Grating Quotes

A grating sound came from the dragon's throat . . . "You offer me safety! You threaten me! With what?"

"With your name, Yevaud. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. — John Steinbeck

A sense of wrongness, of fraught unease, as if long nails scraped the surface of the moon, raising the hackles of the soul. — China Mieville

How can the poem and the stink and the grating noise - the quality of light, the tone, the habit and the dream - be set down alive? — John Steinbeck

Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating. — Warren Zevon

[On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private body. — Caitlin Thomas

I still can't go over a subway grating without looking down to see if there is some money there. — Eartha Kitt

A breath, whence no man knows, Swaying the grating weeds, it blows; It comes, it grieves, it goes. Once it rocked the summer rose. — John Vance Cheney

It does. This is how it should have been anyway.' I caught my breath as he kissed my neck, teeth grating my skin. 'And I'll take back what's mine. — Richelle Mead

About 1930, our laboratory had obtained a large concave grating and set it up in a Runge-Paschen mounting. — Frits Zernike

There is nothing so debilitating to a naturally weak sense of humor as selling tickets behind a grating ... — Kate Douglas Wiggin

He found that man needs affection, that life without a warming love is but a dry wheel, creaking and grating as it turns. — Victor Hugo

Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue. — William Wordsworth

But the watchful care of the parent is endless. The youth is never free from the danger of grating interference. — William Godwin

If the sound of happy children is grating on your ears, I don't think it's the children who need to be adjusted. — Stefan Molyneux

We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another. — Peter De Vries

Through the metal grating on my carrier door, Adrian's face suddenly appeared, peering in at me. What new, pussycat? — Richelle Mead

All I hear is my own grating thoughts. Is there anything more horrid than being trapped inside yourself with nothing but your own insecurities. — Sarah Jio

Okay, boys." Pestilence's grating voice rang out. "Kill the human and the mutt, and let's get this Apocalypse started! — Larissa Ione

I saw the world and its lack of compassion, its harsh, grating judgment, and its cold, resentful eyes. — Tahereh Mafi