S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sometimes, Clark, you are pretty much the only thing that makes me want to get up in the morning.”
Source: Me Before You: A Novel
“Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.”
“Sometimes, counter-intuitively, it's easier to make a major change than a minor change. When a habit is changing very gradually, we may lose interest, give way under stress, or dismiss the change as insignificant. There's an excitement and an energy that comes from a big transformation, and that helps to create a habit.”
“Sometimes, despite the fact that you're reading through masses of material, you just can't not think about a certain event, for it seems to capture the reality of the entire situation so much better than any set of statistics.”
“Sometimes, directors are afraid to stop shooting, because the second you stop and say, "We got it," and move on, you'll never get another chance. And they're terrified to get in the cutting room and not be happy. So they just keep shooting.”
“Sometimes, divine revelation simply means adjusting your brain to hear what your heart already knows." Angels and Demons p. 484”
“Sometimes, Edie, a person's feelings aren't rational. At least, they don't seem that way on the surface. You have to dig a little deeper to understand what lies at the base”
Source: The Distant Hours
“Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.”
“Sometimes, even by accident, the universe makes beauty, and we can stand back in awe of it. Even better - we can figure out why. Science! I love this stuff.”
“Sometimes, even if there was no useful advice to give, I saw that listening still helped.”
Source: My Beloved World
“Sometimes, even the best of plans will occur to you when it is too late.”
“Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.”
“Sometimes, even when I'm writing the lyrics, I'm not sure what I'm getting at, but then months will pass and I'll listen to it and I'll understand it completely. I think I trust myself in that most of what comes out of me will be honest. Even if it seems like it doesn't make a lot of sense, I realize that it does. It's hard to follow, and maybe there's a lot of subtext to it that nobody knows, so it makes it impossible to follow.”
“Sometimes, everyone is right. Not always and not even usually, but once in a while, everyone is right.”
Source: Boneshaker
“Sometimes, everything in the world seems to be lined up against you. All the evidence says you ought to run the other way. Make the bravest choice, not the safest. It's not the best advice, but it's all I have to offer”
Source: The Rustler
“Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true.”
“Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.”
“Sometimes, flying feels too godlike to be attained by man. Sometimes, the world from above seems too beautiful, too wonderful, too distant for human eyes to see .”
Source: The Spirit of St. Louis
“Sometimes, for a moment, everything is just as you need it to be. The memories of such moments live in the heart, waiting for the time you need to think of them, if only to remind yourself that for a short while, everything had been fine, and might be so again.”
“Sometimes, for bands, everything just happens too fast.”
“Sometimes, for principle, your gonna have to kick some ass.”
“Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.”
Source: American journals
“Sometimes, from outside, and from America especially, where the racial tension is so intense, you tend to understand Brazil as a kind of ideal situation, but it's not. There are a lot of problems. Historically, we have been in struggle, in real struggle to protect and defend the natural leaning towards absorbing the African and the Indian heritage that our society has.”
“Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brishing your teath is the hardest part of the day - it all just hurts.”
“Sometimes, girls focus too much on relationships - like, "I need a boyfriend!" But you should really just focus on yourself. But it will all come together when you least expect it.”
“Sometimes, God gives you physical talent and takes away the brain.”
“Sometimes, God is going to have you sow a seed. Sometimes, God is going to have you water a seed that someone else sows. Sometimes, God is going to have you reap where others have sowed and watered.”
“Sometimes, God may prioritize performing a miracle on our hearts and minds over a miracle concerning our circumstances.”
Source: Believing God
“Sometimes, God uses difficult people, like sandpaper, to rub the rough edges off us.”
“Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to figure out who I was in a primarily white school.”
“Sometimes, he thought, all you could do was wait.”
“Sometimes, Hem, things change and they are never the same again. This looks like one of those times. That's life! Life moves on. And so should we.”
Source: Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life
“Sometimes, his methods and his motives are questionable and even his morals are questionable in the way he does things. But I think his intention is always to protect his daughter.”
“sometimes, how a situation is perceived carries more weight than the reality of the matter.”
Source: Easy
“Sometimes, however, the Gaelic blood asserts itself. The Frenchmen will then attack. But the French attacking spirit is like bottled lemonade. It lacks tenacity. The Englishmen, on the other hand, one notices that they are of Germanic blood. Sportsmen easily take to flying, and Englishmen see in flying nothing but a sport.”
Source: The Red Baron
“Sometimes, however, the new synthetic complex proves stable, and even serves as the beginning of a much larger cluster of attitudes that displace some we've previously considered to be fixed parts of ourselves.”
“Sometimes, I actually end up doing three or four different versions of one song, and sometimes, those versions can be done very differently. They can be very laid back, downtempo, or sometimes the same song can be quite uptempo. But it is always the same melody and chord progressions.”
“Sometimes, I ask myself how any other singer could substitute the inspiration of god in their songs”
“Sometimes, I can see the future stretched out in front of me - just as plain as day. The future hanging over there at the edge of my days. Just waiting for me.”
Source: A Raisin in the Sun
“Sometimes, I do have something to say, so I'll sit there and I'll write a song to someone - and then I just throw it away because it makes me cringe.”
“Sometimes, I don't know that words for things,
how to write down the feeling of knowing
that every dying person leaves something behind.”
Source: Brown Girl Dreaming
“Sometimes, I don't notice I'm singing.”
“Sometimes, I even learn new techniques from my students. Although I am still a student at the Art Institute, I think that I have learnt a lot from the classes that I have already taken.”
“Sometimes, I even recite the role to the actor if it's not clear. And I beg them not to imitate me, because I'm not a good actor.”
“Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.”
Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
“Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things.”
“Sometimes, I feel like a time traveller, cause the only way that we can really travel in time is just to get older.”
“Sometimes, I feel like I can do anything, and, sometimes, I'm so alive, sometimes, I feel like I could zoom across the sky and, sometimes, I wanna cry.”
“Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.”
“Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations