S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Snape was looking as though the first person to ask him for a Love Potion would be force-fed poison.”
“Snape's patronus was a doe,' said Harry, 'the same as my mother's because he loved her for nearly all of his life, from when they were children.”
“Snapping shut his mobile, Dalgliesh reflected that murder, a unique crime for which no reparation is ever possible, imposes it own compulsions as well as it's conventions. He doubted whether Macklefield [the murder victim's Will attorney] would have interrupted his country weekend for a less sensational crime. As a young officer he, too, had been touched, if unwillingly and temporarily, by the power of murder to attract even while it appalled and repelled. He had watched how people involved as innocent bystanders, provided they were unburdened by grief or suspicion, were engrossed by homicide, drawn inexorably to the place where the crime had occurred in fascinated disbelief. The crowd and the media who served them had not yet congregated outside the wrought-iron gates of the Manor. But they would come, and he doubted whether Chandler-Powell's [owner of the Manor where the murder was committed] private security team would be able to do more than inconvenience them.”
Source: The Private Patient
“Snapshots that have been taken of me working show something I was not aware of at all, that over and over again I'm holding my own body or my own hands exactly like the person I'm photographing. I never knew I did that, and obviously what I'm doing is trying to feel, actually physically feel, the way he or she feels at the moment I'm photographing them in order to deepen the sense of connection.”
“Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind.”
“Snark from nerds is a leading indicator that I'm wasting their time and when I find it, I ask questions until I understand the inefficiency so I can change it or explain it.”
“Snark is what people on the inside call any attempt at protest from people on the outside. I hate it on principle, as do all Columbia professors, Catholic priests, and Mississippi Klansmen.”
Source: Snark: A Polemic in Seven Fits
“Snark often functions as an enforcer of mediocrity and conformity. In its cozy knowingness, snark flatters you by assuming that you get the contemptuous joke. You've been admitted, or readmitted, to a club, though it may be the club of the second-rate.”
Source: Snark: A Polemic in Seven Fits
“Snarky, sexy and so much fun. Sugar Jamison is sure to be a hit!.”
“Snarls and sobs show that a love affair is getting serious.”
“Snatched away like socks glommed off the sale table at Wal-Mart, dog treat snapped up by an eager German Sheppard, mouse picked off the lawn by a swooping owl.”
Source: Between the Shadow and the Soul
“Snatching happiness takes a lot more courage than enduring unhappiness”
“Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.”
Source: Where I Live: Selected Essays
“Sneak out when things go good. It bothers me when people have good games and stand in front of their locker waiting for the media, then they have bad games and sneak out the back.”
“Sneak out." He shrugged, as if that should have been a no-brainer. But that was easy for him to say. He was dead. What else could they do to him, take away his birthday?”
Source: Soul Screamers Volume One: My Soul to Lose\My Soul to Take\My Soul to Save
“Sneakers and even sweatpants are acceptable attire everywhere, even in upscale or fancy restaurants”
Source: Travel With Style: Master the Art of Stylish and Functional Travel Capsules
“Sneakers are not my thing.”
“Sneaking in and out of places was a skill that Han had mastered at a young age. All his life, people had been trying to keep him inside places he didn't want to be, or out of places he needed to get into.”
“Sneaking in undetected is better than charging in and eating only the slowest.”
“Sneaking out the back door to hand out with those hoodlum friends of mine.”
“Sneaking up on it sometimes helps: I've found I can be very productive for an hour before dinner, because there obviously isn't enough time to really do anything, so I can tell myself I'm just screwing around.”
“Sneaking was a kind of deceit. So was disguise. Just past midnight, wearing dark trousers and Fox's hood, the queen snuck out of her own rooms and stepped into a world of stories and lies.”
Source: Bitterblue
“Sneaky would be a lime-green Volkswagen. Nobody would suspect the assassins in the lime-green Volkswagen.”
Source: Cold Cereal
“Sneaky, manipulating, merciless bloodsucker . . ." A chuckle drifted up to me. "Pillow talk already? You'll have me hard before we're even back in our room.”
“Sneering has gotten a bad rap, he thought, walking rapidly up the hill from his car. All that unleashed adrenaline got his legs pumping. Why is it that only villains are allowed to sneer? Surely such a display of disapproval could be used to better all humankind. If there was more sneering in the world, people might think before they acted.”
Source: Shared Sorrows
“Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.”
“Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.”
“Sneezes pent but set like traps, the boys crouched, stood, lay sweating a cool and constant brine.”
“Sneezeweed, Drew?"
He grinned. "Jealous?"
"Surprised."
"Remind me, and I'll have a talk with Gerald. Give him a few tips."
"Promise?"
"Absolutely.”
Source: A Bride Most Begrudging
“Sneezing absorbs all the functions of the soul just as much as the [sexual] act, but we do not draw from it the same conclusions against the greatness of man, because it is involuntary; although we bring it about, we do so involuntarily. It is not for the sake of the thing in itself but for another end, and is therefore not a sign of man's weakness, or his subjection to this act.”
Source: Pascal Pensées
“Sneg je uvek beo, ali je svake godine drugačiji. Tako je i sa ljubavlju. Nije važno koliko je stara, nego da li se menja ili ne. Ako kažeš: moja ljubav je već tri godine ista, znaj da ti je ljubav umrla. Ljubav živi samo dok se menja. Kad prestane da se menja, to je kraj.”
“Snek”
“Snerdley is one of the most loyal employees. Snerdley believes that I have only received about 2% of the credit that I deserve for a whole bunch of stuff. So any time he gets a caller like you he’ll put you to the top.”
“Snicker on hearing his name: 'the gentleman who thinks we are descended from the apes.'”
Source: Dictionary of Accepted Ideas
“Sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads.”
“Sniff lay under his blanket and screamed.
"Now it's right over us!" said Moominpappa. And at that moment a giant flash of lighting lit up the island, followed by a rending crash.
"That struck something!" said the Snork.
It was really a bit too much. The Hemulen sat holding his head. "Trouble! Always trouble!" he muttered.”
Source: Finn Family Moomintroll
“Sniff looked at them and noticed that they were much smaller than he was, so he felt kinder and said, condescendingly. "Hullo. Nice to see you.”
Source: Finn Family Moomintroll
“Sniffing glue is a homeless nonbeliever's prayer.”
“Snipers learn to silence the chaos of their thoughts until only the target and the shot exist. In that silence lies mastery, and in mastery lies freedom from fear.”
Source: The Sniper Mind: Eliminate Fear, Deal with Uncertainty, and Make Better Decisions
“Snitch on yourself whenever your potential is filtered by what other people think.”
“Snitches get witches.”
Source: Betwixt Forest and Fell: House of the Crown of the Prince of the...
“SNL is a home. You've got all of your brothers and sisters there, and it's a great time.”
“SNL was a dream come true for me. It was a fantastic year. I dont have any regrets.”
“Snob corrupted.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“Snobbery has gone out of fashion, and in our shops you will find duchesses jostling with typists to buy the same dress.”
Source: Quant
“Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation of social and cultural values in contemporary civilization.”
Source: The trail of the dinosaur & other essays
“Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position.”
“Snobbery management is as difficult and necessary as anger management.”
Source: Embracing the Ordinary: Lessons From the Champions of Everyday Life
“Snobbery might sometimes look cool, like smoking, but the end result is usually a repelling one.”
“Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things.”
Source: Back-log studies and My summer in a garden