S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Somewhere in the back of my brain there exists this certainty: The body is no more than a costume, and can be changed at will. That the changing of bodies, like costumes, would make me into a different character, a character who might, finally, be alright.”
Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
“Somewhere in the back of my head must have been the thought that No leads to dead ends, and Yes leads to possibilities. Again, hearkening back to my improv days, this was the ultimate "Yes And.”
Source: Girl Walks into a Bar . . .: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle
“Somewhere in the back of my mind, Nighteyes was frantic. 'Poisoned. That water is poisoned.' I couldn't frame a thought to reassure him.”
Source: Royal Assassin
“Somewhere in the center of my soul, a rusty chain began to unwind. It freed itself, link by link, from where it had rested, unobserved, waiting for him. My hands, which had been balled up and pressed against his chest, unfurled with it. The chain continued to drop, to an unfathomable depth where there was nothing but darkness and Matthew. At last it snapped to its full length, anchoring me to a vampire. Despite the manuscript, despite the fact that my hands contained enough voltage to run a microwave, and despite the photograph, as long as I was connected to him, I was safe.”
Source: All Souls Trilogy
“Somewhere in the child, somewhere in the adult, there is a hard, irreducible, stubborn core of biological urgency, and biological necessity, and biological reason that culture cannot reach and that reserves the right, which sooner or later it will exercise, to judge the culture and resist and revise it.”
“Somewhere in the city of Vadodara, a young woman named Zaheera Sheikh stood on the balcony of her friend’s house and watched in helpless stupefaction all the members of her family along with a couple of their staff being engulfed by fires of hatred. Best Bakery which also served as their residence was in flames. It was locked from outside by some people whose slogans would remain beyond Zaheera Sheikh’s comprehension for years. The religious fervour of those slogans would go on scorching her in a different way even years after all her beloved people were interred.”
Source: Black Hole
“Somewhere in the city, Pestilence was raising an army for its fellow horseman, Death.”
Source: Dreadfully Ever After
“Somewhere in the cosmos, he said, along with all the planets inhabited by humanoids, reptiloids, fishoids, walking treeoids and superintelligent shades of the color blue, there was also a planet entirely given over to ballpoint life forms. And it was to this planet that unattended ballpoints would make their way, slipping away quietly through wormholes in space to a world where they knew they could enjoy a uniquely ballpointoid lifestyle, responding to highly ballpoint-oriented stimuli, and generally leading the ballpoint equivalent of the good life.
And as theories go this was all very fine and pleasant until Veet Voojagig suddenly claimed to have found this planet, and to have worked there for a while driving a limousine for a family of cheap green retractables, whereupon he was taken away, locked up, wrote a book and was finally sent into tax exile, which is the usual fate reserved for those who are determined to make fools of themselves in public.”
Source: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
“Somewhere in the crowd was at least one potential friend who'd understand the fundamental value of goofing off. Because if not, how boring would that be?”
“Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.”
“Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: This is really a pretty shallow and maybe unseemly way for a grownup to make a living.”
“Somewhere in the endless spinning of eternity that one, tiny, fraction of a second where our lips met is lost forever.”
Source: Before I Fall
“Somewhere in the far away distance, the briny, laughing sees of Cadoett rejoiced with a new heart-filled tune and beckoned sleepy eternity. Like intrepid, passionate sailors, two new lovers boldly faced everlasting, silver oceans of unfathomable mystique and sailed away toward love’s sweet shores.”
Source: A Long Lost Fantasy
“Somewhere in the fear and chaos, there is a clarity that few will ever experience.”
“Somewhere in the future I am remembering today.”
“Somewhere in the future, we all are dead.”
“Somewhere in the garden a thrush was singing, the joyous sweetness of its note so much in harmony with her mood that it seemed a part of her happiness. She was content for some moments to listen, not questioning the source of her happiness; but presently she came to full consciousness, and remembered that she had found a friend.”
“Somewhere in the great sky beyond this sky of planes was a star made entirely of words. And on the star lived as many different kinds of words as birds in all the skies, fish in all the seas, and clay patterns in all the hands of adoring women. Some words were cautious as the crabs nesting on the beach. Others, bold as the giant hornbills prattling in the trees. Then there were those that made no sound, but were equally fearless, folding their arms and waiting for her to sit on their lap. The prisoner who was no longer a prisoner was gathering all these many words to herself and would speak them, if there were but someone to listen, even a little.”
Source: The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali
“Somewhere in the heart of experience there is an order and a coherence which we might purprise if we were attentive enough, loving enough, or patient enough.”
Source: The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea
“Somewhere in the infinite that He occupies, God advances and withdraws the pawns of the other games He plays, but it is too soon to worry about this one, all He need do for the present is allow things to take their natural course, apart from the occasional adjustment with the tip of His little finger to make sure some stray thought or action does not interfere with the harmony of destinies.”
“Somewhere in the land, a monster lurked.”
“Somewhere in the last decade, “I disagree with you” came to mean “I hate you.”
Source: A Change of Affection: A Gay Man's Incredible Story of Redemption
“Somewhere in the last few months, it’s like someone has flicked a switch and he’s gone from “cute looking boy” to “muscular sexy man” just like that.", Celestra Caine in FADE by Kailin Gow”
“Somewhere in the midst of smudgy maps, following waters, surviving the storms, & deep, deep digging.. treasure is found.”
“Somewhere in the notes Estraven wrote during our trek across the Gobrin Ice he wonders why his companion is ashamed to cry. I could have told him even then that it was not shame so much as fear. Now I went on through the Sinoth Valley, through the evening of his death, into the cold country that lies beyond fear. There I found you can weep all you like, but there's no good in it.”
Source: The Left Hand of Darkness
“Somewhere in the ocean, a shark was missing its cold eyes because this man had them.”
Source: The Lock Artist: A Novel
“Somewhere in the other side of nowhere is a place in space beyond time where the Gods of mythology dwell. ... These gods dwell in their mythocracies as opposed to your theocracies, democracies, and monocracies. They dwell in a magic world. These Gods can even offer you immortality.”
“Somewhere in the rain, there will always be an abandoned dog that prevents you from being happy.”
“Somewhere in the shadow cast by every famous man is a feminine victim.”
“Somewhere in the state of Montana there had to be a woman he wanted to date more than once. Hell, he might propose on the second date if things ever got that far. All he had to do was find her.”
Source: Home For Christmas
“Somewhere in the surrounding heavens, Norman Rockwell reaches for a brush to paint the modern vision for a modern people. Their bubbles fill the sky.”
Source: Senses and Bones
“Somewhere in the Universe
You are hers
She is yours
Your are the father of children
She is the mother of yours
Your are her world
She is your life :)”
“Somewhere in the wide range of activity between the hard physical effort of wading for long hours against a swift current in a rocky stream, casting steadily, and the indolence of lying quietly in the sun waiting for a bobber to go under there is a type of angling to suit everyone's mood and everyone's pocketbook. Fishing is fishing wherever it is found... Angling's problems are never solved.”
Source: The compleat Lee Wulff: a treasury of Lee Wulff's greatest angling adventures
“Somewhere in the world another cry is making up the road to stars, leaving behind the shots of guns from other's fears, from other's wars. Do not take for granted morning glance. There is a sign from Deity that love is blessing the life’s rhyme. Keeping the hope tight in the heart, for peace to wipe world's cry apart.”
Source: Love is Young: Poems
“Somewhere in the world is a doctor who is worse than all other doctors...and someone has an appointment with him in the morning.”
“Somewhere in the world is the most invincible man. Just as somewhere is the most vulnerable.”
Source: No Country for Old Men
“Somewhere in the world is...The world's worst doctor and he could be yours.”
“Somewhere in the world pigs are flying, stones are bleeding, and hell has fucking froze over”
Source: An Assassin's Death
“Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.”
Source: The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Somewhere in the world there is a person who could ask you the precise question you need to hear in order to catalyze the next phase of your evolution. Do what's necessary to run into that person.”
Source: Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings
“Somewhere in the world there was a young woman with such splendid understanding that she'd see him entire, like a poem or story, and find his words so valuable after all that when he confessed his apprehensions she would explain why they were in fact the very things that made him precious to her...and to Western Civilization! There was no such girl, the simple truth being.”
Source: Writer's choice
“Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn't be done.”
“Somewhere in there, my present had become the past. I turned to the Rise. Somewhere out there, my future awaited.”
Source: From Blood and Ash
“Somewhere in there the grace of a ballet dancer joins with the strength of an SAS squaddie, the dignity of an ancient kind, the nerve of a bomb disposal officer.”
“Somewhere in there, among the worries, questions, advice and advertising jingles, lives your intuition, your true 'inner voice.' You can hear it to the extent that you give it your attention.”
“Somewhere in this latest humiliation there was a lesson in self-reliance. He'd failed so completely that he'd become his own man again.”
Source: West of Sunset
“Somewhere in this period I moved, for the first time, into an apartment by myself. A junior one bedroom between Fourth and Fifth Avenues in Park Slope. To be able to live alone, in such a quiet, light-filled, tree-shaded trio of rooms, for $850 a month - I felt incredibly lucky. I woke up to birds. So many birds, in the spring, it was as if the tree outside my front windows held one hundred nine-year-old girls on a Skittles high.”
Source: Not That Kind of Girl: A Memoir
“Somewhere in this small world, you can find a place where everyone appreciates you more than you think you deserve.”
Source: LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
“Somewhere in this vast world, a soul breathes easier and a heart feels lighter simply because you are here—quiet proof that your life matters.”
Source: The Light in the Heart
“Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are. A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.”