#suspended

My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military. ↗

— Smedley Butler

#everyone #faculties #i #mental #military

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. ↗

— Pier Paolo Pasolini

#ambiguous #finished #got #life #once

I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause. ↗

— Edward Said

#been #cause #declare #extremely #hesitated

I was in preschool and a girl actually kissed me on the cheek. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what it meant, so I instantly grabbed her face and kissed her on the lips. And, then I got suspended. ↗

— Jensen Ackles

#cheek #face #girl #got #grabbed

No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#animation #caught #exist #movement #state

The Pulitzer isn't a physical object. You can't hold it in your hand. You get some money ($7,500 in my day), and you get a little Tiffany's paperweight with your name on it and the image of Joseph Pulitzer suspended in the crystal. When people see my 'Pulitzer' (I keep it in my sock drawer), they are pretty amazed at its meagerness. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#crystal #day #drawer #get #hand

The simple tableau is so rich with meaning that whether represented on the mantelpiece or in the mind, it seems suspended, complete unto itself, somewhere in eternity. ↗

— Lucinda Franks

#eternity #itself #mantelpiece #meaning #mind

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#because #bottom #generalized #intellectuals #international

We didn't think he would play on Sunday because he was suspended - that makes me think he has all the qualities to join Arsenal! ↗

— Arsene Wenger

#because #join #makes #me #play

Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines. ↗

— Claude McKay

#clothes #each #flat #ghosts #hang