S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sophie, where does your art come from?”
“The kitchen, mostly.”
Source: Elvis Puffs Out: A Breaking Cat News Adventure
“Sophie, honey, stop looking at me like that,” Garrett said gruffly. “You’ll have me convinced I’m going to die.” “You’re not?”
Source: Maya Banks KGI
“Sophie, my dog, is the high in the highlights of my life. Even through rain, snow, ice, and general laziness, she is the reason I smile when I wake up and a comfort to me continually. I could never have imagined that a now five-pound, six-ounce dog would take over my life. But it has happened, and I am happy to have someone to look after and share my moods with.”
“Sophie," he said, and when she gave him a stern look, he took a hasty swig of the posset. “Miss Collins. I have not yet had a chance to properly apologize to you, so let me take it now. Please forgive me for the trick I played on you with the scones. I did not mean to show you disrespect. I hope you do not imagine I think any less of you for your position in the household, for you are one of the finest and bravest ladies I have ever had the pleasure of knowing.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“SOPHISTICATED about consciousness and energy?
If you’re seeking Enlightenment now, protect yourself by developing a more sophisticated kind of discernment about that.”
“Sophisticated but at the same time dramatic and seductive, Tangerine Tango is an orange with a lot of depth to it.”
“Sophisticated human beings were on hand to see this volcano's convulsions, they were able to investigate the event, and they were able to attempt to understand the processes that had caused such dreadful violence...their observations, painstaking and precise as science demanded, collided head-on with a most discomfiting reality: that while in 1883 the world was becoming ever more scientifically advanced, it was in part because of these same advances that its people found themselves in a strangely febrile and delicately balanced condition...”
Source: Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
“Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive.”
“Sophisticated people invest their money in stock portfolios. Rednecks invest their money in commemorative plates.”
“Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories. That however mean-spirited or diabolical, it's only a story. That the darkness in the soul is shaped into type and lies there, brooding and inert, black on the page, and active, dangerous, only in the reader's mind. Actually, harmless. I am not harmless.”
Source: A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You
“Sophisticating meat eating doesn't make it any less savage.”
“Sophistication and lifestyle is understanding the difference between trinkets and treasures.”
“Sophistication called for a variety of talents and attitudes, but the minimum requirement was being in New York. Not all New Yorkers achieved it, but nobody elsewhere had a prayer.”
Source: Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories
“Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.”
“Sophistication is upscale conformity.”
Source: By the Numbers
“Sophistication isn't what you wear and who you know.”
“Sophistication isn't what you wear or who you know, or pushing people down to get you where you want to go... soon your gonna find stealing other people toys on the playground won't make you many friends.”
“Sophistication knows the score, but is powerless to change it.”
“Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).”
Source: Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself
“Sophistication" is another word for that inventive mix of tolerance, resilience, and resourcefulness city people develop.”
Source: The tugman's passage
“Sophistry, like poison, is at once detected and nauseated, when presented to us in a concentrated form; but a fallacy which, when stated barely in a few sentences, would not deceive a child, may deceive half the world, if diluted in a quarto volume.”
Source: Logic
“Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were.”
Source: Aristotle on the Art of Poetry
“Sophomore Lucy Karate took a deep breath and concentrated her moss green eyes on the black squiggles in front of her. The sheet music on the page was exactly the same it had been for the past ten months. The difference wasn’t the music; it was the day. This was the day before auditions – her last opportunity to practice before her fate for the next school year was ultimately decided.”
Source: The Line
“Sophomore records are historically really difficult.”
“Sophomore year, I got hit in the stomach playing football, and I was out of school for four months. I was in the hospital for two and then out of school for two.”
“Sophos turned red, and I wondered about the circulation of his blood; maybe his body kept an extra supply of it in his head, ready for blushing.”
Source: World of the Queen's Thief Collection: The Thief, The Queen of Attolia, The King of Attolia, A Conspiracy of Kings, Thick as Thieves
“Sophronia was minding her own business and running late to luncheon, as was her custom. She'd let to learn the advantage of punctuality. As she told Sister Mattie the third time she was late to household potions and poisons, nothing interesting happened until after an event commenced.”
“Sopra i tetti delle case si vedevano striscioni di nubi, sfregati e pestati dal vento, che, lassù, doveva soffiare libero come aveva soffiato al principio del mondo.”
Source: The Ragazzi
“Soprattutto, l’umano è la verità!
Tutte le strade portano alla gente.
Bella ciao, è ora di svegliarsi alla vita!
Divisione e divinità non possono andare insieme.”
Source: Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations
“Sopravvissi perché decisi di dimenticare. La mia avventura ebbe inizio il 2 luglio 1977 e terminò il 14 febbraio 1978, ma in mezzo per me non ci furono date. Non contai i giorni, né le settimane, né i mesi. Il tempo è un’illusione che toglie il fiato. Così lo cancellai.
Yann Martel, “Vita di Pi” (Piemme, 2003), p. 205. Traduzione di Clara Nubile”
“Sora, don't ever change.”
“Sorano returned a half-hearted nod and mumbled on, dreamily.
She seemed completely fascinated by a man in a rabbit costume who kept falling flat on his face whilst endlessly repeating the phrase “How dare they speak the word “motherboard” when the Neon God has no mother?” in a very affronted tone. He was accompanied by swarthy-faced dame, who aimlessly dragged a red piece of string after her.
‘Why are you dragging that string, hey?’ the rabbit-man asked the woman right before taking a spectacular nosedive, face-first into asphalt.
‘But I must drag it, I must!’ the woman replied panicky, ‘for if I try to push it, it bends.”
Source: 5 Stars
“Sorcerers are convinced that all of us are a bunch of nincompoops. We can never relinquish our crummy control voluntarily, thus we have to be tricked”
Source: Tales of Power
“Sorcerers believe that an action taken for the right reasons has an unreasonable chance of success.”
Source: The Two Princesses of Bamarre
“Sorcery breaks no law of nature because there is no Natural Law, only the spontaneity of natura naturans, the tao. Sorcery violates laws which seek to chain this flow– priests, kings, hierophants, mystics, scientists & shopkeepers all brand the sorcerer enemy for threatening the power of their charade, the tensile strength of their illusory web.”
Source: T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism
“Sorcery is a sword without a hilt. There is no safe way to grasp it.”
Source: A Storm of Swords
“Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.”
Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows
“SORCERY, n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was, however, deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results.”
Source: T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism
“Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful evil that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts every heart, and eradicates every virtue. Fly! wherefore dost thou linger? Fly, cast not one look behind thee; nor let even thy thought return to the accursed evil for a moment.”
“Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.”
“Sordid things, for the most part, are what make human beings, my father included, move. That's what it is to be human, I'm afraid.”
Source: Player Piano
“Sore, hungry, and dehydrated, Naomi Robertson lay on a festering bed and opened her eyes to the unfamiliar surroundings. Her head throbbed and she struggled to focus, due to the intake of Rohypnol. She ran her dry tongue between the gap where her front teeth had once been. Slowly, she made out the interior of the huge-dilapidated brick building”
Source: Pursuit of Angels.
“Sore loser? You bet your fuckin' ass! What on earth is wrong with being a sore loser? It shows you cared about whatever the contest was in the first place. Fuck losing graciously-that's for chumps. And losers, by the way.”
Source: When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?
“Sore muscles are nothing compared to the pain of regret.”
“Sorel's novels deserve to be revived, but Polexander can be left in its watery grave.”
Source: The Novel: An Alternative History, 1600-1800
“Soren huffed. “I saw her looking at me when we were changing into our uniforms.”
“She was looking at you because you’re built like a bull.”
Soren’s laugh was nervous, clipped. “Is that good?”
“It’d be great if she were a cow.”
Source: Into the Still Blue
“Soren, this is my mother, Jenna Glyn. Mom, this is Soren, my ...' She blinks and shakes her head before saying, '... my everything.'
Jenna's eyes widen in horror, and I don't mind because I dislike her, too. Vehemently.”
Source: The Lost Sun
“Sorgan tried his very best not to think about how long it must have taken for a stream that small to eat its way down through solid rock to form its current bed. Sorgan knew exactly what the word “hundred” meant, but when numbers wandered off toward “thousand”—or even “million”—and the people who used those terms were talking about years, Sorgan’s mind shied back in horror.”
Source: Crystal Gorge
“Sorgen
dömer den levande
till en ensamhet
utan like,
som ensamheten i vilken
sjukdomen
innesluter
den sjuke -”
Source: Falling Out of Time