Scene Quotes
2052 Scene quotes by 1583 unique authors
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My boy, that was a TV show. I used a stunt double. I always use a stunt double. Except in love scenes. I insist on…
— William Shatner
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She knew with suddeness and ease that this moment would be with her always, within hand's reach of memory. She doubted if they all sensed…
— Stephen King
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The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as…
— William Faulkner
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Hey, what is it with you? Why are you so spaced out? You still haven't answered me." I probably still haven't completely adapted to the…
— Haruki Murakami
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Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?
— David Mamet
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Aristotle may be regarded as the cultural barometer of Western history. Whenever his influence dominated the scene, it paved the way for one of history's…
— Ayn Rand
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When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt — we are phantoms…
— Jostein Gaarder
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For at least twenty minutes she handed out the story. The youngest kids were soothed by her voice, and everyone else saw visions of the…
— Markus Zusak
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O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to…
— William Shakespeare
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Fang looked at me, hope in his eyes, and I smirked at him. I save the huge emotional kissy-face for imminent death scenes. This probably…
— James Patterson
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I'm sure you could have. Fending off unwanted male attention is a skill every attractive woman must acquire. But you're also a lady who was…
— Sandra Brown
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Light died in the west. Night and tears took the Nation. The star of Water drifted among the clouds like a murderer softly leaving the…
— Terry Pratchett
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My God, that scene in Monster Inc. where the monsters realise that their entire world is founded on hurting children -look at that for a…
— Russell T Davies
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Mircea must have heard us come in, but he continued what he was doing. He stood with his back to us, the candlelight on his…
— Karen Chance
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One more thing: Linda, can you get to Canterbury and take over my Chaucerian Society? They're at Dovecote Hostelry in the old city. We're visiting…
— Cinda Williams Chima
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Minnesotans who bought scenic art usually avoided winter scenes. Hannah didn't find that surprising. Minnesota winters were long. Why would they want to buy a…
— Joanne Fluke
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There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person knows that, is it any wonder love…
— Clive Barker
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It was like the classic scene in the movies where one lover is on the train and one is on the platform and the train…
— Lorrie Moore
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I sometimes fancy," said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, "that Rome--mere Rome--will crowd everything else out of my heart.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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A good leg will fall, a straight back will stoop, a black beard will turn white, a curled pate will grow bald, a fair face…
— William Shakespeare
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Pleasant is a rainy winter's day, within doors! The best study for such a day, or the best amusement,—call it which you will,—is a book…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the general…
— Virginia Woolf
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Gert: Wake me when the fight scene's over. Kitty Pryde: Oy, tell me about it. Hey, I'm Kitty. You the token pacifist of your group?…
— Brian K. Vaughan
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It was very different when the masters of science sought immortality and power; such views, although futile, were grand: but now the scene was changed.…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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It made me wonder if the reasons our lives seem so muddled is because we keep walking into scenes in which we, along with the…
— Donald Miller
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