Behinds Quotes · Page 73

Are you ever afraid to go to sleep? Afraid of what comes next?” He smiles a sad little smile and I swear…

— Lauren Oliver

All men who read escape from something else into what lies behind the printed page; the quality of the dream may be…

— Raymond Chandler

The more you take away the less there is to hide behind and that's when the true talent comes out.

— Danny Bowien

Without those forerunners, Jane Austen and the Brontes and George Eliot could no more have written than Shakespeare could have written without…

— Virginia Woolf

In all my years as an actor, I had never been me - I had always hidden behind my glasses, mustaches and…

— Jon Pertwee

Get used to the bear behind you.

— Werner Herzog

I was on holiday recently and I came home to find that one of the papers here had 'bikini'd' me on the…

— Amanda Burton

There's always been a shortage of roles for three-dimensional women, no matter what age. If you look at the statistics on women…

— Sally Field

There were tiny stars behind my eyelids, a whole galaxy of tiny, spinning stars.

— Lucy Christopher

Ski. Sled. Play basketball. Jog. Run. Run. Run. Run home. Run home and enjoy. Enjoy. Take these verbs and enjoy them. They're…

— Ned Vizzini

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength…

— Queen Elizabeth II

The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.

— Aron Nimzowitsch

Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.

— Saadi

Medicine is of all the Arts the most noble; but, owing to the ignorance of those who practice it, and of those…

— Hippocrates

Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air…

— Aimee Mann

Behind the newspaper Julian was withdrawing into the inner compartment of his mind where he spent most of his time. This was…

— Flannery O'Connor

I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I…

— Zelda Fitzgerald

This system is really broken. No Child Left Behind has really failed and the only way to solve education is to leave…

— Kinky Friedman

Yeah, I think it motivates you as people start to count you out. It doesn't make you play any harder, because every…

— Joe Montana

I have been asked what I mean by my word of honor. I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls -…

— Karl G. Maeser

The moments we have behind us, you won't be able to see again. We're only responsible for what we live in right…

— Flavor Flav

A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.

— Mehmet Oz

Racing is not football or baseball or basketball where you can do it yourself. If you're good in high school, you just…

— Trevor Bayne

Behind me the world, ahead of me my world.

— Mourid Barghouti

Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I have a bunch of calendars I used before I went digital. Every once in a while, I'll open up one from…

— Michael Bierut

If you do or don't like something it's because of that thing and not because it has the right politics behind them…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

In the texts, and as His Holiness the Dalai Lama reminds us, we should check the person's behavior not when they're sitting…

— Tenzin Palmo

What you do in the present—by painting, preaching, singing, sewing, praying, teaching, building hospitals, digging wells, campaigning for justice, writing poems, caring…

— Anonymous

I do jump behind the bar when we're really busy, but by that point I've usually drunk too much to work.

— Jason Flemyng

As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my…

— Nelson Mandela

It's odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about 'old and other times' as though I had a…

— David Bowie

I know that there are obstacles; I know that there are hills to climb, I know there were people before me that…

— Ice Cube

As the Iraqi people better understand that Saddam Hussein and his regime are history, it is my hope that they will get…

— Pete Domenici

With public figures involved in a relationship it seems that there is a machine behind their love so oftentimes.

— Joaquin Phoenix

The melody and the structure of a song always comes first for me, so the emotions behind it can sometimes be a…

— Avey Tare

When the power, prestige, and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon religious…

— Hugo Black

Leave the ass burdened with laws behind in the valley. But your conscience, let it ascend with Isaac into the mountain.

— Martin Luther

God is not aloof. He is not disconnected. He says continually through the centuries, I’ll help you, I really will. When you…

— Jim Cymbala

Meg was going to have to learn for herself what Laurie had figured out over the summer - that it was better…

— Tom Perrotta