(19 quotes found)
“I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. . . . I do not weep at the world -- I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.”
Zora Neale Hurston
“. . . there was about him a suggestion of lurking ferocity, as though the Wild still lingered in him and the wolf in him merely slept.”
Jack London
“We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.”
Henry David Thoreau
“There is a silent enemy lurking there.”
Robert Peter Gale
“She seems very benign and wholesome, ... but underneath lurks an incredible toughness and powerful directness.”
Shirley Manson
“Under every stone lurks a politician.”
Aristophanes
“A snake lurks in the grass. - Eclogues”
Virgil
“And there's always that unspoken CBS factor lurking in the air of the hotel suite.”
Rob Daniels
“[And lurking at a concession stand nearby is the debate of whether there are enough footballs to keep all of the receivers happy.] That's on the quarterback, ... Ask Joey. Joey's got to spread (it) around.... All I can do is get open.”
Charles Rogers
“We are starting to see the bite from some of the risks that have been lurking in the background, like oil. I think it's going to continue to be tougher for this market to do anything positive.”
Hans Olsen
