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Quotes About Piercing

On Telegraph, she stopped him in front of Walgreens, put the sack into his hands, a finger to her lips. "I'll come back." He was left to contemplate the sidewalk, full of listless earring vendors ready with their piercing guns.
~ Jonathan Lethem
The problem of the hero is to pierce himself (and therewith his world) precisely through that point; to shatter and annihilate that key knot of his limited existence.
~ Joseph Campbell
Skutki sza?u, Albo mo?e kuglarstwo? - S? kosztowne bronie, Których ostrze przenika i a? w duszy tonie; Przecie? widomie nie uszkodz? cia?u. Tak? broni? po dwakro? zosta?em przebity... (po pauzie z u?miechem) Tak? broni? za ?ycia s? oczy kobiéty, (ponuro) A po ?mierci grzesznika cierpi?cego skrucha!
~ Adam Mickiewicz
A fog of despair so pervaded the ghetto that the smallest gesture of rebellion could seem like a bold, piercing light. Bad, said with a fond expression, was almost always a compliment.
~ Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
To read as if your life depended on it would mean to let into your reading your beliefs, the swirl of your dreamlife, the physical sensations of your ordinary carnal life; and simultaneously, to allow what you're reading to pierce routines, safe and impermeable, in which ordinary carnal life is tracked, charted, channeled. Then, what of the right answers, the so-called multiple-choice examination sheet with the number 2 pencil to mark one choice and one choice only?
~ Adrienne Rich
Since I had peeped over the edge myself, I understand better the meaning of his stare, that could not see the flame of the candle, but was wide enough to embrace the whole universe, piercing enough to penetrate all the hearts that beat in the darkness.
~ Joseph Conrad
Since I had peeped over the edge myself, I understand better the meaning of his stare, that could not see the flame of the candle, but was wide enough to embrace the whole universe, piercing enough to penetrate all the hearts that beat in the darkness. He had summed it up - he had judged. The horror!
~ Joseph Conrad
I understand better the meaning of his stare, that could not see the flame of the candle, but was wide enough to embrace the whole universe, piercing enough to penetrate all the hearts that beat in the darkness.
~ Joseph Conrad
se diría que capaces de hacer caer sobre alguien una mirada tan cortante y pesada como un hacha.
~ Joseph Conrad
I don't want to pierce anything. I think it's outdated. Belly rings and all are, like, old.
~ Britney Spears
So you might say, 'Why do you end up making theatre in a world in which there is already too much of that? Creating layer upon layer of artifice?' Perhaps the function is to pierce through that cloud and show reality - so the function of art is to make things - to show: 'Hang on, this is real.'
~ Simon McBurney
I went to the city, behind my mom's back, and got my belly button pierced.
~ Angelina Pivarnick
I didn't even have pierced ears. They put four holes in each ear, and, weirdly, that hurt the most.
~ Rooney Mara
I've determined my style - I like to call it elegant funk. You'll see me in some really beautiful gowns but I'll still have my septum piercing in.
~ KiKi Layne
Usually when you get your belly button pierced, you're supposed to get the hoop and you're supposed to heal around it. I basically got the gem right away - you're not supposed to do that.
~ Angelina Pivarnick
Her eyes ate me.
~ Raymond Chandler
A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing with clumsy force, but never piercing.
~ Magha
Man screams from the depths of his soul; the whole era becomes a single, piercing shriek. Art also screams, into the deep darkness, screams for help, screams for the spirit. This is Expressionism.
~ Hermann Bahr
I would almost plead for a pinprick of salvation, to pierce the burden, the damned skin of words wrapped around me.
~ David Grossman
It was cold out there, bitter, biting, cutting, piercing, hyperborean, marmoreal cold, and there were all these Minnesotans running around outdoors, happy as lambs in the spring.
~ Charles Kuralt
For every moment of suffering, Others will arriveThat will instead pierce you with joy.
~ Scott Hastie
His ears were so littered with studs, safety pins and dangling razor blades that if he were to stand between two strong magnets his face would peel off.
~ Reed Farrel Coleman
If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.
~ Zhuangzi
deep-set eyes,
~ Jay Giles