S Quotes
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“Some of my job consists of me drafting and making technical drawings. So everything I did back then has materialized into something substantial for me today. Whatever kids are into, that might be their thing.”
“Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person.”
“Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.”
Source: Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
“Some of my most outrageous nights- I can only believe actually happened because of corroborating evidence. No wonder I'm famous for partying! The ultimate party- if it's any good- you can't remember it.”
“Some of my most special shooting experiences have been at weekends.”
“Some of my music requires an obsessive-compulsive approach and a real embodiment of excessiveness. So I really have to live in that world of overstimulation. Sometimes I think it's like a drug; more is more, and you can never get enough. The older I get, the more I crave that excessive aesthetic. It's never going to satisfy me.”
“Some of my old memories feel trapped in amber in my brain, lucid and burning, while others are like the wing beat of a hummingbird, an intangible, ephemeral blur.”
Source: The Memory Palace
“Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.”
“Some of my other judgements were sadly wrong. Russia has not yet lost its imperial itch. Putin's brutal invasion of Ukraine has postponed for many decades the prospect that Russia will become the modern democratic state at peace with its neighbours, which so many courageous Russians had fought so hard to create. But no people should ever be written off beyond redemption. I hang on to the golden image of the firebird which fleets through the dark forests of the Russian folklore to symbolise the hope that Russia will see better days.”
Source: Russia: Myths and Realities: The History of a Country with an Unpredictable Past
“Some of my other stories are talked about as fantasy, some as horror, and some aren't talked about as genre at all. And the same story will be labeled differently depending on country.”
“Some of my parts were hard workers. My well developed memory helped me remember people: their names and positions and what they said during meetings. Rather than making me seem checked out, my dissociation made me seem calm and collected. In fact, the general dissociative state I was always in helped me function very well. I collected information, interacted on a personal and professional level, and was quite adept at managing most tasks in my life from this superficially numb and calm place. Most people, including me, didn't notice. This way of being and interacting was really all I knew.”
Source: The Sum of My Parts: A Survivor's Story of Dissociative Identity Disorder
“Some of my peers are artists who are at the same level as I am and have been getting paid more than I have, so there's even a pay gap. It's disgusting. But as soon as you get one person speaking out about it then you'll get other people coming out of the cracks saying, "Actually, me too." I'm starting to see and feel a bit of change in the industry now. It's long, long overdue, but it's a beautiful thing to see and it's just going to get better as the days go by.”
“Some of my pictures are poem-like in the sense that they are very condensed, haiku-lik. There are others that, if they were poetry, would be more like Ezra Pound. There is a lot of information in most of my pictures, but not the kind of information you see in documentary photography. There is emotional information in my photographs.”
“Some of my plays peter out and some pan out.”
“Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many splits with women. I need solitude more often when I'm not writing than when I am.”
Source: Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993
“Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide.”
Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist
“Some of my songs are like dreams, and when you go to sleep at night you don't know if you're gonna have a dream or what you're gonna dream about.”
“Some of my songs I don't do on tour because they don't work well live.”
“Some of my students have had really bad experiences with religion. They moved away from talking to God. For a lot of people, angels are a gentle route back to the Creator.”
“Some of my stuff, I realize is just rage.”
“Some of my troubles are so familiar, I know them by their first names.”
“Some of my understanding of what philosophy and ethics is has changed very slowly. One thing that has changed is this for quite a long time I bought-into the idea that philosophy is basically about arguments. I'm increasingly of the view that it isn't. The most interesting things in philosophy aren't arguments. The thing that I think is underestimated is what I call a form of attending. I think that philosophy is at least as much about carefully attending to things as it is about the structure of arguments.”
“Some of my unhappiest moments have been in organizations. Somehow it seems to be quite respectable to do things in organizations that you would never do in private life. I have had people insult me to my face in front of colleagues. I have had my feelings rammed down my throat on the pretext that it would do me good. I have been required to do things which I didn't agree with because the organization wished it... In my worst moments I have thought organizations were places designed to be run by sadists and staffed by masochists.”
“Some of my very closest friends are my guy friends, going back to the third grade, so I believe in the integrity of the male-female friendship.”
“Some of my wise, more evolved friends say that loathing certain people, henceforth referred to as Them, is not worth the effort, that they are too thin as human forms to actually hate. I say, ‘Not for me, baby.”
Source: Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
“Some of my work is very instinctive, some of my favourite things I've ever done are just two minute sketches, nothing is better when you get it like that so quick, then other work takes months.”
“Some of my worst memories are from the time I worked in Florida.”
“Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.”
Source: The Lost Princess of Oz
“Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me. When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children. For aside from my evident inability to do anything "great," I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp which, when caught, is not worth the possession; but to please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.”
“Some of necessities go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path.”
“Some of our 'bad' friends smile and laugh with us. Then, they go behind our back and laugh at us ...with their 'good' friends.”
“Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.”
“Some of our businesses use more energy than others, but our strategy everywhere is the same... first, reduce our use of energy as much as possible. Then, switch to renewable sources of power where it makes economic sense... And, over time, as a last resort, offset the emissions we can't avoid.”
“Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets”
“Some of our diseases are worsened, or even caused, by some of our so-called medicines or healers.”
“Some of our earliest codes of ethics in the so-called Western World are little more than a rewriting of the Ten Commandments. Eastern legal constructions likewise arise out of the earliest spiritual traditions and understandings.”
“Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.”
“Some of our endeavours to eliminate or forget our problems invite more problems.”
“Some of our fiercest battles are fought and won in silence.”
“Some of our friends are our friends only because we used to be friends.”
Source: The Selfish Genie: A Satirical Essay on Altruism
“Some of our German passengers on the ship would be crying. The Brits were the same way. They were crying, because they realized a new war was about to break out across Europe, with Hitler at the head of the goose-stepping parade.”
“Some of our greatest growth emerges from our greatest struggles.”
Source: Reclaim Your Life After Trauma
“Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place in museums; others, we take for walks.”
Source: A Dog Is Listening: The Way Some of Our Closest Friends View Us
“Some of our hearts are more Gothic and take to haunting.”
“Some of our important choices have a time line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.”
“Some of our jokes we made up on the fly. I love Lecrae; we have been friends for a while and he is just one of my favorite people.”
“Some of our life's almosts may hurt us the most.
Bringing pain in our hearts, wearing out our souls.
We find ourselves recognizing situations which are already over.
You thought your dream was closer— instead you got closure.
Sad, isn't it?”
Source: a Constellation of Almosts
“Some of our loves and attachments are elemental and beyond our choosing, and for that very reason they come spiced with pain and regret and need and hollowness and a feeling as close to anger as I will ever be able to manage.”
“Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey places like the kitchen table.”
“Some of our most powerful works of art have been produced by older Americans-by hands that have engaged in years of hard work, eyes that have witnessed decades of change, and hearts that have felt a lifetime of emotions. Our whole society benefits when older Americans use their talents and experiences to become involved in the arts as creators, teachers, mentors, volunteers, and audiences.”