S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes I think I disguise myself as a teacher in order to make the pictures I need to see.”
“Sometimes I think I don't have much choice in the matter. It's just what happens, and I'm following my instincts the whole time.”
“Sometimes I think I have the best job in the world.”
“Sometimes I think I know everything, but I also underestimate what God really is.”
“Sometimes I think I live in a gap between two worlds, one world that I have to wake up to, be adherent of the rules and live in a place that is dictated by others. A place I sometimes feel the fear of aging and dying before I have figured out what it is I am here to do.
That other world is sweet, fresh and misty, inviting adventure into the unknown, melding ancient wisdom with new discovery; the sunlight turning into moonlight and the spell of eternal life is never broken.
Perhaps in that gap I should repair the forgotten bridge from one side to the other, but truth be told, I don't want to. I don't want to because I don't have the energy to fix what is broken within. I am a wild, wandering nomad, I belong everywhere and nowhere all at the same time, and in that gap between worlds, I am free.”
“Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.”
Source: Dragon Bones
“Sometimes I think I look like I've had facial reconstructive surgery. Like after burns.”
“Sometimes I think I'm near the end of my energy for living. I plot to travel to another world because this one seems too decimated by the white men who wanted money and skin, too dangerous to navigate because of the sentinels still roaming, raping, and gouging out the earth to maintain power.”
Source: White Magic
“Sometimes I think I might be the last human on earth.”
Source: The 5th Wave
“Sometimes I think I might insult people by being openly flirtatious, then snatching it back.”
“Sometimes I think I might not have written 'The Age of Miracles' if I hadn't grown up in California, if I hadn't been exposed to its very particular blend of beauty and disaster, of danger and denial.”
“Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me...only he's an imbecile.”
“Sometimes I think,
I need a spare heart to feel
all the things I feel.”
Source: A Thousand Flamingos
“Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?”
“Sometimes I think I should get another job, and do this only for its own purpose. It's important to separate creative expression from making money.”
“Sometimes I think I should just buy a blow-up party doll. Same level of intelligence, plastic, and full of air. The problem is, I'd probably fall in love.”
Source: The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star
“Sometimes I think I shouldn't explain much about my work because people will just feel what they feel when they see it. They'll love it or hate it or enjoy it on their own, like how I've looked at abstract paintings of other artists and cried or felt happy because I've felt, "Wow, I've lived that, I've understood that."”
“Sometimes I think I spend my whole life trying to figure out where I fit in.”
“Sometimes I think I spent forever waiting for you,' he says. 'My whole life, I've never had someone like you. Someone who doesn't have to be there, but is anyway. Someone who wants to just ... be with me because they want me. For me. Not because I'm your brother or your kid or anything, but because you choose me.”
Source: But I Love Him
“Sometimes I think I take on a lot of work but that's me.”
“Sometimes I think...I think I was never truly alive until I met you.”
Source: Immortal Consequences
“Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness”
“Sometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida, swamped by incongruity and paradox, and I have to start all over again.”
Source: The Orchid Thief
“Sometimes I think I want to get 'hair and make up' every day, but that's just not possible.”
“Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass.”
“Sometimes I think I was more in control of my life years and years ago, and yet one should make progress; one should learn more every year and become…well, if not happier, then calmer and more able to handle your problems. But I’m not. Sometimes I just seem to make more problems for myself. I do. It makes me feel I haven’t grown up as much as I should have by now.”
“Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.”
Source: The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places
“Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.”
Source: A Killing Frost
“Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.”
Source: A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by
“Sometimes I think I'm a nihilist because it doesn't matter, none of this matters. We're all following the will of some unknowable higher power, probably the stars manipulating our cellular magnets. We think we have all this agency, but do we? Do we really? Can you choose to be brave when you were born a coward? Can we be deprogrammed from the brainwashing that we grew up in? I think we can, but I think we need a lot of help.”
“Sometimes I think I'm a one-trick pony because I'm not very inventive about new ways of telling stories.”
“Sometimes I think I'm a really interesting guy.”
“Sometimes I think I'm liquefying like an old Camembert.”
“Sometimes I think I'm more comfortable onstage than I am in my own room. When I get onstage, it's kind of like your chance to let go and be something that you're not maybe. It's your time to dream.”
“Sometimes I think I'm not normal, and I get weirder and weirder everyday.”
“Sometimes I think I'm real predictable to myself and other times... you always wonder, Is this really what I wanted to do? Did I make a mistake? Should I be doing something else?”
“Sometimes I think I've figured out some order in the universe, but then I find myself in Florida”
Source: The Orchid Thief
“Sometimes I think if I could do all the things that I stopped doing, meet all the friends that I left due to time, money and other unavoidable circumstances. Continue all my passions at least once. Then my life would be more justified than today. Then I could be finally at peace at the time I finally leave this world”
“Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been.”
“Sometimes I think if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn.”
Source: The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House
“Sometimes I think if we didn’t have these problems the whole world would stop spinning on her axis, we’d all stop spinning on our axises, axes, or whatever you want to call them, and then we’d have to settle into the nasty business of finding a way to be happy.”
Source: Ghosts of Nagasaki: Silence
“Sometimes I think if you didn't have me, there wouldn't be a single person in the world who really understood you...”
Source: Captain America: Winter Soldier - Ultimate Collection
“Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.”
Source: The Novels of Gillian Flynn: Sharp Objects, Dark Places
“Sometimes I think it'd be better if you didn't write about us. Then people wouldn't be so afraid. No one talks about cancer in the home of a person who's sick with it. And if someone is in jail with a life sentence, no one mentions that, either.”
Source: Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
“Sometimes I think it is ... frustration with life as it is lived day to day that compels me to write such long letters to people who seldom reply in kind, if indeed they reply at all. Somehow by compressing and editing the events of my life, I infuse them with a dramatic intensity totally lacking at the time, but oddly enough I find that years later what I remember is not the event as I lived it but as I described it in a letter.”
Source: A Woman of Independent Means
“Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so.”
Source: The Sirens of Titan
“Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic.”
Source: The Sirens of Titan
“Sometimes I think it is my fate to live in the wreckage and confusion of crumbling houses.”
Source: By the Sea
“Sometimes I think it is my mission to bring faith to the faithless, and doubt to the faithful.”
“Sometimes I think it's best to say nothing at all, silence cannot be misquoted.”
Source: Sometimes I Lie