S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slaver y is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said "On the line!" The Reconstruction said "Go!" I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and weep.”
“Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.”
Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
“Someone is always feeding fat off everything you don't know.”
“Someone is always fighting for something, and they're always fighting for something better. Now, how that gets done is the true question.”
“Someone is always going to try to knock you down and take your place. It is up to you to fight for what you want.”
“Someone is an ignoramus who would say that, 'Oh, we had three hurricanes this year. This proves that somehow the climate is warming.' The earth is 4.5 billion years old, and you're going to say that we had four hurricanes and so it proves a theory?”
“Someone is assigned to not only hear your heart's song but will strum your heart strings melodically. Listen with your heart.”
“Someone is dead.
Even the trees know it,
those poor old dancers who come on lewdly,
all pea-green scarfs and spine pole.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“Someone is digging your grave right now.”
“Someone is going to develop a plan that will take them into the future of their dreams. Let it be you.”
“Someone is going to figure out how to make this work and when they do, all the anti-gambling, over-regulating authoritarian governments will be exposed as emperors without clothes. It might not be obvious that this is even happening at first, since these systems are by definition stealthy affairs.”
“Someone is going to have to explain to me at some time how raising taxes on job-creators is going to create more jobs.”
“Someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.”
“Someone is going to make your product obsolete. Make sure it's you.”
“Someone is going to win and someone is going to lose. That's also what happens in almost every movie - someone is going to win and someone is going to lose.”
“Someone is here.
Someone unwanted.
Someone, not a guest.
A noise of footsteps, as subtle as a cat’s, comes. The Mesmerizer narrows his eyes in that direction. “Intruder,” he mutters, knowing the stranger can hear him. The Roar of Death Sonata stops. Maroc has sensed the intruder, too.”
Source: The Oldest Dance
“Someone is putting brandy in your bonbons, Grand Marnier in your breakfast jam, Kahlua in your ice cream, Scotch in your mustard and Wild Turkey in your cake.”
“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”
“Someone is spending their life and their passion and their ingenuity on something that's seemingly potentially trite. But it's what they're doing, and it's what's important to them and what's beautiful to them.”
“Someone is standing next to him, and as I near them and focus on the man, I’m left speechless. It's like he stepped off the pages of a men's fitness magazine, with muscle in places I didn't think muscle existed. His muscles have muscles. He's not terribly tall, but that's okay. Neither am I. But he's fit and tan and rippled gorgeousness. He stands out in this place that’s usually filled with space nerds or kids on field trips. I am immediately curious why he's here and why Richard is smiling awkwardly.”
Source: Stars Collide
“Someone isn't tough enough for cowardice.”
“Someone just broke into your house and they are looking for you…you don’t have a phone to call the police. Do you A. Go toward them w/a weapon of sorts to combat or B. Hide w/weapon of sorts until they find you?
I’m going straight toward them because the way my anxiety is set up, nobody puts baby in a corner! Sitting in a closet wouldn’t work for me. I’m shooting everything that moves.”
“Someone killed my Mother and my Father and my Sister?" "Yes, someone did." "A Man?" "A Man." "Which means," said Bod, "you're asking the wrong question." Silas raised an eyebrow. "How so?" "Well," said Bod. "If I go outside in the world, the question isn't who will keep me safe from him?" "No?" "No. It's who will keep him safe from me?”
“Someone knocked me down; I pushed Brinker over a small slope; someone was trying to tackle me from behind. Everywhere there was the smell of vitality in clothes, the vital something in wool and flannel and corduroy which spring releases. I had forgotten that this existed, this smell which instead of the first robin, or the first bud or leaf, means to me that spring has come. I had always welcomed vitality and energy and warmth radiating from thick and sturdy winter clothes. It made me happy, but I kept wondering about next spring, about whether khaki, or suntans or whatever the uniform of the season was, had this aura of promise in it. I felt fairly sure it didn't.”
“Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory.”
“Someone left the cake out in the rain”
“Someone left the cake out in the rain. I don't think that I can take it, cause it took so long to bake it, and I'll never have that recipe again. Oh, no.”
“Someone like Billie Jean King is completely my idol.”
“Someone like him could never be content staying at home and watching a movie on the couch.”
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
“Someone like Jay-Z does have a timeless quality, but it's much different than ours. You can look back at something like "At the Hop" by Danny and the Juniors or the music that was on American Bandstand in the 1950s-'60s.”
“Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.”
“Someone like John Prine can write a song that tears into your soul, turn it over, and write a song that makes you laugh and feel light as a feather. With someone like him, you're getting a real picture of a person, a real expression.”
“Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other.”
“Someone like me cares about others, but I guess you wouldn't know anything about that.”
Source: The Spunky Girl & Her Popular Player
“Someone like me shouldnt be diagnosed with breast cancer, thats what was going through my mind. I wasnt thinking about a diagnosis. I was just doing what I was supposed to do, which was staying on top of my mammograms. It was a shock.”
“Someone like Mozart moves from Salzburg to Vienna, where all of the sudden he finds this musical city that is not only asking for music, it's demanding music of him.”
“Someone like myself is not from one place. I am in total identification with the New York, French, and Palestine experience and do not stop at the borders of identity.”
“Someone like myself, who claimed to be a real madman, living and organized with a Pythagorean precision.”
“Someone like Russell Crowe is questioned for his passion for music, and whatever he does, music is just in his heart and soul. All he wants to do is music.”
“Someone like Vincent Price or somebody like Christopher Lee, they never won an award, and it doesn't matter. They're cool.”
“Someone like you makes the sun shine brighter. Someone like you makes a sigh half a smile. Someone like you makes my troubles much lighter. Someone like you make life seem worthwhile.”
“Someone loves me!
I can't explain
Otherwise
All this hate around me;
All this jealousy
To make me
Something else
From what I really am
Someone Loves Me”
Source: Rose: Future Heart
“Someone loves us all.”
“Someone made a grievous mistake when summer was created; no novitiate or god in their right mind would make a season akin to hell on purpose.
Someone should be fired.”
Source: I Hate Summer: My tribulations with seasonal depression, anxiety, plumbers, spiders, neighbours, and the world.
“Someone may have all the technical knowledge, scientific intellect and business know-how but when he/she decides to choose laziness, excuses, procrastination, complaining and other bad attitudes, his/her relevance is meaningless.”
Source: The Great Hand Book of Quotes
“Someone may have used an ingenious array of flavorful and rich words to explain something. However, that does not necessarily mean that they said anything.”
“Someone may touch our heart even just for a second.
But it may leave our soul stirred for a lifetime.”
Source: Your Light Is The Key
“Someone maybe be able to meditate well, but if they can't manifest that meditation in just good common sense by loving and being king to those who are around them, then I can't say they're spiritually developed.”
“Someone mentioned that the Johnny Cash songs I was practicing were appropriate for Dennis. I guess that's lucky--because those are the only Johnny Cash songs I know.”
Source: Future Widow: Losing My Husband, Saving My Family, and Finding My Voice
“Someone mentioned your name today,
took me down memory lane,
to a time very much younger,
a time more pure, more sane.”
Source: Lost in a Quatrain