logo

Quotes About Stagger

Dakota's head was stuck in his toga. He staggered around olike a Kool-Aid-stained ghost. Um, Percy said, should I wear my bed sheets?
~ Rick Riordan
Light staggers through the trees. Every moment is filled with other moments.
~ Richard Jackson
A new creation, an innovation that will be the sensation of the nation for the duration, an inspiration that will require no demonstration for universal acclimation, according to my intimation, but will receive an ovation to stagger the imagination.
~ Robert Bloch
There is a frozen moment after a really good shot to the face. A moment of shock, or paralysis where all you can do is blink.
~ Laurell K. Hamilton
In the first hour of the new day, in the cold, strong wind that already reaches our native shores, yes, in this one moment of eternally returning regret I realise: what staggers us, over and over again, is the morning splendour of departure!
~ Annemarie Schwarzenbach
It had started to worry me that if I wasn't careful my meekness could become a habit, a tic, something hardwired that my mannerisms would continue to express throughout my life regardless of my efforts - the way a drunk who, though in the wagon, still staggers and slurs like a drunk.
~ Lorrie Moore
In this respect the frailty of the human mind is surely proved: even when it seems to follow the way, it limps and staggers. Yet the fact remains that some seed of political order has been implanted in all men. And this is ample proof that in the arrangement of this life no man is without the light of reason.
~ John Calvin
I very rarely use a credit card, but I do if I know I have big bills coming and I need to stagger payment.
~ Andrea McLean
She did not say goodbye. She was incapable, and after a few more minutes at his side, she was able to tear herself from the ground. It amazes me what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down their faces and they stagger on, coughing and searching, and finding.
~ Markus Zusak
The light is buried under chains and noisesin impudent challenge of rootless science.Through the suburbs sleepless people stagger,as though just delivered from a shipwreck of blood.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
Well, I may get drunk, the Widow admitted, but I don't stagger. Sometimes I fall down. But I don't stagger.
~ Nelson Algren
so this desertion was nothing more than the last rebellion of the doomed, like the lambs that stagger back on their feet after their throats have been cut. In
~ Laila Lalami
gasps a little, blinks his eyes three or four times and indulges in a convulsive shiver
~ Gustavo Arellano
A mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.
~ Walt Whitman
did you often stagger into the middle of busy intersections with your gummy eyes and make comical, drunken attempts to direct traffic?
~ Charles Portis
Sometimes I wear sunglasses even in the house. Sometimes at the stadium I hold my hand up and look at it and I swear I can see right through it. Like that thing with the flashlight and your hand.' 'Hands seem to be sort of a theme to this call, thus far.' 'On the way in from the lot off the street here I saw a pedestrian in a pith helmet stagger and like claw at the air and pitch forward onto his face. Another Phoenician felled by the heat I think to myself
~ David Foster Wallace
Europe, the land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts. The land where the economy gets to stagger all over the continent.
~ Núria Añó
Is that what you want? To stagger around the afterlife blind and eye-fucked?
~ Unknown
They grope in the darkness without light; He makes them stagger like drunkards.
~ Job 12:25
The earth staggers like a drunkard and sways like a shack. Earthís rebellion weighs it down, and it falls, never to rise again.
~ Isaiah 24:20
And they will drink and stagger and go out of their minds, because of the sword that I will send among them.”
~ Jeremiah 25:16
People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.
~ Amos 8:12