Gaping Quotes - page 2

What flocks of critics hover here to-day, As vultures wait on armies for their prey, All gaping for the carcase of a play! (John Dryden)
Even so a crowd of nestlings, seeing their mother returning through the air afar, would fain go to meet her, and lean gaping from the edge of the nest, and would even now be falling, did she not spread all her motherly bosom to save them, and chide them with loving wings. View quote
Statius
Like is he to a wolf that has forced an entrance to a rich fold of sheep, and now, his breast all clotted with foul corruption and his gaping bristly mouth unsightly with blood-stained wool, hies him from the pens, turning this way and that his troubled gaze, should the angry shepherds find out their loss and follow in pursuit, and flees all conscious of his bold deed. View quote
Statius
So when ebbing Nile hides himself in his great caverns and holds in his mouth the liquid nurture of an eastern winter, the valleys smoke forsaken by the flood and gaping Egypt awaits the sounds of her watery father, until at their prayers he grants sustenance to the Pharian fields and brings on a great harvest year. View quote
Statius
The pig's head hung down with gaping neck and seemed to search for something on the ground. At last the words of the chant floated up to them, across the bowl of blackened wood and ashes. "Kill the pig! Cut her throat! Spill the blood!" View quote
William Golding
Ports are the gaping hole in America's homeland security. View quote
Dianne Feinstein
Lo where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. View quote
Charles Sprague
There's no doubt about it, show business lures the people who didn't get enough love, attention, or approval early in life and have grown up to become bottomless, gaping vessels of terrifying, abject need. Please laugh. View quote
Dennis Miller
Five and forty years ago, when any terrible News arrived from England of their hostile designs against our Liberties, when the people, gaping and staring, pale and trembling, asked me, "What I thought of the News," my invariable Answer was, "The worse, the better." View quote
John Adams
Oh hell - Cliff is just too good a craftsman to leave such gaping holes in the foundations: [Enchanted Pilgrimage] has to be a sequel. View quote
Clifford D. Simak
The chant was audible but at that distance still wordless. Behind Jack walked the twins, carrying a great stake on their shoulders. The gutted carcass of a pig swung from the stake, swinging heavily as the twins toiled over the uneven ground. The pig's head hung down with gaping neck and seemed to search for something on the ground. At last the words of the chant floated up to them, across the bowl of blackened wood and ashes. "Kill the pig! Cut her throat! Spill the blood!" Yet as the words became audible, the procession reached the steepest part of the mountain, and in a minute or two the chant had died away. (William Golding)
The place itself, and ne'er a good word spoke of it, You shiver when you even make a joke of it.Though some go cocky, gaily in hand-basket there, The most fare sadly in a clammy casket there...Undying pain and gaping loss, no doubt of it. A wide way leading in and no way out of it!But none have told the blackest horror shrouded there - Tall teeming terror‚ but it sure is crowded there. View quote
R. A. Lafferty