Quicksand Quotes

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.
Steven Wright

Child, Kid, Eventually

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.
George Sand

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.
John Updike

Morning, Through, Another

I think viewers quite like it when I'm suffering or eating or drinking something horrible or really up against it in some quicksand or whatever.
Bear Grylls

Suffering, Whatever, Against

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
Hannah More

Poverty, Youth, Storms

The Chinese banking system is built on quicksand and that's the one thing a lot of people don't realize. Everybody seems to think it is a free and clear open checkbook. It's not. The banking system in China is extremely fragile.
James Chanos

Free, Realize, Everybody

Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.
Rose Wilder Lane

Life, Best, Poor

I worship the quicksand he walks in.
Art Buchwald

There's no more place in the euro zone for well-meaning laxness when dealing with deficits and failings. If the demands on Greece aren't taken seriously, we'll get stuck in quicksand. In the worst case, this would make it acceptable for one tranche to not be paid out. It is in the Greeks own interest not to test that.
Peer Steinbruck

Place, Seriously, Worst

If there's not any endgame, we're in quicksand. We take one more step, and we're still there, and there's no way out.
Richard Shelby

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