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  • I'm like the trunk of a cactus... I take in a dose of culture and time with friends, then I retreat and go live on it for awhile until I get thirsty again.

    Nancy Horan (2007). “Loving Frank: A Novel”, p.16, Ballantine Books
  • Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower instincts that bind him to the earth. The moral life, however, is the fruit he bears; in it his true nature is revealed.

    Men   Roots   Imagination  
    "Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.
  • Can we get back to how we’re going to kill Nick? And what’s this about a dead body? You’d better start talking quick, Ivy, ’cause I’m not going to play hide-and-seek with a dead guy in my trunk. I did that in college, and I’m not going to do it again.” A smile quirked Ivy’s mouth. “Really?” she asked, and I flushed.

    College   Talking   Play  
  • The traveller knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead; so that with lonely footsteps he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude.

    Lonely   Unseen   May  
    Nathaniel Hawthorne (2012). “Young Goodman Brown and Other Short Stories”, p.34, Courier Corporation
  • Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters.

    Herman Melville (1892). “Moby Dick”, p.275
  • Trunk steady knocking/ Floating through the sky, Mary Poppins.

    Sky   Floating   Trunks  
  • I got dead bodies rotting in my Benz trunk. Trunk of funk, I call it.

    Order   Law   Rotting  
  • Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.

    Mahatma Gandhi (1951). “Satyagraha: Non-violent Resistance”
  • Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below.

    Hands   Tree   Splinters  
    Ambrose Bierce (2012). “Civil War Stories”, p.18, Courier Corporation
  • A wild boar was sharpening his tusks upon the trunk of a tree in the forest when a fox came by and asked, Why are you doing that, pray? The huntsmen are not out today and there are no other dangers at hand that I can see. True, my friend, replied the Boar, but the instant my life is in danger, I shall need to use my tusks. There will be no time to sharpen them then.

    Hands   Tree   Needs  
    Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.180, Aesop
  • When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured.

    Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”
  • Friends aren't jumper cables. You don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies.

  • It's all about attitude and feeling good about yourself and not looking like everybody on TV. You do not have to be small; you can have some junk in your trunk.

  • Repeat the truth so that the dull can grasp it! Repeat the truth with the speed of a woodpecker's beak making holes in tree trunks!

    Tree   Woodpeckers   Dull  
  • I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.

    Revenge   Hatred   Want  
    "'I have the hatred in a trunk in storage'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2005.
  • Now he saw another elephant emerge from the place where it had stood hidden in the trees. Very slowly it walked to the mutilated body and looked down. With its sinuous trunk it struck the huge corpse; then it reached up, broke some leafy branches with a snap, and draped them over the mass of torn thick flesh. Finally it tilted its massive head, raised its trunk, and roared into the empty landscape.

    Elephants   Tree   Body  
    Lois Lowry (1993). “The Giver”, Laurel Leaf
  • Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.

    Maturity   Roots   Style  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.164
  • So let us raise a cheer ... for the insatiable spirit of Man eager for all new things! What a tale could have been written by that far off man who first saw a tree trunk roll and made a wheel and cart and harnessed in his mare and cracked his whip and drove away to disappear beyond the hill! Or that first man who made a boat and raised a sail and disappeared hull down to unknown shores!

    Cheer   Men   Tree  
  • A kid thinks her mother is just that -- hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being, who doesn't want to be reminded by anyone, child or otherwise, of her tree-trunk thighs. The world made women's private lives a public affair to people who knew them and even people who didn't.

    Mother   Children   Kids  
  • Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but also to sniff and touch it. With their unparalleled sense of smell, the animals know exactly what they are going for. Vision is secondary.

  • When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life. Similarly, though ahamkara (egotism) is slain in the perfect man, yet enough of its vitality is left to make him carry on the functions of physical life; but it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.

    Struggle   Men   Perfect  
    Ramakrishna (1965). “Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna: the most exhaustive collection of them, their number being 1120”
  • With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.

    Elephants   Four   Fit  
    Attributed to John von Neumann by Enrico Fermi in "A meeting with Enrico Fermi" by Freeman Dyson in "Nature", Issue 427 (p. 297), www.nature.com. January 22, 2004.
  • We treat this world of ours as though we have a spare in the trunk.

    World   Trunks   Treats  
  • Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil. Are empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil.

    Beauty   Evil   Hypocrisy  
    William Shakespeare (2016). “Twelfth Night”, p.68, Penguin
  • In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go home. But this is home. I have to be a home to myself. I am the place I come back to and I can't keep hiding difficult things in trunks. Soon the house will be full of trunks and I perched on top of them with the phone saying, "Yes, I'm fine, of course, I'm fine, everything's fine." The trunks shudder.

    Home   Phones   Light  
    Jeanette Winterson (1995). “Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd”, Knopf
  • Yet friendship, I believe, is essential to intellectuals. It is probably the growth hormone the mind requires as it begins its activity of producing and exchanging ideas. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk. In the course of my history, not love or marriage so much as friendship has promoted growth.

  • When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk.

    Karen Joy Fowler (2014). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves”, p.135, Serpent's Tail
  • Oh, who would choose to be a traveler? --That anxious railway-guide unravelerWho spends his nights in berths and bunks,His days in chaperoning trunks;Who stands in line at gates and wicketsTo spend his means on costly ticketsTo Irkutsk, Liverpool and YapAnd other dots upon the map.

    Mean   Night   Bunk  
    Arthur Guiterman, “The Traveler”
  • Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgment Day, they were the only sinners who didn't get their souls back, because they tried to get rid of them once before.

    God   Suicide   Tree  
    Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.167, Simon and Schuster
  • Twenty-five years is a long time for a girl to live out of a trunk, and after looking over a few houses, I fell in love with one in Southwest Los Angeles.

    Girl   Years   Long  
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