Seated Quotes
158 Seated quotes by 149 unique authors
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From daydreams on the road there was no waking. He plodded on. He could remember everything of her save her scent. Seated in a theatre…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Was it all inevitable, John?" Reeve was pushing his fingers across the floor of the cell, seated on his haunches. I was lying on the…
— Ian Rankin
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Artemis: "Right, brothers. Onward. Imagine yourself seated at a cafe in Montmartre." Myles: "In Paris." Artemis: "Yes, Paris. And try as you will, you cannot…
— Eoin Colfer
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I'm on the verge of tears by the time we arrive at Pastels since I'm positive we won't get seated but the table is good,…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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There was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colors still gave her that look of deep-seated health and…
— Willa Cather
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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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His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his profession…He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by a deep inner…
— Milan Kundera
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Once I was seated, I couldn't help people-watching. I'll admit it, I'm an addict from way back.
— James Patterson
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Do you have a little white dress? I've had this deep-seated nurse fantasy about you, Murphy.
— Jim Butcher
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Shadowfax tossed his head and cried aloud, as if a trumpet had summoned him to battle. Then he sprang forward. Fire flew from his feet;…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy....
— Isabel Allende
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How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the words and my…
— W G Sebald
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Bell seated himself behind the desk, motioning for Nancy to stand opposite him. There was tense silence for a moment. Then Bell reached for a…
— Carolyn Keene
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You have deep-seated survival anxieties. And you don't like bigots, bullies, snobs or hypocrites. Subconsciously there are many people you hate." "Consciously, sir, consciously," Yossarian…
— Joseph Heller
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In a fallen world marked by human depravity and deep-seated sin, in a world where Hitler and Stalin had recruited millions of followers to commit…
— Timothy B. Tyson
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It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn…
— Herman Melville
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Snowflakes swirl down gently in the deep blue haze beyond the window. The outside world is a dream. Inside, the fireplace is brightly lit, and…
— Vera Nazarian
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He begged to know to which of his fair cousins the excellency of its cookery was owing. Briefly forgetting her manners, Mary grabbed her fork…
— Seth Grahame-Smith
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The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a deep-seated conviction that…
— Pema Chodron
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Are you acquainted with the mood of mind in which, if you were seated alone, and the cat licking its kitten on the rug before…
— Emily Bronte
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Oakbridge did his work with dramatics and prophecies that all would go horribly awry. Having dealt with him over midwinter, Kel wondered why the man…
— Tamora Pierce
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I don't believe Barrons is out to destroy mankind. I don't think he particularly cares much for mankind, but I don't think he has any…
— Karen Marie Moning
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If it is true that there is no greater sorrow than to remember a happy time in a state of misery, it is just as…
— Primo Levi
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...in spite of the deep-seated craving for love, almost everything else is considered to be more important than love: success, prestige, money, power-almost all our…
— Erich Fromm
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