“Before my eyes he wilted like a wet sock.”

“He pulled away, but his eyes held my eyes like hands.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

“leave me in peace, let me sleep one night at least without my pillow being wet with tears, my eyes burning and my head throbbing”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

“Jeeves lugged my purple socks out of the drawer as if he were a vegetarian fishing a caterpillar out of his salad.”

P.G. Wodehouse book The Inimitable Jeeves

“You find him disgusting with his thick mouth and ugly body and wet appealing eyes. You think he's disgusting and you're afraid.”

Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) Swedish filmmaker

“Keep death and exile daily before thine eyes, with all else that men deem terrible, but more especially Death. Then wilt thou never think a mean thought, nor covet anything beyond measure.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

“You Titans are about as bright as my gym socks.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

“My bark is on the ocean riding,
Like a spirit o'er it gliding;
Maiden, wilt thou come—and be
Queen of my fair ship and me?”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

“In the intermission, between group one and group two, you go to your dressing-room and change every stitch you have on you: underwear, shirt, tie, socks, pants and tails. Your other clothes are soaking wet.”

George Antheil (1900–1959) American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor

“It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself.”

Charlaine Harris book Club Dead