Quotes About Pointed

His face was all sharp angles, thin and pointed, like something Pythagoras had doodled on the corner of his scroll before getting on with his theorem.

Her words held all the pointed innuendo that elderly ladies are able to achieve with the minimum of actual statement.

Parents really just need support and not to be blamed and not to have fingers pointed at them.

My go-to shoes for red-carpet events are usually always black, but I mix between my pointed stilettos and platform heels.

They sped by a pack of sea lions lounging on the docks, and she swore she saw an old homeless guy sitting among them. From across the water the old man pointed a bony finger at Percy and mouthed something like 'Don't even think about it.' Did you see that? Hazel asked. Percy's face was red in the sunset. Yeah. I've been here before. I...I don't know. I think I was looking for my girlfriend. Annabeth, Frank said. You mean, on your way to Camp Jupiter? Percy frowned. No. Before that.

There! Apollo pointed. Long Island, dead ahead. Let's slow down, dear. 'Dead' is only an expression.

To look for solace is to learn to ask fiercer and more exquisitely pointed questions, questions that reshape our identities and our bodies and our relation to others.

somewhere deep inside, her sister understood dimly that her beauty was a weapon. A loaded gun, with the barrel pointed at her own head.

Cow," Tanith muttered, and that was it, the floodgates opened, and Stephanie doubled over with laughter that echoed throughout the warehouse. Tanith pointed at Stephanie and backed away. "Skulduggery, she's not being professional!

beside the shells. There were three shells. The man pointed to the same shell that

You're taking umbrage like a tart whose lack of chastity has been pointed out to her.

Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.

bradawl. It was just a blunt steel spike set into a handle.

I'm ruined," she confided miserably. "Everyone hates me." "I don't," Caleb pointed out. Lily was not consoled. "You're a man," she retorted, "and that doesn't count." Caleb arched his eyebrows at that but said nothing.

All guns are the same to me—dark brown or black." He pointed to the sight again. "No," she said. "I have never seen a gun like that in his possession." She pointed dramatically to the sight.

Their faces I thought were knives. The way they pointed them at me. And waited. A hunter is someone who listens. So hard to his prey it pulls the weapon. Out of his hand and impales. Itself.

Whenever Ida pointed celery at him, she meant business.

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness. ( On the Bravery of the English Common Soldiers )

Lakshmi had assured me, when I pointed it out, that the insufferability of clubs was widely acknowledged. Why else did I think everyone was on drugs the whole time? My reluctance to talk to the guy you had to talk to to get the drugs was exceeded only by my mistrust of the drugs themselves. If I messed up my brain, what else did I have? Why wasn't Lakshmi scared?

Kaden pointed upstairs. "I am not tired either. Let us converse as well. I know many glorious lies of battle.

Fine dressing could not be suppressed despite ever-renewed sumptuary laws which tried especially and repeatedly to outlaw the pointed shoes.

I want to talk about privacy, the quality of the information you receive, whether it's neutral or commercial or pointed, bringing consciousness to the lack of neutrality in the algorithms.

George Washington once wrote that leading by conviction gave him "a consolation within that no earthly efforts can deprive me of." He continued: "The arrows of malevolence, however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me.