S Quotes
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“Something else happened at that time which is worth mentioning here. One of the questions the rabbinical students and I discussed at some length was why it is that in academic things, such as theoretical physics, there is a higher proportion of Jewish kids than their proportion in the general population. The rabbinical students thought the reason was that the Jews have a history of respecting learning: They respect their rabbis, who are really teachers, and they respect education. The Jews pass on this tradition in their families all the time, so that if a boy is a good student, it’s as good as, if not better than, being a good football player.
It was the same afternoon that I was reminded how true it is. I was invited to one of the rabbinical students’ home, and he introduced me to his mother, who had just come back from Washington, D.C. She clapped her hands together, in ecstasy, and said, “Oh! My day is complete. Today I met a general, and a professor!”
I realized that there are not many people who think it’s just as important, and just as nice, to meet a professor as to meet a general. So I guess there’s something in what they said.”
Source: "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
“Something else," he told Atkins. He stood with his nose an inch away from the sergeant's, hands stuffed deep in the pockets of his coat. "What does Lucifer mean?"
"Light Bearer."
"And what is the stuff of the universe?"
"Energy."
"What is energy's commonest form?"
"Light."
"I know." And with that, the detective walked away, listing slowly through the squad room and down the stairs. He didn't come back.”
Source: Legion
“Something else is hurting you—that’s why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can’t think.”
Source: Tales of Ordinary Madness
“Something else that makes me angry is that I got too old to prostitute myself. I wasn't going to anyway but it was there, it was my Z plan.”
Source: Why Did I Ever
“Something else was different when we were young: our parents were outdoors. I’m not saying they were joining health clubs and things of that sort, but they were out of the house, out on the porch, talking to neighbors. As far as physical fitness goes, today’s kids are the sorriest generation in the history of the United States. Their parents may be out jogging, but the kids just aren’t outside.”
Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
“Something emerged from the air and slumped on the concrete floor behind Mosquera. The men near the table recoiled in horror. One gasped and stepped backwards, falling over a chair with a crash. Two others crossed themselves. Lock moved the fly so he could see past Mosquera. His blood ran cold. The lumpy mass on the floor looked as though the Devil himself had grabbed Miguel, squashed and scrambled his skin, muscles and bones, and dropped the mess back on the concrete. Like everybody else in the room, Lock was in shock. People didn’t die in teleportation, but the evidence was in front of him. What on earth had Mosquera used?”
Source: The Starbirth Assignment: Shifter
“Something evil dwells in this castle, something wicked enough to make the stars quake.”
“Something extraordinary is going to happen if you start hiking. The mountains will start shifting and offer you an extraordinary sense of understanding.”
Source: Coming to Grips with the Mountains and Valleys of This World
“Something extraordinary is happening. Do you sense it? Truly, as obedience and morality decline in the world, the Lord is sending more exceptional spirits to earth. As a body they excel the average capacity of their forebears. Their potential for personal growth and positive contribution is enormous.”
“Something feels funny. I must be thinking too hard.”
“Something feels weird," he told Laura. That wasn't the first thing he said to her. The first thing was "I love you," because it's a good thing to say if you can mean it, and Shadow did.”
Source: American Gods: The Tenth Anniversary Edition: A Novel
“Something fell and George was off, barking like a mad dog. What if whoever is back there hurts him?
Oh. My. Goodness. If I do die, I can do so happily now. That man’s eyes were so blue—and I swore they changed color.
“I made a huge mistake,” Jake said as he took the leash off of George. “I said p-i-z-z-a out loud. And he took off at a fast jog all the way back here from the park right through Ms. Helen’s sprinklers down the street.”
And then nothing…no words entered my brain. I sniffed and quickly nodded, like I was about to cry. “Okay. Right. Amen.”
Then I forced myself to slow down and not run back to my seat.”
Source: A Case for the Yarn Maker
“Something filled the Earl’s eyes-not fury, precisely, or desperation, but whatever it was the player’s part of Will’s mind saw it and recognized it as motivation. And saw in that silence the thing Salisbury wouldn’t say. James is a terrible king.”
Source: Hell and Earth
“Something flickers across his bloodshot eyes. Pain.”
Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy
“Something for herself. Something to share. A way to belong. She learned to trade in kindness and discovered the tremendous value in small mercies and selfless giving. The more she gave, the more she seemed to have. It was the best sort of magic.”
“Something for nothing given to one group is nothing for something taken from another.”
“Something fundamental about the myth of the Jew has resurfaced.”
“Something fundamental changes when people begin to ask questions together. The questions create more of a learning conversation than the normal stale debate about problems.”
“Something fundraisers (and potential investors alike) often fail to realize: a 'return' does not need to be of a financial nature!”
Source: T.R.U.S.T.: How Psychology and a Simple 5-Letter Acronym Will Help You Raise the Money You Need, Recruit the Team You Want, & Engender the Support You Crave
“Something funny always happens in every show in the UK and I genuinely love touring the UK because it's where I'm from. I just get a warm feeling when I'm home.”
“Something gets lost when you translate. It's hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.”
“Something girls never understood about poker night. The real point of the card play was to razz. Razzing calls forth unbridled farm-boy humour, earthy by some standards. The best quip involves belittling someone else's penis, or turning it back on the sayer, or both.”
Source: Paris in April
“Something given, something taken away. Does it always have to work like that?”
Source: Just One Year
“Something goes still inside Lily, as if her heart took a breath before it continued beating.”
Source: All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages
“Something goes wrong, I yell at them -'Fix it'- whether it's their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.”
“Something good always happens at 4:20 for me.”
“Something good comes out of every crisis.”
“Something good happened to my writing when I stopped being afraid to do something simple, for the fear that people might think I couldn't do something more complex. Don't be confused by the word simple. Simple is not easy, it is clear voiced, and fearlessly elegant.”
“Something good happens to you, and you let off a different energy that attracts other good things.”
Source: Killing Monica
“Something good is a frontier; something better is also a frontier and something excellent is just another frontier! You can always go beyond these frontiers! And so what is excellent? Just a frontier!”
“Something GOOD is going to happen to you today.”
Source: Unleashing the Power of Praying in the Spirit
“Something good made something bad possible (though not inevitable). Humans, however, didn't use their freedom well. Instead of using it to honor God in friendship, they used it to rebel.”
“Something good was happening. My life was rising from the ashes, and the sight of it left me feeling something like hopeful.”
Source: The Bright Side of Disaster: A Novel
“Something good will come out of all things yet — And it will be golden and eternal just like that.”
“something good will come out of that disgrace, pain, hopelessness, troubles and cries. It's happening right now. Not tomorrow.”
“Something got screwed up in terms of your priorities if you think it's more important to get rid of the dividend tax than it is to take care of 11 million kids.”
“Something great is about to happen to me: I'm about to love somebody very much.”
Source: Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954
“Something greater than me was happening. And yet, it was happening to me.”
Source: My Lucky Life in and Out of Show Business
“Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade”
“Something greater than wealth, grander even than fame — that manhood, character, stand for success, and that nothing else really does.”
“Something had been buried that was not yet dead.”
Source: Birdsong
“Something had changed in me, even if I didn't know what it was just yet. All I could think was that I felt alive for the first time.”
Source: Dreamland
“Something had gone amiss with men, and the weak ones were dangerous.”
“Something had lubricated us. Something had washed us clean. I understood, and at the same minute I understood that that they all understood, too. Hate had passed away, and in its place was the other word that's just as big. ("Golden Baby")”
“Something had shifted between us, faintly, but the change was almost palpable. Our friendship had sat lightly between us, an ephemeral thing, without weight or gravity. Once, in the Boboli Gardens, under the shadow of a cypress tree on an achingly beautiful October afternoon, he had kissed me, a solemnly sweet and respectful kiss. But weeks had passed and we had not spoken of it. I had attributed it to the sunlight, shimmering gold like Danaë's shower, and had pressed it into the scrapbook of memory, to be taken out and admired now and then, but not to be dwelled upon too seriously. Perhaps I had been mistaken.”
Source: Silent in the Sanctuary
“Something had to be done fast. A letter: that was the answer. As many lawyers do when nursing a grievance, Nusbaum knew it was important to get their anger down into writing. As Cohen and the investment bankers shouted and cursed around him, he began dictating”
Source: Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
“Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. They were under the heel of the French... and they got together and swore a pact to the devil.”
“Something happened during Matt's talk. When I sat down I was one person, but by the time he was done, I was someone else. Someone changed. Someone new. Someone I didn't know. My arms were covered in gooseflesh. My stomach was doing this buoyant, top-of-the-roller-coaster thing. Suddenly I wanted to be pretty. I wanted guys to think I was pretty. In particular, I wanted this guy to think I was pretty...”
“Something happened here. A change. Stealthy, creeping, slow. Like the way the desert is gradually covering the plain, one grain of sand at a time. It took place without us even noticing, so that the moment when we might have resisted passed unremarked.”
Source: Ancestor Stones
“Something happened here. I know it, and so do you. I will find out what, when, and to whom. Apparently, I'll have to find out the hard way, but I'll find out . . .”
Source: Betrayal of Faith