S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes there's a disjoint between what works on the page and what works with visual story telling.”
“Sometimes there's a general arc that you want to try and get better the longer you do something.”
“Sometimes there's a lot of tangents because I forget what I'm going to say so much. Sometimes there's very little tangents and stuff for some reason, and then some nights it's all tangents and I can't find my way, and then sometimes I wind up just talking about something completely extemporaneously and then never mention it again ever. It's just completely different.”
“Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.”
“Sometimes there's a sort of tear in the veil, and there are people who live in more than one dimension.”
“Sometimes there's a tackiness about Route 66 that out-tacks any tackiness I've ever seen anywhere else. And the Meramec Caverns are the pinnacle of that tack.”
“Sometimes there's a vacuum that has to be covered.”
“Sometimes there's just no way to hold back the river.”
Source: The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition
“Sometimes there's kind of an "ick" factor around talking about anything about gay sexuality, for certain readers.”
“Sometimes there's luck,
When there is you stock up on it
and wait for the other times”
“Sometimes there's more important things in life than being in the ring, like family, like us, & being in love.”
“Sometimes there's no point in giving up.”
“Sometimes there's no warning. Nothing at all.”
“Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.”
Source: The Fox Inheritance
“Sometimes there's not a direct transfer of skills from business to government, but sometimes what happened in business would be really bad for government.”
“Sometimes there's nothing but Sundays for weeks on end. Why can't they move Sunday to the middle of the week so you could put it in the OUT tray on your desk?”
Source: The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz
“sometimes there's nothing to say about death.”
“Sometimes there's nothing you can do. [...] Sometimes they don't have enough to fight with.”
Source: Briar's Book
“Sometimes there's one person in the audience laughing hysterically, and it's so much fun. You end up playing the entire play to them.”
“Sometimes there's something that you need a few takes to get it and if it takes 15 takes, it takes 15 takes. It really depends.”
“Sometimes there's that perfect moment when the crowd, the music, the energy of the room come together in a way that brings me to tears.”
“Sometimes there's this balance: if you try to clear 10 things you'll probably get lucky and be able to clear most of them, or all of them; try to clear 20 things, in my mind there's gonna be at least one issue, maybe two - and then that's when it starts getting into either re-recording stuff, or you've got to take that song off.”
“Sometimes there's truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice.”
“Sometimes there’s no one to listen to what you really might like to say at a certain moment. The paper always listens.”
“Sometimes these white guys with outsized platforms say shit like James Comey did when he complained that his erstwhile classmate Amy Klobuchar was 'annoyingly smart,' perhaps because women are not supposed to be like that, in his worldview. Another man had the temerity to explain to me that, 'the really smart wonks don't end up being the media stars needed to win the presidency, i.e., Hillary Clinton--super smart, knows the facts, but comes off as smug and all-knowing. I get this from Kamala Harris too.' In other words, he assumes that they are women who know too much and the character defect is theirs, not his. The framework that intelligence is an asset in a man and a defect in a woman is nastily familiar.”
Source: Whose Story Is This? Old Conflicts, New Chapters
“Sometimes they [people] throw off their freedom so quickly, you'd think it was burning them.”
“Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.”
Source: Bill Brandt: Selected Texts & Bibliography
“Sometimes they are just undifferentiated hobbies just like what many others have but we forget to see that in our entrepreneurial rush of excitement.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“Sometimes they come to you and it's a small role, so it's about the experience and the journey and mixing with people you know you will learn from. Or sometimes it's a scene in a movie that you think, 'I just have to play this person.'”
“Sometimes they do things to make me do the opposite of what they think, I think, they think, I am going to do.”
“Sometimes they laugh at things I don't think are funny, but I believe if they're laughing at me, it's a good show.”
“Sometimes they let her sleep in the morning, and when she awoke she looked at the clock by her pillow and began wailing. She would be late for school again. It embarrassed her to be late, she would not go to school at all.
If, on the other hand, they awoke her in time for school, she pulled the quilt over her head and pretended that she had not slept a wink. When she awoke again, she would be in tears because she was late.”
“Sometimes they need help in the form of a furie running at them, her mouth open in a scream, her eyes white hot, her heart forever pure.”
Source: My Heart Is a Chainsaw
“Sometimes they opened a book and closed it again; what was the point? On other days they had the idea of tidying up the garden, but after a quarter of an hour they felt tired; or of looking at their farm, but they came back sick at heart; or doing household jobs, but Germaine cried out in protest; they gave up.”
Source: Bouvard and Pécuchet with The Dictionary of Received Ideas
“Sometimes they purposely asked people over just to give themselves the incentive to clean up in a frantic rush before they arrived.”
Source: What Alice Forgot
“Sometimes they reasoned thus: "The Messiah ought to do such a thing, now Jesus is the Messiah, therefore Jesus has done such a thing." At other times, by an inverse process, it was said: "Such a thing has happened to Jesus; now Jesus is the Messiah; therefore such a thing was to happen to the Messiah."”
Source: The Life of Jesus
“Sometimes they rose up inside her, these moments of fierce happiness, kindling out of their own substance like a spark igniting a mound of grass. It was a joy to be alive, a strange and savage joy, and she stood there in the warmth and destruction of it knowing it could not last.”
Source: The Illumination
“Sometimes they say the world rotates a little different for lefthanders.”
“Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to So-and-so. And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself, and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You WANT it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care is yourself.”
“Sometimes they’ve already done the crying. Long before we arrive.”
Source: Farewell, Peninsular
“Sometimes they were together so often that it felt as though they really were a couple; sometimes weeks and months would go by before they saw each other. But even as alcoholics are drawn to the state liquor store after a stint on the wagon, they always came back to each other.”
“Sometimes they work, and sometimes they just won't. Sometimes you get hung up on them. When that happens, you just throw it back, and maybe come back to it two or three weeks later.”
“Sometimes they would fly down to the coast, near Mobile, land the plane on a lonely stretch of beach, and get out and walk along the shore, in winter: no one else out. He would lean slightly forward, listening to the slow, steady lapping of waves dying into the shore. He would hold Sara's hand. If she tried to speak while he was listening, imagining, he would raise a finger to his lips. The only reason he could have two passions rather than one was because he had never ruined the first. It hadn't ever been sold, when asked for. She watched him watch the beach, the ocean, and considered his success”
Source: Where the Sea Used to Be
“Sometimes they would group up and play a team of Hispanic men who were also picnicking with their families. Once, they even played some black men, though my father pointed out to us in the car home that they were African blacks. Somehow there were rarely white people in the park, never groups of their families, just young couples, if anything.”
Source: Native Speaker
“Sometimes they would just pay me to stay home and not do anything else, which sounds fantastic but doesn't do much for your ego. Its probably a little like getting alimony - the money is nice but has a nasty aftertaste.”
“Sometimes they would sit in the parlor together, both reading – in entirely separate worlds, to be sure, but joined somehow. When this happened, other people in the family couldn't bring themselves to disturb them. All that could be heard in the parlor was the sound of pages, turning.”
Source: Blackbird House
“Sometimes they'll make little Play-Doh animals, and when they go to sleep, I'll break the heads off the animals and put them at the foot of their beds for them to discover in the morning. Nothing wrong with sending your kids a little Sicilian message.”
“Sometimes they're all collectively thinking, "Wow, we're kinda a shitty audience," and then if you point it out, it's kinda like, "Hey, I know what's going on. We know what's going on up here. Or what's not going on. And I'm letting you know that I know. And now we can fix this."”
“Sometimes they're nothing, sometimes they're something, sometimes there's a connection that years later may show up. All of this information is useful.”
“Sometimes things are a change for the better and the worse at the same time, like the internet. Or the electric keyboard. Or pre-chopped garlic. Or the theory of relativity.”
Source: How to Stop Time