S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes I say philosophers should be at the table because they're the only people who know that they're not going to walk away with big money to support their research or to fund their crackpot solutions.”
“Sometimes I say some things people may think are just outlandish, but I'm going to have the last laugh.”
“Sometimes I say stuff to relate to people. It just really depends, because you don't have to be one type of artist and talk about one thing.”
“Sometimes I say stupid things. Sometimes I’m unaware. Sometimes I’ll read you wrong. I’m sorry”
“Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in it, to be balanced on it. If I can produce a great chair, even better. But above all I have to make sure that it has four stable feet.”
“Sometimes I say things in interviews and then I see them in print and I think, "What an asshole."”
“Sometimes I say things that I can't believe came out of my mouth. Or I won't mean something and it will come out completely nonsensical.”
“Sometimes I say things that I think are obviously sarcastic and people take them quite literally.”
“Sometimes I say to my students, "We get to come and listen to our favorite recordings and try to learn from them and emulate that and hopefully we can inspire other people the way we've been inspired."”
“Sometimes I say to myself, 'Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award', although I'm not that bothered.”
“Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why don't you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac.”
“Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn't have dared start. I started very - not innocent, but naïve in a way.”
“Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters.”
“Sometimes I scare myself with how quickly I can come up with lies.”
Source: The Bucket List to Mend a Broken Heart
“Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint... and it's just a lot of inert matter, inert paint. Then I look back at the canvas, and it's not inert - it's active, moving and living.”
“Sometimes I screw up in the game, I miss a shot or I miss a rebound, and I fight myself. I am like, 'Why I miss that shot? Come on, what are you doing?' I am fighting myself.”
“Sometimes I see a bird fly by and I feel jealous. But then other times I see a bird fly into a closed window and I feel laughing.”
“Sometimes I see him as just another person, and sometimes I feel the sight of him in my gut, like a deep ache.”
“Sometimes I see it [a foul by an Arsenal player], but I say that I didn’t see it to protect the players and because I could not find any rational explanation for what they did.”
“Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Both are impure situations, and I prefer neither. At every point in nature there is something to see. My work contains similar possibilities for the changing focus of the eye.”
Source: Jasper Johns: A Retrospective
“Sometimes I see me dead in the rain.”
Source: franny and zooey
“Sometimes I see movies and I get almost angry - because I'm like, I can never make that movie. It stems from a jealousy, but from a good kind of jealousy. It's inspirational.”
“Sometimes I see my students, especially the ones with a gift for the lyrical, reaching far outside the realm of their own experience for language and images. I understand this impulse. We think, in the beginning, that striking exotic words together will create something entirely new. That we must be worldly in our vocabulary. We idolize the styles of other writers and don't trust or perhaps yet know our own.”
“Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness. And I like the whole truth, but there are nights I only need forgiveness.”
“Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue.”
Source: The End of the Affair
“Sometimes I see people at the supermarket or somewhere else, smiling and cheerfully making small talk with strangers and not looking tense or uncomfortable at all, and i just want to go up and ask them how they do it. How did they manage to do everything they need to do and go out in the world and be human without feeling the weight of it all questioning them into oblivion”
Source: Queens of Geek
“Sometimes I see people finish a film and they go, "Yeah, that was good. Where are we going to eat?"”
“Sometimes I see players that think, and you can tell they're thinking of the next phrase to play or the next thing to do, the next little cute trick, and that's sad, man, you know. That's not makin' music; that's puttin' together puzzles, you know. Music should flow from you and it should be a force; it should be feeling, all feeling, man.”
“Sometimes I see really skinny girls. They may look great, but...they're not happy. Have a cupcake.”
“Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.”
Source: Underworld: A Novel
“Sometimes I see the sadness in you, the same sadness that's in me. It's in the way you sigh and stare and hang your head. It's in the way you never wholly let your guard down and take the world I've given you for granted. My sadness isn't a way I feel but a thing trapped inside the walls of my flesh, like a smog. It takes the sheen off everything. It rolls the world in soot. It saps the power from my limbs and presses my back into a stoop.”
Source: Spill Simmer Falter Wither
“Sometimes I see the world for how f-ked up it really is. I tell myself I'll be the one to make a change in it. I could die tonight; not make it to the sunrise, then I couldn't hear the pain in it.”
“Sometimes I see things, I think. Out of the corner of my eye, taunting me, and then it’s gone. And dreams. Such horrible dreams. What if something terrible happened to me? What if I am damaged?" The rain is a cool kiss on my sleeve as I link my arm with hers. "We’re all damaged somehow.”
Source: The Gemma Doyle Trilogy
“Sometimes I see where I want to take the song and wind up at the end and come back to the beginning. I don't miss nothing and everything is good. Everything I thought of is incorporated in it.”
“Sometimes I see you in a dream
Sometimes I hear your voice in the crowd
Sometimes out of the blue, your memory falls on me
I want to ease the pain
let the tears dry
accept your absence
say goodbye.”
“Sometimes I seem to be two people. One who does not paint and one who does. The one who does not paint assumes that the one who does can paint anything. The one who is the painter sometimes finds it difficult to live up to that faith.”
“Sometimes I sense that I have lost an intensity of feeling along with the moments of lacerating despair, I have greedily swapped them for ordinary life. That may sound dull, but I tell you it is sweet. It is not caviar I crave, but clean sheets and hot soup.”
Source: Antidepressants
“Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head.”
“Sometimes I shake hands with the devil, sometimes I am the devil myself. If you are crooked to the hypocrites for people, the end does justify the means quite well.”
Source: Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth
“Sometimes I shock myself with the smart I say & do. Then there are times where I try to get out of the car with my seat belt still on.”
“Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know.”
Source: Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy
“Sometimes, I shut my mouth in order to communicate directly with my soul. You can give it a try too!”
“Sometimes I shut up cause I'm afraid I don't have anything interesting to tell anyway”
“Sometimes I sing along in the car, if something good is playing like Marvin Gaye.”
“Sometimes I sing and dance around the house in my underwear. Doesn't make me Madonna. Never will.”
“Sometimes I sing very honestly, really as moving as possible.”
“Sometimes I sit alone under the stars and think of the galaxies inside my heart and truly wonder if anyone will ever want to make sense of all that I am”
“Sometimes I sit and look at life from a different angle.”
“Sometimes I sit and stare out at the people walking by, wondering if they’ve felt as I’ve felt, trapped, alone, but guiltily content in the knowledge that I will never know another’s thoughts, and therefore can feel special due to my unique loneliness.”
Source: Timeless: A Novel
“Sometimes I sit and think and other times I just sit.”