S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes women entrepreneurs are their own challenge, [in terms of] believing in themselves. There is no need to apologise for being ambitious.”
“Sometimes women feel uncomfortable when men stare at them when they try on shoes.”
“Sometimes women scare the hell out of me.”
Source: Michael Crichton: Two Complete Novels
“Sometimes words are harder than blows.”
“Sometimes words are just a crude translation of love.”
“Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.”
“Sometimes words are like water and lips as strong as wine.”
“sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them.”
Source: The Storyteller
“Sometimes words are not enough.”
“Sometimes words are not enough. There are some circumstances so utterly wretched that I cannot describe them in sentences or paragraphs or even a whole series of books.”
“Sometimes words are not needed to understand what someone wants to tell us...”
“Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.”
“Sometimes words come easily and sometimes they don't. Most songs take me twenty minutes to write.”
“Sometimes words come out of me and I don't know where they come from or why. They're like falling stars tumbling through the universe; bright, burning things that can't be stopped.”
“Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.”
“Sometimes words get stuck in your throat and you let your eyes talk. Don’t look away because you might miss what they are saying.”
“Sometimes words just don't get you there... don't let you say all the stuff from deep in your heart, stuff that no dictionary has a name for.”
“Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.”
Source: Diggers: The Second Book of the Nomes
“Sometimes words ruin everything.”
Source: Elements
“Sometimes words were less valuable than the air that carried them when it came to getting close.”
Source: Lover Avenged: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
“Sometimes words were like glass that broke in her mouth.”
Source: Slammerkin
“Sometimes words weren’t enough— they couldn’t cover the feeling. This was one of those times. So I closed the distance and kissed her, putting everything I felt for her, every promise I made her, into that one kiss.”
Source: Frigid
“Sometimes work is a bit slow, and I always wanted to be a princess at Disneyland. There were 1,500 of us who auditioned, and 11 of us were hired. I went through all of the training, but never ended up actually getting to play Belle because 'Revenge' started. It was the time of my life, though!”
“Sometimes work was just what you clocked into while you were falling in love. Sometimes sex was just something you did while you weren't at work. Drugs were something you did sometimes when you couldn't deal with one of those things, or with yourself. The City was so expensive and so grueling sometimes that it was easy to be unsure why you were there. Many were there to make money, money that could largely only be made there, in the long spiny arms of industries that could never grow anywhere else or anywhere smaller. Some people just liked it, its loudness and crowdedness and surprises. Some started there for a reason and then couldn't imagine being anywhere else, but maybe lost track of that reason along the way. Some people had a plan. Some were just chancing it. Either way the months flew by, and over the years you came up with something or you came up with not much.”
Source: Very Recent History: An Entirely Factual Account of a Year (c. AD 2009) in a Large City
“Sometimes working on one painting will help solve a problem in another painting.”
“Sometimes worrying about something is much worse than the actual thing you’re worrying about. So really, what’s the point in worrying?”
Source: The Magnolia Story
“Sometimes worst enemies like a Mohammed Ali and Joe Frazier that's what makes you fight so hard. Without them they never would have achieved greatness.”
“Sometimes writer's block is no more than a signal that you have not done enough research.”
Source: For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners
“Sometimes writers of no talent at all can write great acting scenes. Sometimes the very best writers can't write scenes that come to life.”
“Sometimes writers or writer-directors can get nuts about words, but you know and I know that it's the thought process behind the words that motivates the words, that conveys real communication and meaning.”
“Sometimes writers say true things about the overall nature of publicity, promotion, and the publishing industry; but alas, not always.”
“Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.”
“Sometimes writing about a thing makes it easier to stand.”
Source: Parable of the Sower
“Sometimes writing can take you to such dark places it can be nearly impossible to come back from; a part of you is left there, in the words you've bled onto paper, in the emotions you've let loose upon the page, and eventually, the world.”
“Sometimes writing everyday is like pulling teeth, painful, but necessary.”
“Sometimes writing is a race against your own mind, as your hand labours to keep up with the tide of your thoughts, and I feel that most acutely at night, when there are no competing demands on my attention. That slightly sleepy, dazed state erodes the barriers of my waking brain. My dreams are still present, like an extra dimension to my perception. But crucially, my sensible daytime self, bossy and overbearing, still slumbers. Without its overseeing eye, I can see different futures and make imaginative leaps. I can confess all my sins to a piece of paper with no one to censor it.”
Source: Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
“Sometimes writing is like playing with fire… like trying to tame an uncontrollable beast.”
“Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.”
Source: Fangirl
“Sometimes writing songs is like waiting for deliveries.”
“Sometimes wrong doors are just as valuable as right doors.”
“Sometimes WRONG is worth the FUNNY!”
“Sometimes wrong numbers are the right numbers”
“Sometimes you accidentally input an extra digit into the year: i.e, 19993 and you add 18,000 years on to *now*, and you realize that the year 19993 will one day exist and that time is a scary thing, indeed.”
“Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.”
“Sometimes you also work with people who don't explain or express to you what they're actually looking for from the shot but you haven't got that problem with this because whatever you're going to do, whether it's good or bad, will get picked up. So, in that way I guess it's pure cinema.”
“Sometimes you are ahead of people and sometimes people have blind spots. They can't see the world and they can't see what they do.”
“Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.”
“Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk.”
“Sometimes you are damn wrong and you just don't get it.”
“Sometimes you are faced with moments in life that literally scare you to death. But if what you love or believe matters enough? You will own it.”
Source: Own The Moment