Scene Quotes
2052 Scene quotes by 1583 unique authors
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It was the old New York way...the way people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing…
— Edith Wharton
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I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes. I think…
— Marilynne Robinson
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Well, finally, the events I've been through have been tremendously complicated. All kinds of characters have come on the scene, and strange things have happened…
— Haruki Murakami
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Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans…
— William Shakespeare
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Another year is fast approaching. Go be that starving artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it…
— Jason Mraz
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To live your best life now, you must learn to trust God’s timing, you may not think He’s working, but you can be sure that…
— Joel Osteen
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Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in.
— William Shakespeare
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We need more bodies, 'cause it's not looking enough like the last scene in Hamlet already. --Chopper Jim Chopin
— Dana Stabenow
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Before you tell yourself its a different scene remember its just different from what you've seen.
— Corey Taylor
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How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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You know what this is?" Lula said. "This here's plane rage." Plane rage isn't allowed. It got taken off the allowed activities list along with…
— Janet Evanovich
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Talk—half-talk, phrases that had no need to be finished, abstractions, Chinese bells played on with cotton-tipped sticks, mock orange blossoms painted on porcelain. The muffled,…
— Anais Nin
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Everyone knows that a lot of memoirs have made-up scenes; it's obvious. And everyone knows that half the time at least fictions contain literal autobiographical…
— Lauren Slater
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If the day should ever come when we must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam…
— Joseph Goebbels
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It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would…
— Bernhard Schlink
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the…
— Tennessee Williams
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Anyone who has chanced like me to roam through desolate mountains and studied at length their fantastic shapes and drunk the invigorating air of their…
— Mikhail Lermontov
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Here is something that Peach, one of the Casserole Queens, says about men and women and love. You know that scene in Romeo and Juliet,…
— Deb Caletti
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I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I put my fingers around the unmarked ring of the spyglass and twisted. The scene became clear. Oh no! A hairy brown spider clung to…
— Gail Carson Levine
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Death is just the last scene of the last act.
— Joyce Carol Oates
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I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being…
— Lucille Clifton
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Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage…
— Aimee Mann
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Ginny came in to visit while you were unconscious", he said, after a long pause, and Harry's imagination zoomed into overdrive, rapidly constructing a scene…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Perhaps things are most beautiful when they are not quite real; when you look upon a scene as an outsider, and come to possess it…
— Mark Helprin
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