Perched Quotes
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I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
Perched on top of the pointed nose of the
— Ken Follett
We all of us need to be toppled off the throne of self, my dear," he said. "Perched up there the tears of others are never upon our own cheek.
— Elizabeth Goudge
I took a slice of melon and perched on the edge of a couch, watching them both, patently uncomfortable with the undefined nature of my role here.
— Jacqueline Carey
even after all these winters, I see you sitting there, perched at the edge of sunlight, feeling like the invitation of spring
— Brian Andreas
With the aid of a minute correction - that of the dispersing lens - in a gold frame perched on her nose, Miranda can see into hell.
— Ingeborg Bachmann
We've more important studies than your fantasies and fears You know that rock's been perched up there for a hundred thousand years.
— Harry Chapin
The leaves were still on the trees, but were becoming dry, perched like birds ready to fly off.
— Buchi Emecheta
I have no intention of watching undersized Englishmen perched on horses with matchstick legs race along courses planned to amuse Nell Gwynn.
— Gilbert Harding
On a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening
— Matsuo Basho
The Woodstock dove on the iconic poster is really a catbird. And it was originally perched on a flute.
— Shawn Amos
A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
What an electric heater perched upon the rim of the bathtub of the world that dead Jesus was.
— Tom Robbins
It's a big wide world, after all, and Mattawa, Washington, perched on the edge of it, is somewhere in between Nowhere and Nothing At All.
— Elise Forier Edie
Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife's edge.
— Sri Mulyani Indrawati
And I see the houses of the human race perched on the edge of the sea, shipwrecked in their false neighborliness.
— Italo Calvino
Perched on the edge of Case's worktable like some kind of state of the art gargoyle,
— William Gibson
For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter.
— Charles Bukowski
Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
— Edgar Allan Poe
Baby?" She perched beside him in the chair. "You're kidding me right?" "I was trying it out, no?" "no," she said firmly Simon & Clary
— Cassandra Clare
He was as indignant and irritated as if he had been served a veal cutlet with an egg perched on it.
— Rex Stout
He worked at a plain, tall desk at which he wrote standing up or perched on a high stool,
— David McCullough
She perched on the club chair he indicated. The leather was probably repelled by her cheap wool dress.
— Sarah Jane Stratford
And as an ev'ning dragon came, Assailant on the perched roosts And nests in order rang'd Of tame villatic fowl.
— John Milton
I look down from the branch I'm perched on. The Careers look murderous. Now I smile.'How have things been with you?' I ask sweetly.
— Suzanne Collins
A barn owl was perched atop the refrigerator.
— Elizabeth Bear