Discharges Quotes

Most people lie and let life play upon them like the tepid discharges of a douche-bag. — Lawrence Durrell

A single spark of occasion discharges the child of passions into a thousand crackers of desire. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

In civilised society law is the chimney through which all that smoke discharges itself that used to circulate through the whole house, — Walter Scott

How many dishonorable discharges have you had?" "Lots," said Nobby, proudly. "But I always puts a poultice on 'em. — Terry Pratchett

The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges. — Charles Caleb Colton

How can a river that rises in a black forest and discharges in a black sea be celebrated as blue? — Tessa De Loo

Creation not only exists, it also discharges truth... Wisdom requires a surrender, verging on the mystical, of a person to the glory of existence. — Gerhard Von Rad

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. — Norman Mailer