Quotes About Plucked

He held happiness in his hand easy as if he'd just, I don't know, plucked a blade of grass from the ground.

So, timely you came, and well you chose, You came when most needed, my winter rose. From the snow I pluck you, and fondly press Your leaves 'twixt the leaves of my leaflessness.

Sometimes it seems President Obama lives in a parallel universe where facts are floating around to be plucked out of suspended animation. Never more so than on the effects of the Affordable Care Act.

This snowy-haired dreamer plucked out of the soot.

The moment her hymen was plucked from her body in the wilderness, Her soul was taken from sanity.

Mr. Disney, we are returning your Duck. Feathers plucked and well-roasted. Look inside, you can see the handwriting on the wall, our hands still writing on the wall: Donald, Go Home!

The Mouser glared at the old man where he sat perched on the stool like some ungainly plucked foul.

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

It left a tuft of wool behind, caught on the matted grasses. I plucked it, and held it to my nose. It had that spicy scent of Keir's. I twirled it in my fingers, and smiled when I realized that Keir smelled like a goat.

I was discovered out of nowhere. I didn't have family that was in the industry. I didn't know anyone in L.A.; I didn't have any reason to have been discovered. Nowadays, you have YouTube, and people are scouting more, but I really was plucked out of obscurity.

By grace (that is to say, by favor) we are plucked out of Adam, the ground of all evil, and grafted in Christ, the root of all goodness.28 You are chosen for Christ's sake to the inheritance of eternal life.29

We boast about our individuality and hold up our independence like a plucked bird bragging that now without the weight of all those feathers it will be able to soar higher than its fellows.

Weep no more, lady, weep no more, Thy sorrow is in vain, For violets plucked, the sweetest showers Will ne'er make grow again.

He bent and plucked a tooth, a molar, from the dirt.

Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose — easily trimmed off when once plucked. Flirtation is like the slime on water-plants, making them hard to handle, and when caught, only to be cherished in slimy waters.

Roza plucked the cherry from the top of her sundae, dangled it in front of Finn. "You see bee girl.

I'm really drawn to adventure, and characters being plucked from normal life and sent on extraordinary adventures.

But, mind you, it's like this; while you live your life, you are in some way an organic whole with all life. But once you start the mental life you pluck the apple. You've severed the connection between the apple and the tree: the organic connection. And if you've got nothing in your life but the mental life, then you yourself are a plucked apple...you've fallen off the tree.

I understood why I'd been chosen. Why I'd been plucked out of the grim and struggle. I'd always been at war.

Well, you're speaking to the only man in Scotland who has a terrible cockstand at sight of a plucked chicken." I spluttered in my brandy and

The whole restaurant was really about duck, the fact that you passed the tiny kitchen on the way to the tables and the chefs were knee-deep in ducks in there, raw ducks getting plucked, roasted ducks, fried duck legs, ducks cooked six ways from Sunday, the fact that what about that dish they had where the duck was served in a sea of green olives, just like a sea, like two hundred olives at least.

How can the moon be scooped from the water's surface, or flowers be plucked from the void?

when the heartstrings, which contentment has silenced, like a harp laid by, yearn to be plucked and sounded again by some hand, however rough, even if it should break them;

her newly coiffed hair now jutting from her head like feathers on a badly plucked chicken.