A Quotes
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“And there was this sweet-looking little old lady with her white hair in a bun and everything, the typical grandmother type, and she was swearing her head off. I guess Alzheimer's had brought out her inner sailor.”
Source: Remembering Raquel
“And there was yet another difference between them. This one only visible to those who watched them keenly, studied the two boys over many moments and over many moons. But of course, no one could do that. Older Brother and Younger Brother were the only two people on earth. The difference was this: The older brother loved all thing, but the younger brother loved only himself. You would think such a thing would be readily apparent in a person, even obvious, but no, it isn't. Such a thing is often opaque and easily masked. And could take a lifetime to see, whether we love ourselves only or everything equally.”
Source: Indian Country
“And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I seemed to know very little of how the world worked and was truly grateful for instruction, whether it was how to stroke a backhand, mix a martini, use a wallpaper steamer, or do the Twist. My wife, too, seemed willing to learn. Old as we must have looked to our children, we were still taking lessons, in how to be grown-up.”
Source: Self-consciousness: memoirs
“And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.”
Source: The voyage of the Dawn Treader
“And there we have it: I am a neurotic mess. I guess this is what happens when you live with a brain that treats every second of existence as if there's been an urgent crime that needs to be solved immediately.”
Source: Cassandra in Reverse
“And there were men who worked as hard to restrict the vote as others did to expand it, such as John Randolph of Roanoke, who fought to deny the franchise to men without property, declaring, "I am an aristocrat. I love liberty. I hate equality.”
Source: The Fight to Vote
“And there were moments in this fetid little paradise when I prayed that in spite of everything I was capable of, I was somehow kin to every mortal. Maybe I was not the exotic outcast that I imagined, but merely the dim magnification of every human soul. Old truths and ancient magic, revolution and invention, all conspire to distract us from the passion that in one way or another defeats us all. And weary finally of this complexity, we dream of that long-ago time when each kiss was the pefect consummation of desire. What can we do but reach for the embrace that must now contain both heaven and hell: our doom again and again and agian.”
Source: The vampire Lestat
“And there were Mor and Azriel- and Cassian. The three of them dancing together, Mor's head tipped back to the sky, arms up, the starlight gleaming on the pure white of her gown. Dancing as if it might be her last time, flowing between Azriel and Cassian like the three of them were one unit, one being.
I looked behind me to find Rhys watching them, his face soft. Sad.
Separated for fifty years, and reunited- only to be cleaved apart so soon to fight again for their freedom.
Rhys caught my gaze and said, 'Come. There's a better view. Quieter.' He held a hand out to me.'
That sorrow, the weight, lingered in his eyes. And I couldn't bear to see it- just as I couldn't bear to see my three friends dancing together as if it was the last time they'd ever do it.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“And there were more smiles in the eyes on those crowded streets than in any other place I'd ever known.”
Source: Shantaram
“And there were other rocks that were like animals, creeping, horrible animals, putting out their tongues, and others were like words I could not say, and others like dead people lying on the grass. I went on among them, though they frightened me, and my heart was full of wicked song they put into it; and I wanted to make faces and twist myself about the way they did, and I went on and on a long way till at last I liked the rocks and they didn’t frighten me any more”
“And there were people who looked up at the sky and ached with loneliness, as they appealed in silence to the stars and the moon. They hoped that someplace, somewhere, someone heard them, that their own little dreams would come true, that very soon they would meet someone they could trust, could love and be happy with.”
Source: West Side Story
“And there were sort of three toys for boys and three toys for girls. And the boys I can remember was, well, there was a Dan Dare Ray Gun. Dan Dare was a sort of a cartoon character. He was just sort of a - he was like a Battle of Britain fighter pilot, only in space.”
“And there were the warm spaces in the music I loved the most, openings through which I could enter and lay my burdens down. There, behind the groove and riding on the melody, I was complete and free.”
Source: Soul Serenade: Rhythm, Blues & Coming of Age Through Vinyl
“and there were times when i felt lost,
but that did not stop me,
for the further i went ,
the more i collected myself
as i walked away
and the more i walked away
the closer i got it to all,,,
and in the end, i became the journey,
and like all journeys,
i did not end, i just
changed my directions.”
“And there will be a moment, as brief as a yawn, when she won't know where she is, and her heart will quicken—first with fear, and then with something else. Something she does not have the words for yet.”
Source: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“And there will be a time, not for long, a month is enough, or a week, when every single person will be able to completely fulfill what they were meant to be—everything their bodies and souls have offered them, not what other people have dumped on them.”
“And there will continue to be a specific threat, and there will continue to be terrorism, as there has been for as long as human history exists.”
“And there you are on the shore, fitful and thoughtful, trying to attach them to an idea — some news of your own life. But the lilies are slippery and wild—they are devoid of meaning, they are simply doing, from the deepest spurs of their being, what they are impelled to do every summer. And so, dear sorrow, are you.”
“And there you have it...if I knew that I could only have a few nights in that man's arms or nothing, I would take those magic nights and use them to keep me warm for the rest of my life.”
“And there you see the distinction between our feelings: had he been in my place, and I in his, though I hated him with a hatred that turned my life to gall, I never would have raised a hand against him. You may look incredulous, if you please! I never would have banished him from her society as long as she desired his. The moment her regard ceased, I would have torn his heart out and drank his blood! But, till then - if you don't believe me, you don't know me - til then, I would have died by inches before I touched a single hair on his head!”
Source: Wuthering Heights (Diversion Classics)
“And there you see what happens to the promises of eternal love which we women are foolish enough to believe! The more affectionate we are, the more likely it is that our seducers will desert us...the unfeeling brutes...the more we try to keep them, the greater the chance that they will abandon us.”
Source: The Crimes of Love
“And there you sit, atop the smoking mountain of rubble that was once your home, covered in gray dust, cradling the mangled corpse of your little girl in your arms, looking south to a Mexican people who, in solidarity with you, have stopped riding Uber.”
Source: A White Rose: A Soldier's Story of Love, War, and School
“And there you sit.
My eyes burning a hole on the side of your face while the stars are being captured in your eyes from the prolonged, there's-plenty-of-time, full attention you're giving each one.
And there you sit.
And I'm wishing I could give you every ounce of what you give the stars.”
“And there you stand -
Far away from the distant reality,
Far away in my breathing dream,
Far away in the traces of my livid eyes,
Far away in my hostile fantasy.”
Source: A Whispering Leaf. . .
“And there'd be no more jokes in Music-halls
To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume.”
“And there's a cop over there." "What?" the boy said, glancing at the D.C. police officer that stood at the corner of the street, "You think that guys can do a better job protecting you than I can?" Actually, I thought Liz could have done a better job "protecting" me than he could, but instead I said, "No, I think if you don't leave me alone, I can scream and that cop will arrest you." Somehow the boy seemed to know it was a joke.”
Source: Cross My Heart And Hope To Spy
“And there's a feeling you get from making music that is unlike anything else in the world.”
“And there's a lot of that stuff with people bringing their kids, kids bringing their parents, people bringing their grandparents - I mean, it's gotten to be really stretched out now. It was never my intention to say, this is the demographics of our audience.”
“And there's a period where everyone's buying those and it's really bad because no one is Larry David or Ricky Gervais. And then they don't work and networks stop wanting to buy them, but because they wanted to buy them before the producer wanted to make them, the producers are still hanging on to wanting to make them.”
“And there's a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind,
Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay
And smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind:
I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.”
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.”
“And there's a wonderful parable in the New Testament: The sower scatters seeds. Some seeds fall in the pathway and get stamped on, and they don't grow. Some fall on the rocks, and they don't grow. But some seeds fall on fallow ground, and they grow and multiply a thousandfold. Who knows where some good little thing that you've done may bring results years later that you never dreamed of?”
“And there's also not enough films that are more of a imitation of what real life looks like.”
“And there's always a better time than right now and there always will be. But right now is what we've got.”
Source: The Friday Night Knitting Club
“And there's always retrospect to light a clearer path.”
“And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past, you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that's what soma is.”
Source: Brave New World
“And there's been occasions where I've gone brown and got parts! I'm not above doing that! I hope after this, I can get a role where it won't be: "Oh, you can't play any role other than a blonde." I'm proud of being a blonde. I'd be proud of being a brunette or a red-head. I don't think it matters.”
“And there's doctors and lawyers,
And business executives,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.”
“And there's even a lord named Lord Dashwood [like the characters in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility]. It's very steeped in Austen. It's been used in many films, but not in its entirety and we shot the inside and the outside and used every nook and cranny. The inside is very gaudy. It's a little naughty inside. There's a lot of portraiture.”
“And there's no "I love you" message because Steve Ovett has married the girl”
“And there's no better way to thaw a face, as it turns out, than with another face.”
Source: Night of Cake and Puppets: A Daughter of Smoke and Bone Novella
“And there's no damage to the car. Except to the car itself.”
“And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.”
Source: A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles
“And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you.”
“And there's no one there to dry your tears. I could hold you for a million years. To make you feel my love.”
“And there's no way I'm going to do Dame Edna.”
“And there's nothing wrong with being a lizard either. Unless you were born to be a hawk.”
Source: Shadow and Bone
“And there's one thing about this underground work, we shan't get any rain.”
Source: The Chronicles of Narnia Vol IV: The Silver Chair
“And there's Ray Clemence looking as cool as ever out in the cold.”
“And there's so much extra material. I mean, I've certainly read as you asked about do I read reviews and stuff, like people are like none of the jokes in the trailers are like in the movie. And it's like and we have whole sequences and scenes that weren't in the movie.”