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Always Quotes (page 362)

I've always been able to say what I meant! It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone, so why can't I saw what it feels like? Stephen King
Albert Einstein quote: "The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me..."
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth. Albert Einstein
Pablo Neruda quote: "When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent,..."
When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say. Pablo Neruda
Witold Gombrowicz quote: "It was too late to retreat - the world exists only because it..."
It was too late to retreat - the world exists only because it is always too late to retreat. Witold Gombrowicz
I'll be a story in your head. That's okay. We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? 'Cause it was, you know. It was the best. The daft old man who stole a magic box and ran away. Did I ever tell you that I stole it? Well I borrowed it. I was always going to take it back. Steven Moffat
I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do. To dream, to live in the world of dreams. But it doesn’t last forever. Wakefulness always comes to take me back. Haruki Murakami
Terry Prachett quote: "We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if..."
We sleepwalk through our lives, because how could we live if we were always this awake? Terry Prachett
...really, what a strange man he is, thought klara, with that aching feeling of loneliness which always overcomes us when someone dear to us surrenders to a daydream in which we have no place. Vladimir Nabokov
The widespread willingness to rely on thermonuclear bombs as the ultimate weapon displays a cavalier attitude toward death that has always puzzled me. My impression is that...most of the defenders of these weapons are not suitably horrified at the possibility of a war in which hundreds of millions of people would be killed...I suspect that an important factor may be belief in an afterlife, and that the proporttion of those who think that death is not the end is much higher among the... Thomas Nagel
George: 'Ringo would always say grammmatically incorrect phrases and we'd all laugh. I remember when we were driving back to Liverpool from Luton up the M1 motorway in Ringo's Zephyr, and the car's bonnet hadn't been latched properly. The wind got under it and blew it up in front of the windscreen. We were all shouting, 'Aaaargh!' and Ringo calmly said, 'Don't worry, I'll soon have you back in your safely-beds. George Harrison
Elizabeth Gilbert quote: "You know how some people look like their dogs? I think maybe..."
You know how some people look like their dogs? I think maybe you always look like your men. Elizabeth Gilbert
When smart people are nice, it's always terrifying, because I know they're taking in everything and thinking all kinds of smart and potentially judgmental things. Mindy Kaling
Why, my man is created from the outside, that is, he is inauthentic in essence- he is always not-himself, because he is determined by form, which is born between people. His "I", therefore, is marked for him in that "interhumanity." An eternal actor, but a natural one, because his artificiality is inborn, it makes up a feature of his humanity-to be a man means to be an actor-to be a man means to pretend to be a man-to be a man means to "act like" a man while not being one deep inside-to be... Witold Gombrowicz
Martin Amis quote: "I've got two backs, me - and I'm glad! Tits can be . . . mwa,..."
I've got two backs, me - and I'm glad! Tits can be . . . mwa, I know, but they're always in the bloody road. Even in bed. Martin Amis
This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible. Franz Kafka

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