I Quotes
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“It was the sort of house that glows with substance and savoir vivre in those advertisements for the best Scotch. It had wonderful bones.”
“It was the sort of library you'd marry a man for.”
Source: The Madwoman Upstairs
“It was the sort of life that suited me best: musket shots all day long, and supper with my mistress in the evening!”
“It was the sort of moment that a smoker would fill in with a cigarette and an ex-smoker filled in with the memory of a cigarette.”
Source: The January Zone: Cliff Hardy 10
“It was the sort of thing Alex had seen a thousand times in films and on television, and he was shocked by how different the reality was.”
Source: Stormbreaker
“It was the soul of the machine, the ethological epicentre, the planetary ground zero of their commercial energy. I could almost feel it, shivering down like bomb-blasted rivers of glass from these undreaming towers of dark and light invading the snow-dark sky.”
Source: The State of the Art
“It was the sound of a thousand hungry children crying, ten thousand widows tearing their hair over their husband's graves, a chorus of angels singing the last dirge on the day of God's death.”
Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
“It was the South African Government that has introduced politics into sport by decreeing politically that no non-white person will represent their country. They introduced politics into sport." And Don [Bradman] was a very shrewd old bloke, and he looked at me for about thirty seconds and then he said, "Bob, I've got no answer to that." And that was it.”
“It was the Spice Girls who messed it all up. And obviously, the appropriating of the phrase "girl power", which at that point overrode any notion of feminism, and which was a phrase that meant absolutely nothing apart from being friends with your girlfriends.”
“It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building.”
“It was the spirit of the workers that was dangerous. The tired, gray crowds ebbing and flowing perpetually into the mills had waked and opened their mouths to sing.”
“It was the spot I'd sat every morning, waiting for my father's ship to return, even though he told me it wasn't coming back... it took me two years to believe him.”
Source: Fable
“It was the stop that happened when you made up your mind to confess, but your mouth betrayed you in the end.”
Source: The Raven Boys
“It was the storm that would forever change the course of human destiny.”
Source: Cybersp@ce
“It was the story of the wrecks that hadn't happened, of the lives people got to keep living because of a light in the darkness ...”
Source: Swan Light
“It was the strangest sensation, fallin' in love. 'Bout the only thing I compare it to would be jumpin' off a big cliff. Once you're past the edge, there ain't no particular reason to be graspin' for a line a safety. You just keep on fallin' anyhow, so you might as well enjoy it the whole way down.”
“It was the straying that found the path direct.”
Source: The Writings of Austin Osman Spare: Anathema of Zos, the Book of Pleasure and the Focus of Life
“It was the stretch and give of the lycra. And the deep blue, invitingly deep, the deep blue of sleep she longed for, blank and intense, and dissolving everything that would make her toss and turn endlessly through the night.”
Source: Missing, Presumed Dead
“It was the study hour. Most of the monks were reading. A few were meditating, an activity that was suspiciously similar to dozing.”
Source: THE PILLARS OF THE EARTH
“It was the success of 'Bend it Like Beckham' which got my name out there. 'A Mighty Heart' also helped.”
“It was the summer I finally left the woman I hated.
No, too much, I didn't hate her.
When you feel nothing for someone long enough, it starts to seem like hate.”
“It was the sunlight coming through the window that woke Alex up; mother nature's own alarm clock rudely snapped him back to consciousness. The white light poured in so arrogantly that it was too much for his eyes to handle. Squinting did not seem enough to defend against it and the light slipped between his fingers when he held up his hand in an attempt to shield his eyes.”
Source: Halfway To Nowhere
“It was the television that turned me to film. My parents did take me to Pete's Dragon.”
“It was the tenderness mingled with melancholy which we bring to a time that belongs irrevocably to the past, when a pale, delicate shadow rises from it bearing the lilies of the dead, and in it we find a forgotten likeness to ourselves. And that faint, wistful shadow, that pale scent, seemed to vanish away into a wide, full, warm stream - the life that now lay open before him.”
“It was the third day of “you’re the only single person here.” Couple’s retreat had a way of reinvigorating Singlehood Awareness that seemed to naturally occur around the holidays, specifically November through February 14th, except the retreat offered a more concentrated formula.”
Source: Montgomery's Diary
“It was the tick marks above my bed, underneath the bunk on top of mine, that got me thinking about when I'd last extended my hand to anyone. Or anyone extended their hand to me.
Someone who lived in the dorm before me had recorded their days at university like a prison sentence, carving into the wooden slats under Jarred's bed, and, one night a week ago, reaching up to run a finger over the tallies, I touched the gnawing in me. I realized it had worked its way around inside, gouging, for a while. It must be a hole I've carried since the start of freshman year. (Though sometimes I wonder if it carried over from years before that.)
Simple tally marks etched with a pocketknife woke me to my hollowness.”
Source: Love from A to Z
“IT was the time of day when Lake Eden residents decided it was too late for a breakfast cookie and too early for a lunch cookie.”
Source: Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder
“It was the time of the change… no longer a little one, the time when, I was starting to see things happening, to me that I did not want to see. Like- passion pink braces on my unperfected overbite teeth along with ‘Pimples, periods, hips and boobs- oh my… I just want to cry or die.’
Moreover, I was utterly feeling all kinds of things that I didn’t want to feel. I was feeling too old for toys and wanted to feel up one of the older boys. I was an 8th grader, Yes, I was at that stage of my life… it feels strangely good and yet very weird too. ‘Oh yes- Live's through middle school all over again.’ All the days off. All the days on… all the days- I was turned off, to all of them.
And yes, all the days, I was turned on!
Yet, really can anyone stand to relive that day… I mean really! Let’s not forget I had to spend time with the family, on the brakes, then to come home and do all the pointless homework like advanced mathematics. When I got most of that crap done sitting in long study halls not able to move or say a sound, with period cramps, yeah- I know fun right!
Kissing with open mouths, like breath sucking and tugs brushing Frenching.
As well as thinking about what boy, I want to have sizzling, exhilarating, desiring sex with is all I thought about! Plus- when, where, and how! Yes, I have had some really bad kisses, make-outs, and hookups… who hasn’t? So much so, I barely survived through them the primary time it happened. Just like the world keeps going around, this was not my first go-around either.
Frankly, I thought I would not have minded living through all that again. What I thought were the ultimate times of all. Like the time I made out with a girl in the hallway slammed upon her locker, she was touching me in all the right places, let us just say. Anyways her name is Jenny Stevenson. She is the type of girl that is a friend to try things with. Yes, I have been with a girl too. Mostly, I just wanted to see what being in a lesbian world feels like. It was okay, it feels just as good. Though, I knew boys were my thing. However, I am the type, I will try anything once, even sex-wise!
Though I thought, my paramount triumphs were with Ray Raymond, and like when we first hooked up underneath the football stadium bleachers. I knew everyone could see us doing it with his pants down, and my bare butt sticking out and up, as the game was going on. Still, we were in the moment, we did not care.
The PDA was half the fun of doing it, it was all about getting some.
I remember being wasted too, with my friends like Jenny, Kenneth, and Madeline. Yet we just called her Maddie. Like- I said we got so drunk and high, that we went skinny dipping in like old man’s pool weather thirdly two degrees, and then made messed up looking snowman, and running around the street somewhat ass naked flashing whomever we would get to look at us.”
Source: Nevaeh Falling too You
“It was the time of the Cold War and so there were was a lot of pressure on the - to get going and the Russians were claiming that they were - Soviets were claiming they were ahead of us in technology. And so it was against that backdrop that the early space flights took off.”
“It was the time of year that makes every poet’s heart sing and every lawyer question their life choices.”
“It was the time of year when migrating crows wheeled across the sky, thunderous flocks that moved like a single veil, and I heard them, out there in the wild chirruping air. Turing to the window, I watched the birds fill the sky before disappearing, and when the air was still again, I watched the empty place where they had been.”
“It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone.”
Source: White Noise
“It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other mortal trails, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore.”
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
“It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity.”
“It was the tiredness of time lived, with its days and days. It was the tiredness of gravity- gravity, which wants you down in the center of the earth.”
Source: The Information
“It was the titanic that sank and the ark that floated.”
“It was the tone of a woman who wrapped needles in silk.”
Source: The Dog Walker: The Prequel
“It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity”
Source: Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman
“It was the Tower. The Dark Tower. It stood on the horizon of a vast plain the color of blood in the violent setting of a dying sun. He couldn't see the stairs which spiraled up and up and up within its brick shell, but he could see the windows which spiraled up along that staircase’s way, and saw the ghosts of all the people he had ever known pass through them. Up and up they marched, and an arid wind brought him the sound of voices calling his name.”
Source: The Drawing of the Three
“It was the transcendent fortitude and steadfastness of these men who in adversity and in suffering through the darkest hour of our history held faithful to an ideal. Here men endured that a nation might live.”
Source: Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President
“It was the transmutation of the classical liberal intellectual foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and that pushed European accomplishment so far ahead of all other cultures and civilizations around the world.”
“It was the trust of many years, a true friendship, crumbling apart in her heart. The feeling of betrayal, stronger than a typhoon, ravaging everything in its way. All I could do was to hold her in my arms, so she didn’t fall apart.”
Source: A Beloved Sin
“It was the truth, and like any truth, it was powerful.”
Source: The Isle of the Lost
“It was the twenty-first century. I shouldn't have to date someone to stay relevant”
Source: Twisted Lies
“It was the twenty-first of June and Bitsy announced a Summer Solstice party.”
Source: The Gypsy Moth Summer
“It was the typical move of a stupid man who couldn’t control his hormones. This handicap is simple to explain. Man, unlike woman, has two primitive brains—the medulla oblongata and the baja oblongata.”
Source: Sierra Hotel: A Novel of the Vietnam War
“It was the typical paranoid experience [to hide coke]. As soon as I knew my hiding place, I thought the whole world knew it. I'd write clues to my hiding places in code, then forget the code and spend the rest of the day looking for my coke.”
“It was the ultimate irony. Hackers get into hacking because they don't want desk jobs -- but all hacking is a desk job.”
“It was the United States of America in the cold late spring of 1967, and the market was steady and the G.N.P. high and a great many articulate people seemed to have a sense of high social purpose and it might have been a spring of brave hopes and national promise, but it was not, and more and more people had the uneasy apprehension that it was not.”
“it was the United States which first established general suffrage for men upon the two principles that 'taxation without representation is tyranny' and that governments to be just should 'derive their consent from the governed.' The unanswerable logic of these two principles is responsible for the extension of suffrage to men and women the world over. In the United States, however, women are still taxed without 'representation' and still live under a government to which they have given no 'consent.”