Best Incidents Lines
273 Incidents quotes by 229 unique authors
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She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was in their ears;…
— Virginia Woolf
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Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything,…
— Pete Townshend
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I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room: it only gave my nerves a shock, of which I feel the reverberation…
— Charlotte Bronte
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Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the simplest…
— Erskine Caldwell
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Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents.
— John Singer Sargent
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I can't point to a single person or incident that changed my life, but the recognition that there is a certain world order, has been…
— Shari Arison
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There is not one incident in the history of humanity in which defeatism led to peace which was anything other than a complete fraud.
— Douglas MacArthur
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If travel has taught me nothing more, and it certainly has, it's this: you never know when some trifling incident, utterly without significance, may pitchfork…
— S. J. Perelman
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Iife/personality must be taken as a total entity. All of your life is all of your life, and no one incident stands alone.
— Nikki Giovanni
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Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, "It all began that day, at such a time and such…
— Agatha Christie
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I've had to recover not only from a single well-publicized incident, but several years of press aftermath.
— Donna Rice Hughes
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Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your…
— William Zinsser
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Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a connection from one…
— Mary Catherine Bateson
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My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite a few people.…
— Fay Wray
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And so in my warnings, I was pointing to a number of incidents around the communion that could undermine our growing sense of communion -…
— George Carey
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I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot…
— Carl Barks
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What first caught my eye about Rihanna was an interview she did with Diane Sawyer after the Chris Brown incident, where she was very articulate,…
— Peter Berg
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For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to…
— Frank Delaney
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Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I…
— Andrew Gross
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President Obama's decision to bypass the constitutional advice and consent of the Senate is not an isolated incident.
— Chuck Grassley
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It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story,…
— Peter Ackroyd
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A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.
— Richard Hell
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The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and sought stimulus so little, that when…
— Charlotte Bronte
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A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.
— Roald Dahl
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