S Quotes
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“Susannah looked over at Eddie and felt a passing ripple of irritation. He seemed to have lost interest in the whole thing--had "zoned out," in his weird 1980s slang. She thought to throw an elbow into his side, wake him up a little, then remembered Roland shaking his head at her and didn't. You wouldn't know he was thinking, not from that slack expression on his face, but maybe he was. If so, you better hurry it up a little, precious, she thought.”
Source: Wizard and Glass
“Susannah smiled at them nervously, then looked up at the route-map. "Hello, Blaine."
"HOWDY, SUSANNAH OF NEW YORK."
Her heart was pounding, her armpits were damp, and here was something she had first discovered way back in the first grade: it was hard to begin. It was hard to stand up in front of the class and be first with your song, your joke, your report on how you spent your summer vacation ... or your riddle, for that matter. The one she had decided upon was one from Jake Chambers's crazed English essay, which he had recited to them almost verbatim during their long palaver after leaving the old people of River Crossing. The essay, titled "My Understanding of Truth," had contained two riddles, one of which Eddie had already used on Blaine.
"SUSANNAH? ARE YOU THERE, L'IL COWGIRL?"
Teasing again, but this time the teasing sounded light, good-natured. Good-humored. Blaine could be charming when he got what he wanted. Like certain spoiled children she had known.
"Yes, Blaine, I am, and here is my riddle. What has four wheels and flies?"
There was a peculiar click, as if Blaine were mimicking the sound of a man popping his tongue against the roof of his mouth. It was followed by a brief pause. When Blaine replied, most of the jocularity had gone out of his voice. "THE TOWN GARBAGE WAGON, OF COURSE. A CHILD'S RIDDLE. IF THE REST OF YOUR RIDDLES ARE NO BETTER, I WILL BE EXTREMELY SORRY I SAVED YOUR LIVES FOR EVEN A SHORT WHILE.”
Source: Wizard and Glass
“Susannah: (sotto voce) Everybody's a goddam critic.
Jake: Blaine, I have one more.
Blaine: EXCELLENT.
Jake: Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came sweetness.
Blaine: (amused) THIS RIDDLE COMES FROM THE HOLY BOOK KNOWN AS 'OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE OF KING JAMES.' IT WAS MADE BY SAMSON THE STRONG. THE EATER IS A LION; THE SWEETNESS IS HONEY, MADE BY BEES WHICH HIVED IN THE LION'S SKULL. NEXT? YOU STILL HAVE TIME, JAKE.
Jake: (shaking his head negatively) I've told them all. I'm done.
Blaine: (as John Wayne) SHUCKS, L'IL TRAILHAND, THAT'S A PURE-D SHAME. LOOKS LIKE I WIN THAT THAR GOOSE, UNLESS SOMEBODY ELSE CARES TO SPEAK UP. WHAT ABOUT YOU, OY OF MID-WORLD? GOT ANY RIDDLES, MY LITTLE BUMBLER BUDDY?”
Source: Wizard and Glass
“Susannah: This place...it may or may not be Topeka, but what it really looks like to me is one of those creepy little towns on The Twilight Zone. You boys probably don't remember that one, but--
Eddie and Jake: (in perfect unison) Yes, I do. (laughter)
Jake: They still show the reruns.
Eddie: Yeah, all the time. Usually sponsored by bankruptcy lawyers who look like shorthair terriers.”
Source: Wizard and Glass
“Susannah wasn't the shiniest apple on the highest branch of the tallest tree, but she was smart enough to have figured out that sex wasn't always the same even when you were having it with the same person.”
Source: The Book of Love
“Susannah." My dance partner's breath was soft against my cheek. "Susannah...." Yeah. In my dreams. In real life, the voice calling my name wasn't a bit masculine. That's because it belonged to a twelve-year-old boy.”
“Susanne Alleyn's Game of Patience is a well-crafted historical mystery, authentic in every detail. Wonderfully entertaining.”
“Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.”
“Susie and Pippa clinked their glasses together. I followed suit, but my heart wasn't in it anymore. It had already left the building.”
Source: Into the Dark, Vol. 1
“Susie: Hi Calvin! Aren't you excited about going to school? Look at all these great school supplies I got! I love having new notebooks and stuff!
Calvin:All I've got to say is they're not making me learn any foreign languages. If English is good enough for me, then by golly, it's good enough for the rest of the world! Everyone should just speak English or shut up, that's what I say!
Susie: You should maybe check the chemical content of your breakfast cereal.”
Source: The Revenge of the Baby-Sat
“Susie Lynn, the producer of those segments, goes in and lays all the voices over the video.”
“Susie took mental inventory of her sensations. She could hear and smell. The air she breathed was cool and dry. She could feel her chest rise and fall. Feel the air in her lungs. She sensed that she was lying on her back, but her eyes wouldn’t open. Her hands, her feet... nothing responded. She couldn’t move. She tried again to speak, but nothing happened. She was trapped in the darkness.”
Source: Life for Life
“Suskunluk, duyuların yoğunlasmasına yol açar - insanlar arasındaki sessizlik, iletisimin çoğalmasını
sağlar. Çünkü sessizliğin içinde, ikimizden ya da üçümüzden daha büyük olan bir seyi paylasırız.
Sessizlik, duyularla algılananların tümünün doruk noktasıdır. Söylenen sözcük, sessizliğe yapılmıs bir
müdahale, bütünlüğe yapılmıs bir tecavüzdür. Sözcükler toplam deneyimimizin küçücük bir bölümünü
bulandırır, farklılastırır, sınıflandırır ve en sonunda onu yeni bastan düzenler. Bu, durgun suya bir tas
atıp olusan halkalar yüzünden suyu eskisi kadar açık seçik görememeye benzer. Bu bağlamda sözcük,
tasın kendisidir.”
Source: Cehenneme Övgü: Gündelik Hayatta Totalitarizm
“Suspect all of your favorite sentences.”
“Suspect all your favorite sentences.”
“Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.”
Source: A Month of Sundays
“Suspect too much sweet talk but never close your mind.”
Source: Opened Ground
“Suspecting and knowing are not the same.”
Source: The lightning thief
“Suspects who are innocent of a crime should. But the thing is, you don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.”
“Suspend and even leave your rights if the national unity, stability, and integrity stay great importance than your prerogatives.”
“Suspend for a moment your disbelief and encounter once again the sense of wonder you knew when there was... magic!”
“Suspend judgment until you see the end of the situation.”
“Suspend your disbelief.”
“Suspending moral judgement is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of judging instantly, ceaselessly, and everyone; of judging before, and in the absence of, understanding. From the viewpoint of the novel's wisdom, that fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity. Not that the novelist utterly denies that moral judgement is legitimate, but that she refuses it a place in the novel.”
“Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.”
“Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of judging instantly, ceaselessly, and everyone; of judging before, and in the absence of, understanding. From the viewpoint of the novel's wisdom, that fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity, the most pernicious evil.”
“Suspense combines curiosity with fear and pulls them up a rising slope.”
“Suspense doesn’t always have to be about physical danger. Making the reader worry is a universal concept that can be applied to any story.”
“Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know.”
“Suspense is irksome, disappointment bitter.”
Source: Shirley
“Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement.”
“Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not mysterious. And what could be more obvious than the old black velvet and pearls type? The perfect ‘woman of mystery’ is one who is blonde, subtle and Nordic. ... Although I do not profess to be an authority on women, I fear that the perfect title [for a movie], like the perfect woman is difficult to find.”
“Suspense is one of the ways you persuade a reader to become engaged and stay engaged with your work.”
“Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.”
Source: The Twelfth Hour
“Suspense is very important. Even though this is humor and they're short stories, that theory of building suspense is still there.”
“Suspense is worse than disappointment.”
Source: The works with his lift by Allan Cunningham
“Suspense is worst than disappointment.”
“Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.”
Source: The Flame Alphabet
“Suspense was an excellent tool for keeping powerful people off balance. It gave one bargaining power.”
Source: City of Dragons
“Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)
“Suspense: the only literary tool that has any effect upon tyrants and savages.”
Source: Aspects Of the Novel
“Suspension of disbelief and that whole question is part of the heart of the 'Leaves of Grass'movie.”
“Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.”
“Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.”
Source: Lord Bacon's Essays, Or Counsels Moral and Civil: Translated from the Latin by William Willymott, ... In Two Volumes. ...
“Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.”
“Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together.”
Source: Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion
“Suspicion cleaves to the dark side of things.”
“Suspicion, dislike, jealousy, scapegoating. None of those are the transcendent facet of the human personality; they’re diseases. They’re cancer to the soul. They are the infectious, contagious viruses that have been breeding humanity for years. And because they have been, and because they are, is it necessary that they shall be? I think not.”
“Suspicion follows close on mistrust.”
“Suspicion has its dupes, as well as credulity.”