Best Incidents Proverbs
273 Incidents quotes by 229 unique authors
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If you're referring to the incident with the Dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care…
— Donald Miller
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Past one o’clock. You must have gone to bed. The Milky Way streams silver through the night. I’m in no hurry; with lightning telegrams I…
— Vladimir Mayakovsky
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As is so often the case with a legend, every incident has two possible interpretations, the plausible and the one that is molded to suit…
— Bryce Courtenay
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Don’t worry, we’re not letting her out of our sight…and after the Nick incident, we’re not letting her out from behind this bar. (Aimee) Yeah,…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I hadn't seen my dad get violent since the Great Spatula Incident, and I wasn't anxious to see a repeat of that.
— Rick Riordan
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This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every…
— Sivananda
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The years, the months, the days, and the hours have flown by my open window. Here and there an incident, a towering moment, a naked…
— Howard Thurman
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We all make mistakes, Steele. It’s what we do afterward that defines us more than the actual incident that led to the mistake. (Joe)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Apparently, word of the chicken man incident hadn’t spread quite yet.
— Rick Riordan
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Sometimes something catastrophic can occur in a split second that changes a person's life forever; other times one minor incident can lead to another and…
— Jeannette Walls
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he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Keep a diary, but don't just list all the things you did during the day. Pick one incident and write it up as a brief…
— John Berendt
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Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents
— Orhan Pamuk
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[E]very plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its dénouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with the dénouement constantly…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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did you not call this a glorious expedition? and wherefore was it glorious? not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea,…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Henry shook his head, 'I was drunk,' he said, trying to sound both ashamed and firm in this belief. He remembered the rosebush incident very…
— Anna Godbersen
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And if these incidents now seem full of significance and all of a piece, it's probably because I'm looking at them in the light of…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from yourself. You pin down certain truths. You make up others. You start sometimes…
— Tim O'Brien
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Clairvoyant, Hornblower could foresee that in a year's time, the world would hardy remember the incident. In twenty years, it would be entirely forgotten. Yet…
— C S Forester
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My life is just a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents.
— Russell Brand
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What a host of little incidents, all deep-buried in the past -- problems that had once been urgent, arguments that had once been keen, anecdotes…
— James Hilton
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Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won’t enter into a story. They have…
— Donald Miller
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The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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There was surely nothing to indicate at the time that such evidently small incidents would render whole dreams forever irredeemable.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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