Scene Quotes
2052 Scene quotes by 1583 unique authors
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To be a righteous woman during the winding up scenes on this earth, before the second coming of our Savior, is an especially noble calling...…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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Doug returned five minutes later and shook his head. "Sorry kid. She's single, but she doesn't think you're her type. She's into the Goth and…
— Richelle Mead
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In the spring or warmer weather when the snow thaws in the woods the tracks of winter reappear on slender pedestals and the snow reveals…
— Cormac McCarthy
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No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals were not expelled from Paradise.…
— Milan Kundera
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In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it, I couldn't tell.…
— Haruki Murakami
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You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted into Miss Columbias, eagles plucked raw on the backs of quarters,…
— Ray Bradbury
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A moral character is attached to autumnal scenes; the leaves falling like our years, the flowers fading like our hours, the clouds fleeting like our…
— François-René de Chateaubriand
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Inside him, twenty years dissolved and mixed into one complex, swirling whole. Everything that had accumulated over the years-- all he had seen, all the…
— Haruki Murakami
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And even if these scenes from our youth were given back to us we would hardly know what to do. The tender, secret influence that…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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Don't go into great detail describing places and things, unless you're Margaret Atwood and can paint scenes with language. You don't want descriptions that bring…
— Elmore Leonard
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I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends.
— Ernest Hemingway
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When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and…
— Jane Austen
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for my grief's so great That no supporter but the huge firm earth Can hold it up: here I and sorrows sit; Here is my…
— William Shakespeare
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……, but as I am a scholar I feel obliged to document what it is like here, most of the time, between the dramatic climaxes.…
— Margaret Edson
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O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)
— William Shakespeare
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You need me, just whistle," he said as he arranged his ball cap over his eyes against the sun leaking through the frost-emptied branches. "You're…
— Kim Harrison
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I am simply not interested, at this point, in creating narrative scenes between characters.
— Lydia Davis
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Hello, darling. Sorry about that. Sorry about the bony elbows, sorry we lived here, sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and…
— Richard Siken
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But because me and myself, as you no doubt are well aware, we are going to die, my relation—and yours too—to the event of this…
— Jacques Derrida
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Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.
— George Orwell
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I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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We were the ones on scene when everything went down. We weren't better. We weren't worse. We were just the ones standing in the blast…
— Mira Grant
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With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the most ordinary street scenes had become…
— Orhan Pamuk
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Part a of scene from 'Bitterblue' between Madlen (Bitterblue's medicine woman) and Bitterblue: Madlen came to sit beside her [Bitterblue] on the bed. "Lady Queen,"…
— Kristin Cashore
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Get your hand off me,” I exclaimed, voice loud with misplaced anger as I yanked away from his grip. “I’m a professional, not some distraught…
— Kim Harrison
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