Left Out Quotes - Page 3

• Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.

  Junot Diaz

  Years, Venus, Firsts

  Junot Diaz (2008). “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”, p.23, Faber & Faber

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• I came to the table, pulled up a chair, and sat. “Everyone brought a pet. I feel left out.” An enthusiastic howl broke the silence, and Grendel bounded through the doorway. He galloped through the steak house, skidded on the floor, smashed into my chair, and dropped a dead rat on my lap. Awesome.

  Ilona Andrews

  Steak House, Silence, Pet

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.222, Penguin

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• In a very real way, one writes a story to find out what happens in it. Before it is written it sits in the mind like a piece of overheard gossip or a bit of intriguing tattle. The story process is like taking up such a piece of gossip, hunting down the people actually involved, questioning them, finding out what really occurred, and visiting pertinent locations. As with gossip, you can't be too surprised if important things turn up that were left out of the first-heard version entirely; or if points initially made much of turn out to have been distorted, or simply not to have happened at all.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Real, Writing, Hunting

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• Place unopened pouch in warm water for 5-10 minutes. Unopened pouch may be laid on a warm surface. Lay unopened pouch in direct sunlight. Not much chance of that down here. Place unopened pouch inside you shirt, allow you body temperature to warm your MRE. I was surprised they left out: Place unopened pouch on ground and pee on it.

  S.A. Bodeen

  Water, Body, May

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• We cannot study creativeness in an ultimate sense until we realize that practically all the definitions that we have been using of creativeness are essentially male or masculine definitions of male or masculine products. We've left out of consideration almost entirely the creativeness of women.

  Abraham Maslow

  Males, Definitions, Study

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• I borrowed this from Kyle. My other shirt was pretty filthy." "Wow, you're wearing each other's clothes now. That's, like, best friend stuff." "Feeling left out?" said Kyle. "I suppose you want to borrow a black T-shirt too." "As long as everyone's wearing their own pants." "I see have come in on a fascinating moment in the conversation." Eric poked his head through the curtain.

  Cassandra Clare

  Clothes, Long, Feelings

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• It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent and hot...It's the eighth deadly sin. The one God left out, Hope.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Hot, Sin, Violent

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• Normal! He thought. Normal! I don't want things to be normal. Normal is always being left out, never belonging.

  Paul Stewart

  Normal, Want, Left

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• Of course, Steven Gerrard is one of only a few Liverpool players who never get left out by Rafa; and even he doesn't always get picked.

  David Pleat

  Player, Courses, Left

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• I think for most people, the audience probably couldn't tell the difference, but I know they [shots of visual effects] can be better. And the people working know they can be more precise. I'm still doing another round of sound mixing and color timing, pretty technical stuff. I think the movie [Life of Pi] is really presentable, nothing was left out that would take you out of the movie. I just need to perfect the job and I still have two weeks to go [to deliver final cut to Fox].

  Ang Lee

  Jobs, Thinking, Two

  "Ang Lee Talks LIFE OF PI, the Difficulty of Getting the Project Off the Ground, 3D as a New Artistic Form, Deleted Scenes and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. October 3, 2012.

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• What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.

  Terence McKenna

  Psychedelic, States, Description

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• And any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning's will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8 film left out in the rain, without sound, and quickly replaced by thousands of silently growing trees.

  Douglas Coupland

  Morning, Rain, Tree

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• All of the Ten Commandments that are good were old; all that were new art foolish. If Jehovah had been civilized he would have left out the commandment about keeping the Sabbath, and in its place would have said: "Thou shalt not enslave thy fellow-men." He would have omitted the one about swearing, and said: "The man shall have but one wife, and the woman but one husband." He would have left out the one about graven images, and in its stead would have said: "Thou shalt not wage wars of extermination, and thou shalt not unsheathe the sword except in self-defence.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Art, Husband, War

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• Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.

  Dawn Powell

  Writing, People, Satire

  Dawn Powell (1995). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell, 1931-1965”

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• The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant people are. With anyone over fifty you can be fairly confident what's been taught and what's been left out. But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into depths of confusion you didn't know existed.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Intelligent, People, Confusion

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• I had forgotten that, and so many things. How could I put everything down on paper? It seemed impossible. No matter what, the majority of life would be left out of this story, this sliver of a version of the life I'd known. But I tried anyway.

  Dave Eggers

  Majority, Would Be, Stories

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• One thing living in Japan did for me was to make me feel that what is left out of a work of art is as important as, if not more important than, what is put in.

  Katherine Paterson

  Art, Japan, Important

  Katherine Paterson (2001). “The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children”, Dutton Juvenile

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• Nor is a day lived if the dawn is left out of it, with the prospects it opens. Who speaks charmingly of nature or of mankind, like him who comes bibulous of sunrise and the fountains of waters?

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Morning, Water, Sunrise

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1868). “Tablets”, p.62

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• Today, I say that no nation in the world need be left out of the global system we are constructing.

  Madeleine Albright

  Needs, World, Today

  "Albright Sees an Ambitious World Mission for U.S". Harvard University commencement speech, www.nytimes.com. June 6, 1997.

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• I think, as the writer, you're always going to mourn something [left out of a film]. But you also just want to know there's a good reason for it being left out. On the whole, you want to give something to somebody creative. The worst thing you can do is say, "Here, be creative, but do it like I want you to do it." I was always very mindful of that.

  Markus Zusak

  Thinking, Giving, Creative

  Source: collider.com

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• I don't want to be a basket case on set. I try to sort of quiet all of that, all those thoughts, kinda just let yourself be aware of them when you're preparing to do the work but then once you get there you have to feel as free as possible. Anything that I perceived as something that ran the risk of stressing me out, I just left outside the studio doors because I didn't want to undermine myself.

  Katherine Waterston

  Stress, Doors, Risk

  Source: collider.com

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• Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Drama, Believe, Mind

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• One day you're racing about the business of life, harried but vital, a part of its machinery. Then gradually but inexorably you are left out, until one day you find the machinery tearing along without you - and nobody even notices.

  Marjorie Holmes

  Racing, Age, One Day

  Marjorie Holmes (1995). “Marjorie Holmes: The Inspirational Writings: A Collection Consisting of Love and Laughter;...”, Bbs Publishing Corporation

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• The whole town looks as if it had been left out in the rain too long and by mistake.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Mistake, Rain, Long

  Linda Ellerbee (1991). “Move on: adventures in the real world”, Putnam Pub Group

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• A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.

  Freya Stark

  Art, Silence, Void

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.193, I.B.Tauris

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