S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Something that is very difficult to translate is the humor.”
“Something that is yours forever is never precious”
Source: My Name Is Asher Lev
“Something that just came out of me. It was a bit of mischief.”
“Something that looks as reasonable truth is difficult to fight. Not even with truth. People sometimes have to use reasonable lies to defend the truth. But I believe that if one is able to fight lies with truth and not with lies then one could experience the absolute justice in favor of one.”
Source: The Impossible Proof Of Knowing Nothing
“Something that looks like a protocol but does not accomplish a task is not a protocol—it’s a waste of time.”
Source: Applied cryptography: protocols, algorithms, and source code in C
“Something that never happens anywhere at any time.”
“Something that’s bothered me for a while now is the current profligacy in YA culture of Team Boy 1 vs Team Boy 2 fangirling. [...] Despite the fact that I have no objection to shipping, this particular species of team-choosing troubled me, though I had difficulty understanding why. Then I saw it applied to Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games trilogy – Team Peeta vs Team Gale – and all of a sudden it hit me that anyone who thought romance and love-triangles were the main event in that series had utterly missed the point. Sure, those elements are present in the story, but they aren’t anywhere near being the bones of it, because The Hunger Games, more than anything else, is about war, survival, politics, propaganda and power. Seeing such a strong, raw narrative reduced to a single vapid argument – which boy is cuter? – made me physically angry.
So, look. People read different books for different reasons. The thing I love about a story are not necessarily the things you love, and vice versa. But riddle me this: are the readers of these series really so excited, so thrilled by the prospect of choosing! between! two! different! boys! that they have to boil entire narratives down to a binary equation based on male physical perfection and, if we’re very lucky, chivalrous behaviour? While feminism most certainly champions the right of women to chose their own partners, it also supports them to choose things besides men, or to postpone the question of partnership in favour of other pursuits – knowledge, for instance. Adventure. Careers. Wild dancing. Fun. Friendship. Travel. Glorious mayhem. And while, as a woman now happily entering her fourth year of marriage, I’d be the last person on Earth to suggest that male companionship is inimical to any of those things, what’s starting to bother me is the comparative dearth of YA stories which aren’t, in some way, shape or form, focussed on Girls Getting Boyfriends, and particularly Hot Immortal Or Magical Boyfriends Whom They Will Love For All Eternity.
Blog post: Love Team Freezer”
“Something that simply mystifies me.”
“Something that sounded like an insect droned past Ralph’s ear. He had an idea it was a .45-caliber bug. Better hurry up, sweetheart, Carolyn advised. When bullets hit you on this level they kill you, remember?”
Source: Insomnia
“Something that trash for me, might be diamond for you.”
“Something that was instilled in me by my parents at a very young age is that there is no happy life without a life of service.”
“Something that was instilled in me by my parents at a very young age is that there is no happy life without a life of service. Over the course of my career, I've been fortunate to always encounter others who share that philosophy.”
“Something that we call developing the third eye in others. The eye is that people have intention when they're interacting, and often don't realize that there is an impact for everything that they do. The littlest thing, from scratching their head back here. This is, universally, "I don't understand what you said." That's what the scratch behind the ear means. If we know that, it's a whole other level. I could go back and say, "Let me do this again, because I'm seeing that it's not fully registering." We should be teaching these to people, is what I'm saying.”
“Something that weighs you down, conversely, might push you up.”
“Something that works for one person could be a disadvantage to another.”
“Something that you can't play in your kitchen is rap. It is done in your neighbour's kitchen.”
“Something that you feel will find its own form.”
Source: The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished, & Newly Translated Writings
“Something that you should take particular notice of is the fact that the best scripts have very few explanatory passages. Adding explanation to the descriptive passages of a screenplay is the most dangerous trap you can fall into. It’s easy to explain the psychological state of a character at a particular moment, but it’s very difficult to describe it through the delicate nuances of action and dialogue. Yet it is not impossible.”
“Something that's fun for me is a challenge. When you have a challenge and you take on that challenge and succeed, that's the best feeling.”
“Something that's happened recently is that I don't beat myself up about stuff.”
“Something that's of common interest to every man, woman and child on the planet must surely be the notion of 'Peace'. Without 'Peace' we cannot survive. Valentine's Day is on the 14 February. Christmas Day is on the 25 December. Peace Day has been established by the United Nations on the 21 September, and the whole world is invited to participate.”
“Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.”
“Something that's unsustainable, like a dysfunctional relationship, can go on longer than you expect, and then end faster and messier than you think.”
“Something the committee had not done in 50 years. Jeff Sessions is now the Chairman of the Committee that rejected him.”
“Something there is in cyberspace that doesn't love an apostrophe.”
Source: Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
“Something there is more immortal even than the stars.”
Source: Passage to India
“Something there is moves me to love, and I Do know I love, but know not how, nor why.”
Source: Songs and other poems
“Something there is that doesn't love a wall, and wants it down.”
“Something therefore always remains and sticks from the most imprudent of lies, a fact which all bodies and individuals concerned in the art of lying in this world know only too well, and therefore they stop at nothing to achieve this end.”
“something they call the american dream sure
we still believe in it i guess an earth man
in the tavern said irregardless of the some
times night mare facts we always try to double
talk our way around and its okay the dreams
okay and means whats good could be a damn sight
better means every body in the good old u s a
should have the chance to get ahead or at least
should have three squares a day as for myself
i do okay”
Source: Collected Poems
“Something they seem to omit to mention in Boston AA when you're new and out of your skull with desperation and ready to eliminate your map and they tell you how it'll all get better and better as you abstain and recover: they somehow omit to mention that the way it gets better and you get better is through pain. Not around pain, or in spite of it.”
Source: Infinite Jest
“Something they seem to omit to mention in Boston AA when you're new and out of your skull with desperation and ready to eliminate your map and they tell you how it'll all get better and better as you abstain and recover: they somehow omit to mention that the way it gets better and you get better is through pain. Not around pain, or in spite of it. They leave this out, talking instead about Gratitude and Release from Compulsion. There's serious pain in being sober, though, you find out, after time. Then now that you're clean and don't even much want Substances and feeling like you want to both cry and stomp somebody into goo with pain, these Boston AAs start in on telling you you're right where you're supposed to be and telling you to remember the pointless pain of active addiction and telling you that at least this sober pain now has a purpose. At least this pain means you're going somewhere, they say, instead of the repetitive gerbil-wheel of addictive pain.
They neglect to tell you that after the urge to get high magically vanishes and you've been Substanceless for maybe six or eight months, you'll begin to start to 'Get In Touch' with why it was that you used Substances in the first place. You'll start to feel why it was you got dependent on what was, when you get right down to it, an anesthetic. 'Getting In Touch With Your Feelings' is another quilted-sampler-type cliche that ends up masking something ghastly deep and real, it turns out. [178: A more abstract but truer epigram that White Flaggers with a lot of sober time sometimes change this to goes something like: 'Don't worry about getting in touch with your feelings, they'll get in touch with you.’]
It starts to turn out that the vapider the AA cliche, the sharper the canines of the real truth it covers.”
Source: Infinite Jest
“Something this good was worth dying for.”
Source: Acid Rain
“Something to forgive is a purer joy than geometry.”
Source: Free Fall
“Something to keep in mind - it’s raining lightly. The infield could be very wet on ground balls.”
“Something to remember on your birthday..Forget the past, it can't be changed..And, forget the present because I didn't get you one.”
“Something to remember, that: cats for missiles.”
Source: Titus Groan
“Something to think about: If you fish the wrong fly long and hard enough, it will sooner or later become the right fly.”
“Something told him that something was coming to an end. Not the world, exactly. Just the summer. There would be other summers, but there would never be one like this. Ever again.”
“Something told the wild geese
It was time to go.
Though the fields lay golden
Something whispered, "snow."
Leaves were green and stirring,
Berries, luster-glossed,
But beneath warm feathers
Something cautioned, "frost."
All the sagging orchards
Steamed with amber spice
But each wild breast stiffened
At remembered ice.
Something told the wild geese
It was time to fly-
Summer sun was on their wings,
Winter in their cry.”
Source: Branches Green
“Something touched me deep inside The day the music died.”
“Something tugged inside him. A flutter of unease.
Do you sing? Those had been her first words to him, the day she had bought him.
A band of nausea circled Arin’s throat, just as it had when she had asked him that question, in part for the same reason.
She’d had no trace of an accent. She had spoken in perfect, natural, mother-taught Herrani.”
Source: The Winner's Kiss
“Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.”
Source: Thus spake Zarathustra
“Something unexpected seemed to clear away between us, and, for a second, it seemed there was absolutely no difference in age between us, just two men kissing, and even this seemed to dissolve, as I began to feel we were not even two men, just two beings.”
Source: Call Me by Your Name
“Something unfathomable lies behind every thought ... something for which there aren't any words.”
“Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.”
Source: The nature of the physical world
“Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)
“Something unpronounceable followed by a long silence points out my life is becoming a landscape.”
Source: The Adamant
“Something untoward was happening to middle-class American women, an undercurrent of i change was seeping through heir ideas about duties and obligations as mothers, eroding their desire to conform to madonna-like models of unconditional devotion to the young child to adapt a more managerial concept of mother as coordinator and motivator of her child's activities and interests.”
Source: Mother Mirror: How a Generation of Women Is Changing Motherhood in America
“Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are."
[Facebook post, August 31, 2013]”