S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family members or friends who lack the desire, the courage, or the opportunity to burst in on you when there's some indication that you could be sexually entwined will seldom hesitate to interject themselves between you and a page, even though the act of reading is often as intimate and intense as a full-fledged carnal embrace. You must take steps to ensure your privacy.”
Source: Wild Ducks Flying Backward
“Serious reading is hardly a social activity and every halfway serious reader is perpetually subject to a form of coitus interruptus. Family members or friends who lack the desire, the courage, or the opportunity to burst in on you when there's some indication that you could be sexually entwined will seldom hesitate to interject themselves between you and a page, even though the act of reading is often as intimate and intense as a full-fledged carnal embrace.”
Source: Wild Ducks Flying Backward
“Serious research and development efforts are required to produce technologies, strategies, organizations, and trained personnel who can go into failed states, work with our allies and friends, and promote the political and economic reforms that will meet popular needs and reduce the sources of terrorism and conflict.”
“Serious skeptics, true believers, and seekers of every stripe will want to read Mitch Horowitz's vibrant, probing, and richly researched account of the impact of the positive-thinking movement on every aspect of American life today. Filled with a cast of remarkable characters and many lively tales, One Simple Idea is a readable, responsible examination of the limits and possibilities of mind-power as a source of constructive transformation.”
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
(in "The Sporting Spirit", Tribune, GB, London, December 1945)”
Source: The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell 1903-1950
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.”
“Serious sport is war minus the shooting.”
“Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites.”
Source: Laws
“Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.”
“Serious times require strong leadership.”
“Serious work gets done ... in congenial surroundings, which tend to make you laugh.”
“Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration.”
Source: The Writer's Book of Hope: Getting from Frustration to Publication
“Seriously? A tool belt? Carley swallowed as she watched Knox hook the belt around his waist, then let it ride low on his hips. What was it about a guy wearing a tool belt that had her lady parts screaming that they needed to be hammered? Wait, bad choice of words. She meant that they were broken and needed to be fixed…with his tool…er…tools. He pulled his hammer from the loop on the side and held it up, almost as if reading her mind. “Do you have something you need me to nail?” A laugh burst out of her. Whether it was nerves or that his comment was just too cheesy, she couldn’t hold back the laughter. He lifted one shoulder as he offered her a sheepish grin. “That one was probably a little too much.” “But you did get me to laugh.” “One mission down, one to go.” “You still think you’re gonna earn that kiss?” His lips curved into a slow sexy smile. “I’m still gonna try.”
Source: Every Bit a Cowboy
“Seriously. Can’t you tell when someone’s joking, Fisher?”
Source: Brimstone
“Seriously consider, that sin is of a very deceitful and bewitching nature; sin is from the greatest deceiver, it is a child of his own begetting, it is the ground of all the deceit in the world, and it is in its own nature exceeding deceitful. 'But exhort one another daily, while it is called 'today', lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.' It will kiss the soul, and look enticing to the soul, and yet betray the soul forever. It will with Delilah smile upon us, that it may betray us into the hands of the devil, as she did Samson into the hands of the Philistines. Sin gives Satan a power over us, and an advantage to accuse us and to lay claim to us, as those who wear his badge; it is of a very bewitching nature; it bewitches the soul, where it is upon the throne, that the soul cannot leave it, though it perish eternally by it.”
Source: PRECIOUS REMEDIES AGAINST SATAN'S DEVICES
“Seriously, flooding your body with amped-up sexual intensity is heart stopping. Circulating that energy with your lover and creating a typhoon of orgasmic bliss is freakin’ transcendent!”
“Seriously hairy shit was going down on a regular basis.”
Source: Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
“Seriously, I can't think when you look at me like that.”
Source: Fourth Wing
“Seriously. I’ll wager you aren’t ten years older than me.”
“I bet I am.”
“So what? So when I’m eighty, you’ll be ninety. It’s just a number.”
I relaxed on a pile of pillows on my end of the boat. Eyes closed, I enjoyed the sunshine’s warmth on my face with the intermittent quack of ducks floating on the cool breeze. “I’m just saying, I’m not sure your eighty-year-old self will enjoy being chased by a gaggle of ninety-year-old women at the old folks’ home.”
“And I’m just saying if you were there, I’d let you catch me.”
Source: Tex Miller Is Dead
“Seriously I suspected I was a good actor, though I didn't know it during 'Monsoon Wedding'. Now I realize the more I learn the less I know about acting... and life.”
“Seriously? I wouldn't need to be rescued. I would find out which way was downhill and locate the nearest water source to follow or I'd climb high and look for gaps in tree lines due to roads, power cables, or train tracks. At night, I'd look for artificial light sources..." I paused when I noticed the smirk had been totally wiped off Jack's face. "Do you want me to tell you how I'd read the night sky? I can do that, too. Oh, and I also know how to make a fire out of sticks and build a rudimentary shelter. I joined an orienteering club when I was a kid to learn outdoor survival skills, and every Christmas I asked Santa for survival gear."
Silence.
"Boom." I opened my hand and closed it again, giving Jack my most satisfied smile. "Mic drop.”
Source: 'Til Heist Do Us Part
“Seriously, if the bastards cheat on you, then they don't deserve you anyway. If that's a legit fear, then you probably shouldn't be with them to begin with.”
Source: Shut Out
“Seriously, isn’t there enough holiday cheer around here? You all don’t have to invade my office.” I glared at my coworkers, decked out in their fancy Christmas finery, complete with Santa hats and jingly socks.
I should have been expecting this—it was a week before Christmas. -- Erica”
Source: Mission of Christmas
“Seriously, it's against the rules, a boy isn't a good enough reason to get into trouble.”
Source: The Summer of Secrets
“Seriously, Jack, I think you might be the only guy in this city who hasn’t read his stuff. Collin McCann is like the Carrie Bradshaw of Chicago men.”
“You mean Terry Bradshaw,” Jack corrected.
“No, Carrie,” Wilkins repeated. “You know, Sarah Jessica Parker. Sex and the City.”
A silence fell over the room as Collin and Jack stared at Wilkins, seriously fearing for the fate of men.”
Source: Something About You
“seriously. “Just because you can’t experience everything doesn’t mean you shouldn’t experience anything.
-Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything”
Source: Everything, Everything
“Seriously? Kissing her right now is what we need to be doing when we have pissed-off aliens on us?"
"Kissing her is always the right thing to do.”
Source: Opposition
“Seriously, man. How did you fuck up this bad?"
Atticus's eyes bulged behind his glasses, his face contorting. "My fucking gun jammed. I had to improvise."
Adam gaped at him. "And your first thought was a hatchet?"
Atticus snorted, his voice full of derision when he said "It's a meat cleaver, you miscreant.”
Source: Unhinged
“Seriously man, shut it.”
“Alright, alright. You’re the driver,” He raised his chip bag in toast, “My life is in your hands.”
Source: The Community: A Funny and Disturbing Conspiracy Mystery Novel
“Seriously, men.” Gina scowls when she turns back to us. “We’re royalty when they want to fuck. Thrilled to have as much sex as their anatomy allows, and then we’re nothing.
Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place.”
Source: Manwhore +1
“Seriously, no. Go be weird somewhere else.” I want people to stop
hating me, not treat me like a sideshow.”
Source: How to Hang a Witch
“Seriously? Of all the cool names you could have picked when you registered me, ‘The Storm’ was the best you could come up with?” Kieran said to Con.
“What? You don’t get it? A storm is a baby hurricane, you know, like you’re the smaller, less-powerful version of me,” Con answered, chuckling at his own cleverness”
“Seriously? One kiss and we’re having an existential crisis? Angie, breathe. There’s no ring on your finger. Date whoever you want.
Chapter 24”
Source: Voluntary pain
“Seriously. Poor little me can deal with having mated a millionaire.”
“Oh, you found someone else? With less money?”
Source: Wolf Line
“Seriously? she hisses. You're literally putting your dick in the leader of a foreign state, who is a man, at the biggest political event before the election, in a hotel full of reporters, in a city full of cameras, in a race close enough to fucking hinge on some bullshit like this, like a manifestation of my fucking stress dreams, and you're asking me not to tell the president about it?”
Source: Red, White & Royal Blue
“Seriously, so many times I've heard women talk about fast men unsatisfying them in the bedroom because they ejaculate too quickly, yet it seems now, if you don't ejaculate quick enough, then they will feel insecure about it instead. I don't get it - Too quick, you're rubbish, yet too long, then you're making them feel bad.”
Source: Hollywood Girlfriend
“Seriously, this old woman had no idea how close she came to being squashed like a roach. -Sage Hannigan, Contingency”
“Seriously, though, the bouncer won't be a problem. I think he liked me." - Daemon
"W-w-What?" - Katy
"I think he liked me, like, really liked me." - Daemon
"Your ego knows no limit, you know that?." - Katy
"You'll see. I know these kinds of things." - Daemon”
Source: Opal
“Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time.”
“Seriously? What do I look like? A dog?”
Source: The Cat Who Saved the Library
“Seriously, what is the source of our thoughts? How do artists create art? How do writers write? What is it that is doing the creating?”
Source: The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
“Seriously? What the hell is wrong with me? Sure, Mason is hot. Tall, blue eyes, muscular build that screams of the athlete he used to be back in college, and dirty blonde hair I want to run my hands through. But I’ve been there, done that, and got the broken heart to prove it. I just need to finish this shoot and send him on his way. Attraction be damned.”
Source: Shutter Bug
“Seriously, what was it about cute boys that made it so hard for her to function?”
Source: Flashback
“Seriously, who falls asleep that quickly? Imagine being able to sleep without listening to a true crime podcast episode or immersing yourself in your imaginary dreamworld for at least an hour.”
Source: Loveless
“Seriously, would you want some strange dude with
a scalpel down near your lady parts?”
She shuddered. “I can think of better uses for a dude
down near my lady parts.”
Source: Playing It Cool
“Seriously? You're okay with sharing? Most of my dates hate when I ask to taste their food."
"Saffron." His tone has grown rather severe.
"Yes?"
"First, I don't want to hear about your other dates, it'll only piss me off. You are here with me."
Possessive much? And yet that declaration has my tummy flip-flopping in pleasure.
"Fair. What's two?"
"If I don't share then I won't be getting any of that and I really want to try that."
"Oh, Logan, yes you do. This is like crack."
His smile comes in a flash. "Then hand me your bread plate.”
Source: Waiting for the One
“Seriously", Macey snapped. "go. Kiss. A baby" "can you believe her?" Preston asked, coking his head towards macey." everytime she sees me, all she does is call me baby and talk about kissing." Macey looked like she wanted to kill him. But I kind of wanted to laugh.”
“Seriously, a thirty-something woman shouldn't be daydreaming about a fictional character in a two-hundred-year-old world to the point where it interfered with her very real and much more important life and relationships. Of course she shouldn't.”
Source: Austenland: A Novel
“Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away,' he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank.”
Source: The Fault in Our Stars
“Seriously, he is just a voice on the radio, unlike the ones in your head, you don't have to do what he tells you to do.”