Scene Quotes

2052 Scene quotes by 1583 unique authors

A handful of men working within the Zen sect of Buddhism created gardens in fifteenth-century Japan which were, and still are, far more than merely… — Russell Page
I would comment on the scene, but I've never kissed a woman so I don't really have anything to add... — Todd Grisham
The ACLU spent this entire holiday season protesting public displays of the nativity scene. Yeah, that's the problem with America right now: Public displays of… — Dennis Miller
Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's… — Al Roker
The South is the land of the sustained sibilant. Everywhere, for the appreciative visitor, the letter "s" insinuates itself in the scene: in the sound… — Elwyn Brooks White
The criminal is not alone when he returns to the scene of the crime; he is joined there by his victim, and both are driven… — Elie Wiesel
I don't like to be described as a Southern writer. The danger is, if you're described as a Southern writer, you might be thought of… — Walker Percy
Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted… — Charles Dickens
A good movie is three good scenes and no bad scenes. — Howard Hawks
Hope calculates its scenes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; and grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often… — Joseph Addison
One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay… — Cynthia Ozick
What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who… — Virginia Woolf
We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our… — Thomas Carlyle
Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls. The key is always to speak… — John Burroughs
What a strange scene if the surge of conversation could suddenly ebb like the tide, and show us the real state of people's minds. — Walter Scott
We who follow Christ are men and women of eternity. We must put no confidence in the passing scenes of the disappearing world. We must… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The electro scene is all over the clubs now: groups like Duck Sauce, Empire of the Sun, even MGMT. But I get inspiration from everywhere.… — Fergie
God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder — does He want to be found, or does He want to… — Robert Breault
Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing… — Jonathan Swift
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable quality in a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene… — Andre Gide
Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene. — John Dryden
If I've done my work well, I vanish completely from the scene. I believe it is invasive of the work when you know too much… — Mary Oliver
To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas… — Margaret Fuller
Looking back now on the whole sexual scene we can see that our species has remained much more loyal to its basic biological urges than… — Desmond Morris

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