Best Sneaking Up Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

Writing I Can Sometimes Enough Helping Found Hours Dinner Productive Enough Time Sneaking Up

Author:Michael Crichton

“Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you When you think everything's okay and everything's going right And life has a funny way of helping you out when You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up In your face”

Thinking Way Life Wells Helping Faces Gone Okay Blow Your Face Sneaking Up

Author:Alanis Morissette

“Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey.”

Needs Looks Use Hands Eye Faces Sides Secret Behinds Vision Fronts Sight Mirrors Track Prey Pins Predator Peripheral Vision Sneaking Up

Author:Diane Ackerman

“If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.”

Ifs Made Funny Death Social Party Dying Function Favors Grants Disturbing Pumpkin Tiptoes Sneaking Up Sneaking Around Sneaking Out

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“I don't like to be the guy that stands out. I like kind of sneaking up on guys instead of being out front.”

Kind Guy Fronts Standing Out Sneaking Up

Author:Roy Oswalt

“I can say now is that sneaking up on people is a major delight in my old age, but it always has been. A desire, even a need, to shock.”

People Needs Has Beens I Can Age Desire Majors Delight Old Age Shock Sneaking Up

Author:Patricia McConnell

“There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.”

Night Middle Edges Cheese Middle Of The Night Tidy Fridges Hunk Sneaking Up

Author:Boris Johnson

“...it has been well said that it is precisely these moments when we are feeling that ours is the world and everything that's in it that Fate selects for sneaking up on us with the rock in the stocking.”

World Wells Has Beens Said Moments Feelings Fate Rocks Stockings Well Said Sneaking Up

Book:Full Moon: (Blandings Castle)

Source: Full Moon: (Blandings Castle)

“What would he imagine next? Little hairy beasties tap-dancing on his sofa, or other fey creatures sneaking up on him in the shower?’ (Syn)”

Littles Next Imagine Creatures Dancing Showers Sofas Fey Tap Dancing Sneaking Up

Book:Born of Fire

Source: Born of Fire

“Her accent's funny, different from mine, different from anyone in Prentisstown's. Her lips make different kinds of outlines for the letters, like they're swooping down on them from above, pushing them into shape, telling them what to say. In Prentisstown, everyone talks like they're sneaking up on their words, ready to club them from behind.”

Kind Different Behinds Mines Ready Shapes Letters Lips Clubs Pushing Different Kinds Accents Outlines Sneaking Up

Book:The Knife of Never Letting Go

Source: The Knife of Never Letting Go

“It is often to the wary that the events in life are unexpected. Looser types-people who are not busy weighing and measuring every little thing-are used to accidents, coincidences, chance, things getting out of hand, things sneaking up on them. They are the happy children of life, to whom life happens for better or worse.”

“I would have liked to catch hold of sleep at least once, just as I had been resolved to catch hold of death one day, to catch hold of the wings of the angel of sleep when it came for me, to grab it with two fingers like a butterfly after sneaking up on it from behind. [...] My sleep game was practice for the grand struggle with death.”

Two Games Sleep Behinds Practice Struggle One Day Angel Wings Fingers Butterfly Like A Butterfly Sneaking Up

Author:Danilo Kis

“Ethical dilemmas have a way of sneaking up on a person. If something smells funny, stay away from it. Or help get rid of it.”

Ifs Way Persons Helping Funny Smell Ethical Dilemma Sneaking Up Ethical Dilemmas

Author:Price Pritchett

“Grace has a way of sneaking up on you like that. When you least deserve it.”

Way Grace Deserve Sneaking Up

Book:Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace

Source: Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace

“Everything felt fragile and freshly come upon, but for now, at least, my depression had stepped back, giving me room to move forward. I had forgotten what it was like to be without it, and for a moment I floundered, wondering how I would recognize myself. I knew for certain it would return, sneaking up on me when I wasn’t looking, but meanwhile there were bound to be glimpses of light if only I stayed around and held fast to the long perspective. It was a chance that seemed worth taking.”

Ifs Giving Long Moments Light Moving Certain Felt Chance Rooms Wonder Perspective Return Bounds Forgotten Moving Forward Fragile Glimpse Sneaking Up

Author:Daphne Merkin

“So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking up on you.”

Way May Mean Long Ends Long Time Sneaking Up

Author:Julie Powell

“Life has a funny way of helping you out when you think that everything's gone wrong.”

Thinking Way Philosophy Helping Gone Sneaking Up

Author:Alanis Morissette

“Once I started working with the Polaroid, I would take a shot and if that shot was good, then I'd move the model and change the lighting or whatever... slowly sneaking up on what I wanted rather than having to predetermine what it was.”

Ifs Wanted Moving Change Models Shots Lighting Polaroids Sneaking Up

Author:Chuck Close