Scene Quotes

2052 Scene quotes by 1583 unique authors

What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a… — William Maxwell
Everybody has their own America, and then they have pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can’t see…So the… — Andy Warhol
Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene. — John Barth
Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
...the long train ride was like traveling through limbo. You weren't anywhere when you were on a train, she decided. You weren't where you had… — Katherine Paterson
...the people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand things about one another; meetings which could take… — Italo Calvino
Violence is so terribly fast . . . the most perverse thing about the movies is the way they portray it in slow motion, allowing… — Jim Carroll
Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is! (Act 1,… — William Shakespeare
There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4) — William Shakespeare
A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels as miserable as… — William Shakespeare
So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that… — William T. Vollmann
It has been said that Ernest Hemingway would rewrite scenes until they pleased him, often thirty or forty times. Hemingway, critics claimed, was a genius.… — James N. Frey
Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording—all this… — Sylvia Plath
Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes… — William Shakespeare
At least Lester had the decency to weep at his act of perfidy. Reader, do you know what 'perfidy' means? I have a feeling you… — Kate DiCamillo
When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do… — James Dean
It is the same in life: sometimes it is more difficult to make a scene than to die. — Graham Greene
...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium. — Dean Koontz
Directors are always changing things at the last minute. Actors will do a scene, and the director will say, ‘Okay, that was perfect, but this… — Dave Barry
Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast — Bob Dylan
Faith—is the Pierless Bridge Supporting what We see Unto the Scene that We do not— Too slender for the eye It bears the Soul as… — Emily Dickinson
If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale… — Winston Churchill
If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene.… — Leo Buscaglia
This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I… — Napoleon Bonaparte

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