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Trunk steady knocking/ Floating through the sky, Mary Poppins. -- Riff Raff
I got dead bodies rotting in my Benz trunk. Trunk of funk, I call it. -- Bushwick Bill
The OakLive thy Life, Young and old,Like yon oak,Bright in spring, Living gold;Summer-rich Then; and thenAutumn-changedSoberer-hued Gold again.All his leaves Fall'n at length,Look, he stands,Trunk and bough Naked strength. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow. -- Aeschylus
I have a GoPro in the trunk of my streetcar. -- Nick Woodman
There's nothing sexy about skin and bone. You gotta have some junk in the trunk. -- Amy Lee
I've got more junk in the trunk than most 5-foot-1 blonde girls, and I like it. -- Kristen Bell
Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top. -- Orlando Bloom
I always had a trunk full of good reviews. I'd get magnificent reviews, and I'd be standing out on the unemployment line! -- Diane Ladd
I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer. -- Dolly Parton
A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns. -- Marguerite Young
My clothes are fabulous - colourful, fun and by some very special designers. They deserve a better life than being sleeping beauties in a bed of tissue inside a trunk. -- Suzy Menkes
My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end. -- Neil Jordan
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Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground. -- Pope Paul VI
I was about 12 when I first encountered 'The Moonstone' - or a Classics Illustrated version of it - digging through an old trunk in my grandfather's house on a rainy Bengali afternoon. -- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Growing up, my mom made us this amazing thing called The Mack Theatrical Wardrobe. It was a massive trunk filled with everything that you'd want as a kid if you were into imagination and play. -- Allison Mack
I live like in the days of Daniel Boone, hauling water by hand. I used to have two Rolls-Royces. Now I got one. It's got four flat tires; the trunk is open, and a rat lives inside it. -- Dick Dale
Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs. -- Henry Villard
Hope and purpose in this world is living as best as you can and maybe having life that gives back. But simply giving back isn't purpose; it's a branch of purpose, but it is not the trunk or root of the tree. -- Nick Vujicic
In the trunk of her car, my mother used to keep a collapsible easel, a clutch of brushes, a little wooden case stocked with tubes of paint, and, tucked into the spare-tire well, one of my father's old, tobacco-stained shirts, for a smock. -- Jill Lepore
Trouble results when the speed of growth exceeds the speed of nurturing human resources. To use the analogy of growth rings in a tree, when unusually rapid growth caused the rings to grow abnormally thick, the tree trunk weakens and is easily broken. -- Akio Toyoda
Scientists are supposed to study animals in a totally objective fashion, similar to the way we inspect a rock or measure the circumference of a tree trunk. Emotions are not to interfere with the assessment. The animal-rights movement capitalizes on this perception, depicting scientists as devoid of compassion. -- Frans de Waal
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. -- Salman Rushdie
My mom has an English accent, so we always referred to the trunk as the 'boot.' And then, suddenly, we moved to Georgia and I would say things like 'open the boot' with a bit of an accent, and I quickly realized I had to adapt; that kind of thing will get you beat up! -- Nicole Beharie
There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show; they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it? -- Michael Kors
One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die. -- Justin Cronin
When it comes to romance, I believe in keeping it simple. With my last girlfriend, we were on our way to our favorite restaurant when I pretended that the car was crappin' out. I asked her to get out and check if smoke was coming from the exhaust. When she did, I popped the trunk and inside were six dozen roses and a stuffed bear. -- Justin Chon
I've always wanted to do a segment on a talk show. Jay Leno has been such a good friend, and if he would allow me, I'd have to get it all together, but I'd like to go on 'The Tonight Show' and do a set with no props. Or come out with a trunk and never touch it. Or come out with a clear trunk with nothing in it. -- Carrot Top
I have a trunk containing continents. -- Beryl Markham
My trunk, valises and my mind are overpacked. -- Anais Nin
Seldom indeed does human virtue rise From trunk to branch. -- Dante Alighieri
There, there, baby. We'll hide her body in the trunk later. (Tory) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy. -- Zakes Mda
We treat this world of ours as though we have a spare in the trunk. -- Al Bernstein
I AM the current curator of the black trunk and the stories it holds within. -- Hope Barrett
However long it stays in the river the tree-trunk will never turn into a crocodile. -- Ousmane Sembene
The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk. -- Jonathan Swift
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower. -- Pietro Metastasio
As the trunk is one but the branches are many, yoga is one but adaptations may vary. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Friends aren't jumper cables. You don't throw them into the trunk and pull them out for emergencies. -- Charlie Krueger
And when I was in the trunk, I saw Jesus. And the Virgin Mary. And Ozzy Osbourne. -- Janet Evanovich
That was interesting, riding in the trunk," Milo said, "but I wouldn't want to do it again. -- Dean Koontz
Eventually, everything gets stuck between a pair of parentheses or buried in the bottom of a trunk. -- Carol Shields
With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk. -- John von Neumann
Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree. -- Henry David Thoreau
I thought I was having an existential crisis, but it was nothing. Please don't tailgate: body in trunk. -- Libba Bray
The mind is like a trunk: if well-packed, it holds almost every thing; if ill-packed, next to nothing. -- Augustus William Hare
Out of the trunk, the branches grow; out of them, the twigs. So, in productive subjects, grow the chapters. -- Herman Melville
Important achievements require a clear focus, all-out effort, and a bottomless trunk full of strategies. Plus allies in learning. -- Carol S. Dweck
If my body were a tree trunk, the rings would surely reveal the time it has had to mature. -- Robert M. Hensel
I hear them playing Elvis, they on they way to Graceland. But they don't scare me, I'm in the trunk. -- Wyclef Jean
Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage. -- Henry David Thoreau
Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott. -- Bal Gangadhar Tilak
The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft. -- George Balanchine
When there is an invisible elephant in the room, one is from time to time bound to trip over a trunk. -- Karen Joy Fowler
Some vices only lay hold of us by means of others, and these, like branches, fall on removal of the trunk. -- Blaise Pascal
It was so sweet backstage, you should have seen it: The Teamsters were helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo. -- Steve Martin
I'd be ashamed to see a woman walking around with my name-label on her, address and railway station, like a wardrobe trunk. -- D. H. Lawrence
A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry? -- George Iles
Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths. -- Mahatma Gandhi
When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma. -- Mark Twain
I was self-conscious of what I would call my "tree-trunk legs" because they are very muscular... but now I've learned to love them. -- Vanessa Hudgens
Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas. -- Waylon Jennings
When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So large a trunk before. -- Hilaire Belloc
I have boxes full of stuff. Most actors do have a trunk full of stuff, paintings or scripts. It never comes to anything. -- Christopher Walken
Everything is always grungy in England, no? It's like a little shibboleth of the upper class, wearing something out of your grandfather's trunk. -- Leon Max
I knew we were destined to be lovers from the moment she tied me up and stuffed me in the trunk of her car. -- Jarod Kintz
Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root. -- Charles Caleb Colton
My prodding me didn't elicit a reaction. His unseeing eyes stared straight through me. Which was odd. He'd seemed so sane huddled in Cookie's trunk. -- Darynda Jones
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. -- Mary McCarthy
We do not make beams from the hollow, decaying trunk of the fallen oak. We use the upsoaring tree in the full vigor of its sap. -- Sylvia Pankhurst
There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches. -- Blaise Pascal
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk. -- Francis Bacon
I want to leave a legacy. I'll leave him in the trunk, tied up, at a parking garage on the campus of the university where he graduated. -- Jarod Kintz
They were steaming out of the station before Maia asked, 'Was it books in the trunk?' 'It was books, admitted Miss Minton. And Maia said, 'Good. -- Eva Ibbotson
You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all. -- Sophocles
We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body. -- Michel de Montaigne
A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and enriches the earth. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects. -- William Cowper
I remember my friend Johnny von Neumann used to say, 'with four parameters I can fit an elephant and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.' -- Enrico Fermi
What is a memory? Not a storehouse, not a trunk in the attic, but an instrument that constantly refines the past into a narrative, accessible and acceptable to oneself. -- Stanley Kauffmann
A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth. -- Laozi
I'm afraid to be on this shore a trunk without limbs, and what I most regret is not to have flower, pulp, or clay for the worm of my suffering. -- Federico Garcia Lorca
To express our love, we carved a heart into the trunk of a tree, which I later cut down and turned into a cabinet to more efficiently hold all our love. -- Jarod Kintz
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. -- Beyonce Knowles
The tree is more than first a seed, then a stem, then a living trunk, and then dead timber. The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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. -- Ethel Waters
Something doesn't look right," Vee said. "Is the tire supposed to look like that?" I banged my head against the nearest tree trunk. "So we've got a flat," Vee said. "What now? -- Becca Fitzpatrick
I was on top of Keanu Reeves, he was on his back and I was on my trunk, and I was breathing down his neck for hours and hours. It was... very erotic. -- Hugo Weaving
Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
PROBOSCIS, n. The rudimentary organ of an elephant which serves him in place of the knife-and-fork that Evolution has as yet denied him. For purposes of humor it is popularly called a trunk. -- Ambrose Bierce
With every step I took away from her, the movement at my heart and between my legs grew more defined: I felt like a ventriloquist, locking his protesting dolls in to a trunk. -- Sarah Waters
A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur. -- Jostein Gaarder
A hydrogen atom in a cell at the end of my nose was once part of an elephant's trunk. A carbon atom in my cardiac muscle was once in the tail of a dinosaur." -- Jostein Gaarder
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed. -- David Benioff
Real Men no longer drive Corvettes. Despite being able to squander gas with the best of them, even today's least enlightened Real Man finds the notion of a $17,000 plastic car with no trunk somewhat absurd. -- Bruce Feirstein
A great acacia, with its slender trunk And overpoise of multitudinous leaves. (In which a hundred fields might spill their dew And intense verdure, yet find room enough) Stood reconciling all the place with green. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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