S Quotes
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“someones married their everyones
laughed their cryings and did their dance
(sleep wake hope and then) they
said their nevers they slept their dream”
Source: 100 Selected Poems
“Someplace between apathy and anarchy is the stance of the thinking human being; he does embrace a cause, he does take a position, and can't allow it to become business as usual. Humanity is our business.”
“Someplace nice and quiet and away from the spaceport, I hope," Thalias said. "The first thing Yiv will probably assume is that we'll try to steal a ship."
"Indeed he will," Thrawn agreed.
"So where are we going?"
Thrawn leaned forward, giving her a smile around the edge of his dripping hood. "To the spaceport," he said. "To steal a ship.”
Source: Chaos Rising
“Somerset has a wonderful wildness about it - it hasn't been tamed. This is farming country, and there's a realness here - I love it.”
“Somerset Maugham ... wrote somewhere that "Nobody is any better than he ought to be."... I carried it along with me as a working philosophy, but I suppose that finally I would have to take exception to the thought ... or else the universe is just an elaborate clock.”
Source: THE DEER PARK
“Somerset Maugham said that it took at least six human beings to make one fictional character. That is true of landscape as well, I think. We have to make our landscapes, change streets, create new turnings, rebuild or tear down, change time, and even nature, if need be.”
“Somethin’ about the lad draws her to ‘im, just like somethin’ about her draws ‘im to ‘er. You understand?”
“No, not at all.” Ryder exhaled. “You say the word ‘him’ and ‘her’ so messed up, do you know that? The letter H is just completely disregarded.”
Source: Ryder
“Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.”
Source: The Thousandfold Thought: The Prince of Nothing, Book Three (The Prince of Nothing)
“Something a woman can do to make it a little easier for a man is to let him know in advance the outcome of the story and then go back and give the details. Avoid keeping him in suspense.”
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“Something about attitudes to women
"Vera did not reply. He had called her careless, was blaming her, passing judgment and in this he was no different to all other men: they had their way with women, but God forbid the woman they wanted to marry should be sullied. Even one who had been trapped...”
“Something about being projected on a 70 foot screen makes you more attractive and appealing to the opposite sex, which is pretty scary.”
“Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.”
“Something about being so close, yet not, is intoxicating.
Perhaps it's the anticipation of the possibility that's so exciting.”
Source: The Four Leaf
“Something about being told she couldn’t have him had revealed how much she wanted him.”
Source: Daindreth's Assassin
“Something about Bekka and Haylee reminded her of Candace's line between ingenious and insane. Ingenuity inspired their dreams, and insanity gave them the courage to pursue them. It was something Melody wanted for herself.”
Source: Monster High
“Something about breaking my own heart, time after time, made me sublime.”
Source: An Abundance of Apricots
“Something about Christmas decorations inspired delinquency.”
Source: The Wisdom of Perversity
“Something about family and trying to relate it to the movie with, 'Oh, if I was to have a child how many kids do I want?' And 'do I want a boy or a girl?' I didn't realize you could place orders, I honestly didn't realize it was like a drive-through, that you could talk to a little electronic voice.”
“Something about first love defies duplication. Before it, your heart is blank. Unwritten. After, the walls are left inscribed and graffitied. When it ends, no amount of scrubbing will purge the scrawled oaths and sketched images, but sooner or later, you find that there’s space for someone else, between the words and in the margins.”
Source: Where You Are
“Something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil.”
Source: So Far from God: A Novel
“Something about giving in without a fight felt wrong.”
“Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.”
“Something About Her by Stewart Stafford
Her cemetery chill touch,
Felt in porcelain hands,
Vacant heartbeat stolen,
Desert of smooth sand.
Her eyes were portals,
To a feral, scary land,
With no outlet or relief,
Automaton at her command.
Yes, break the spell now,
An eye blink from losing all,
Just a heave and it is broken,
New dawn beyond her thrall.
© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
“Something about her eyes or voice has always suggested the hint of a free spirit, trapped in a Peck and Peck cage, dreaming of making rude noises at public gatherings of Republicans.”
“Something about her suggested that her leisure activities included wrestling large woodland animals and banging bricks together.”
Source: The Name of the Star
“Something about him feels like forever…”
“Something about Israel was speaking to me, planting a seed of faith that would one day prove more fruitful than anything I’d ever harvest. It was the beginning of my most important journey, one I wouldn’t fully appreciate until I had far more to lose in this life than I had to gain.”
Source: The Secret Adoption: A Family Memoir
“Something about it could say something about himself. Where did that burning flame inside of him come from? His continuous grudge and his eagerness to feel resentment, how easy it was for him not only to like something, but love it as if his life depended on it? He needed to know the History. He needed certainties about questions he had about himself—whatever certainty it was. Maybe understanding where all of that came from would make it hurt less. He needed to know his truth.”
Source: Dona
“Something about making art has to do with overcoming things, giving us a clear opportunity for doing things in ways we have always known we should do them.”
Source: Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
“Something about me has always liked the drama and inconvience of bad weather. The worse the better, really.”
Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories
“Something about music urges us to engage with its larger context, beyond the piece of plastic it came on-it seems to be part of our genetic makeup that we can be so deeply moved by this art form. Music resonates in so many parts of the brain that we can't conceive of it being an isolated thing.”
“Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you're interested in being funny, New York is the place to go.”
“Something about perfection
disgusts me.”
Source: Poems
“Something about photography is tied to a very specific relationship with the material world. It doesn't have to be, but the way I practice it, it is. So there's an act of observation, but it's not an act of objective recording. It's about framing something and seeing it and understanding that it's relational.”
“Something about reproductive health makes politicians and local officials lose their reasoning faculties. State education officials and local school board members know that teen pregnancy is a huge problem, yet they often refuse to allow teaching to avoid it. Just eighteen states require schools to reach birth control, and only about half of American kids receive any classroom instruction in contraception before the first time they have sex, according to the Guttmacher Institute.”
Source: Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
“Something about seeking love through social media that leaves us feeling empty. Seeking an embrace that can only be made by God leaves us fetching for attention in weak people and desolate places.”
Source: Love Laws "Rules of Love and Relationship in the 21st Century
“Something about telling that story made my gut grow back together." What?" Oh, nothing. Just thinking out loud." That's who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of." The people who've been in your secret hiding places." The people you bite your thumb in front of." Hi." Hi." ..." ..." Wow. My first Lindsey." My second Colin." That was fun. Let's try it again." Sold." ..." ..." ...".”
“Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people last year alone.”
“Something about that whole process of building the structure of that game turned into a real kind of lightbulb moment for me as a writer.”
“Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.”
Source: The Night Circus
“Something about the crisp, cool air, the twinkling carnival lights, and the scent of deep-fried food provided the perfect atmosphere for reckless teenage abandon.”
Source: Our Chemical Hearts
“Something about the fact that an African American had, given the long sad history of our country, now become President - that was exhilarating.”
“Something about the floating club reminded him of Wonderland. Not Disney's Wonderland, either, but Wonderland according to Lewis Carroll: dark, sumptuous. Treacherous. It was the sort of place where anything could happen...and probably did. He had a feeling if a deranged, bloodthirsty monarch suddenly swept in and started demanding people's heads, no one would bat an eye.”
Source: Season Of The Witch
“Something about the gaping hole in the fabric of the cosmos gave him the chills. He leaned over the edge of the opening, expecting to find birds, or similar avian creations of the night’s sky.
Instead, he was met with a swarm of unspeakable horrors; winged, pitiful and grotesquely malformed, and to his great stupor, he noticed they had human faces and that they suffered. And as they poured out of the Well of Making, like children from the womb of the eternal feminine, these luciferin creatures spilled onto the world, shrieking in existential agony, for they knew the pain of their mortality.”
Source: The Underworld Rhapsody
“Something about the goat dancing made me want to cry.”
Source: Girl, Interrupted
“Something about the howling of a wolf took a man right out of his here and now and left him in a dark forest of the mind, running naked before the pack.”
Source: George R. R. Martin Starter Pack 4-Book Bundle: A Game of Thrones, Dreamsongs: Volume I, Fevre Dream, Armageddon Rag
“Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me feel that no matter what happens now, my life has been worth it. What a ride.”
“Something about the Judge Raymond Randolph murder case. Something was wrong. He could feel it deep in his bones, like a sliver buried under the skin.”
Source: Crime Scene at Cardwell Ranch
“Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone by, humorous anecdotes and divine revelation - endows the reader with the power of creating a story, and the listener with a sense of being present at the moment of creation.”
“Something about the time of year depressed him deeply. Overcast skies and cutting wind, leaves falling, dusk falling, dark too soon, night flying down before you are ready. It's a terror. It's a bareness of the soul. He hears the rustle of nuns. Here comes winter in the bone. We've set it loose on the land. There must be some song or poem, some folk magic we can use to ease this fear. Skelly Bone Pete. Here it is in the landscape and sky. We've set it loose. We've opened up the ground and here it is. He took Interstate 45 south. He didn't want them to kill Leon. He felt a saturating sense of death, a dread in the soft filling of his bones, the suckable part, approaching Galveston now.”
Source: Libra