Flinty Famous Quotes & Sayings
22 Flinty Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
Character is a strange blending of flinty strength and pliable warmth.— Robert H. Shaffer
But those coins are wishes! You're stealing other people's wishes!"— Katherine Rundell
The look Matteo gave her was so flinty, she could have chipped a tooth on it. "If you have money to waste on wishes, you don't need the wishes as badly as I need the money.
I am going to spend my time today just thanking the people that played a role in my career, because I truly do believe that I was blessed by a lot of people that paths crossed mine as I went down the road in my career.— Nolan Ryan
I always want to push myself as far as possible; I always want to be up there and recognised as a good goalie and have people appreciate what you do.— Henrik Lundqvist
Behold yon rough and flinty road— Emma Ghent Curtis
Where youth, now youth no more,
Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loaves
He cast away of yore.
God is our fortress, in whose conquering name— William Shakespeare
Let us resolve to scale their flinty bulwarks.
I'd like to take a walk far back in the flinty hills and search for a souvenir, an old double-bitted ax stuck deep in the side of a white oak tree. I know the handle has long since rotted away with time. Perhaps the rusty frame of a coal-oil lantern still hangs there on the blade.— Wilson Rawls
His passion has aroused the best and the beast in man. And the beast waited for him in the kitchen.— Theodore White
Behold the onset of my flinty tone. Along with so much else, a soft-tissue sarcoma can apparently drain the exultation from one's prose.— Jonathan Lethem
The thorny path bears some of the sweetest flowers that adorn life. And when with naked, bleeding feet we walk upon a flinty soil, we often find diamonds.— Elizabeth Prentiss
Fire— Christopher John Brennan
Fire In The Heavens
Fire in the heavens, and fire along the hills,
and fire made solid in the flinty stone,
thick-mass'd or scatter'd pebble, fire that fills
the breathless hour that lives in fire alone.
This valley, long ago the patient bed
of floods that carv'd its antient amplitude,
in stillness of the Egyptian crypt outspread,
endures to drown in noon-day's tyrant mood.
Behind the veil of burning silence bound,
vast life's innumerous busy littleness
is hush'd in vague-conjectured blur of sound
that dulls the brain with slumbrous weight, unless
some dazzling puncture let the stridence throng
in the cicada's torture-point of song.
Dad called this the shadow time. The sun sucks colour from the world, he'd said. He'd taught her to see the softer colours of the dusk, the green and orange bark, the purple shadows. At times like this Flinty felt her edges vanish, leaving her part of the mountains, like the wallaby pulling wonga vine down from a thorn bush, or the sleepy possum peering from a tree.— Jackie French
We're all bits that the war didn't take, Flinty thought, gazing at the stranger's back. But those left behind had a right to know more about the beast who'd chewed their lives and spat the remnants out.— Jackie French
I assured him I was naturally hard - very flinty, and that he would often find me so; and that, moreover, I was determined to show him divers rugged points in my character— Charlotte Bronte
People say the 'Lost Generation' in a romantic sense, but I think it was tragic. They were really lost.— Corey Stoll
Jeb suddenly looked right at me, and something in those flinty eyes made me want to back away, snarling. "You don't mind, do you girl?"— Julie Kagawa
"Not at all," I replied, staring him down, "if you ask me nicely!
Miss McClure ... " he had been talking while her mind drifted off.— Lizzie Ashworth
She brought her gaze back to his face, trying to focus on the flinty stare and thin line of his lips. "Sorry, I was distracted. And can't you call me Bryn?"
"I'll try, but generally I prefer a more formal approach in business dealings. It keeps the relationship clear."
"Like, you in charge, the other person in submission?" The words popped out before she edited herself. Her eyes grew large as she watched his face go through a change of expression. A slight smile hovered at the corner of his mouth.
"Yes, something like that. Might I get a refill?" He held up his empty glass.
Here was a thing that would grow old; here was a thing that would turn beautiful and lose that beauty, that would inherit the grace but also the bad ear and flawed figure of her mother, that would smile too much and squint too often and spend the last decades of her life creaming away the wrinkles made in youth until she finally gave up and wore a collar of pears to hide a wattle; here was the ordinary sadness of the world.— Andrew Sean Greer
You're a heroin Flinty McAlpine. I reckon you can do anything you set your mind to.— Jackie French
He'll have to get used to things being hard on him,' said Diana, her expression flinty. 'He's a Shadowhunter now.— Cassandra Clare
Scanty and insufficient suppers those, and innocent of meat, as if most other sauce to wretched bread. Yet, human fellowship infused some nourishment into the flinty viands, and struck some sparks of cheerfulness out of them. Fathers and mothers who had had their full share in the worst of the day, played gently with their meager children; and lovers, with such a word around then and before them, loved and hoped.— Charles Dickens
The tyrant custom, most grave senators,— William Shakespeare
Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war
My thrice-driven bed of down.
