up onto the ramparts they went, holding hoes and brooms like they were spears. You don't have to do anything, Faustinus told them, just stand there, give the impression there's somebody home. Amazingly, it worked. The enemy stopped and drew up three hundred yards from the wall, sent out scouts to ride up and down and take a good look. Which they were still doing.
~ K.J. Parker