Across Quotes

If I threw across my body, I would step on the chair. Marv was trying to hurt me. I fooled him. I started stepping the right way.

It is just one of those preposterous things that men do like putting a dam across a great river, one tenth of whose volume could engulf the whole of mankind without disturbing the domestic life of a single catfish.

You are going to have a day without even the tiniest of pleasures; you are going to drive across Ohio.

Across Europe, there are six times more cold-related deaths than heat-related deaths…by 2050…Warmer temperatures will save 1.4 million lives each year.

Or we can keep moving forward with President Obama’s vision for a growing economy that works for middle-class families in North Carolina and all across the country. For me, for North Carolina and for America, it’s an easy choice.

I stared up at the ebbing quarter moon and the stars scattered like a handful of salt across the faraway sky.

Why do we fall silent or get worried just as our story is about to spring out of our control and into its own life? Whose shadow falls across the page?