Now And Then Quotes - Page 10

• Oh if life were made of moments Even now and then a bad one--! But if life were only moments, Then you'd never know you had one.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Moments, Made, Knows

  Stephen Sondheim, Hudson Talbott, James Lapine (2002). “Into the Woods”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes I think there's a beast that lives inside me, in the cavern that's where my heart should be, and every now and then it fills every last inch of my skin, so that I can't help but do something inappropriate. Its breath is full of lies; it smells of spite.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Heart, Thinking

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.534, Simon and Schuster

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• We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

  Jodi Picoult

  Life, Challenges, Mess

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

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• It’s the leftover humans. The survivors. They’re the ones I can’t stand to look at, although on many occasions I still fail. I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair, and surprises. They have punctured hearts. They have beaten lungs. Which in turn brings me to the subject I am telling you about tonight, or today, or whatever the hour and color. It’s the story of one of those perpetual survivors –an expert at being left behind.

  Markus Zusak

  Heart, Jigsaw Puzzles, Color

  "The Book Thief". Book by Markus Zusak, 2007.

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• There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Pain, Loneliness, Heart

  FaceBook post by Hubert Selby, Jr. from Jan 23, 2013

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• ...life every now and then becomes literature...as if life had been made and not happened.

  Norman Maclean

  Literature, Made, Happened

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• ...but even strong women need an arm to lean on now and then. (Anna Whitney in Glory in Death)

  Nora Roberts

  Strong Women, Needs, Arms

  "Glory In Death". Book by J. D. Robb, 1995.

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• Sometimes desire is air, sometimes desire is liquid. And every now and then, when everything else is air and liquid, desire solidifies, and the body is the magnet that draws its weight.

  David Levithan

  Air, Desire, Weight

  David Levithan (2011). “The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel”, p.20, Macmillan

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• In the classics section, she had picked up a copy of The Magic Mountain and recalled the summer between her junior and senior years of high school, when she read it, how she lay in bed hours after she should have gotten up, the sheet growing warmer against her skin as the sun rose higher in the sky, her mother poking her head in now and then to see if she'd gotten up yet, but never suggesting that she should: Eleanor didn't have many rules about child rearing, but one of them was this: Never interrupt reading.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Summer, Senior, Mother

  Elizabeth Berg (2009). “Home Safe: A Novel”, p.228, Random House

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• When somebody walks out, it leaves a hole in you. Some people fill it up, the good and the bad, and get on that way. Some people leave it open, maybe long enough to heal, maybe too long, picking at it now and then so it doesn't heal all the way.

  Nora Roberts

  Long, People, Way

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Chasing Fire”, p.359, Penguin

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• Even when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships — and nice, jolly little times with people.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Dream, Real, Nice

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “Anne's House of Dreams”, p.66, Gideon House Books

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• In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then-- ruins more than that, if you're not careful.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Lonely, Romance, Ruins

  Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Swan Thieves”, p.302, Hachette UK

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• In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Struggle, Humility, Passion

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.139, Applewood Books

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• Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Fashion, Comfort, World

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.426, Delphi Classics

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• We're all entitled to a little stupidity now and then.

  David Eddings

  Stupidity, Littles, Entitled

  "The Seeress of Kell".

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• Don't be ashamed of reliving your childhood, Ox, because all of us must do it now and then to maintain our sanity.

  Barry Hughart

  Childhood, Sanity, Ashamed

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• Happiness of heart can never be measured out and bundled up, it's intangible. We keep running after it, grasping for it, and the heat of our running so seldom brings it closer. But now and then there may be a moment. We look at something and know it is good and beautiful. Those moments are happiness.

  Gladys Taber

  Beautiful, Running, Heart

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• Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Doe, Want, Waste

  E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

  Pablo Picasso

  Doors, Stones, Paint

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• I looked like a woman in glasses, but I had dreams of leading a very different kind of life, the life of a woman who would not wear glasses, the kind of woman I saw from a distance now and then in a bar.

  Lydia Davis

  Dream, Distance, Glasses

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• Rather, very, little, pretty - these are the leeches that infest the pond of prose, sucking the blood of words. The constant use of the adjective little (except to indicate size) is particularly debilitating; we should all try to do a little better, we should all be very watchful of this rule, for it is a rather important one, and we are pretty sure to violate it now and then.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Blood, Important, Trying

  "The Elements of Style". Book by William Strunk Jr. Chapter V: "An Approach to Style", 1918.

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• I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Art, Book

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• You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Cities, Perfect

  Gore Vidal, Richard Peabody, Lucinda Ebersole (2005). “Conversations with Gore Vidal”, p.137, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.

  Orson Scott Card

  Wise, Roots, People

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.81, Macmillan

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• ...and you don't even have to sleep alone, you don't even have to sleep at all; and so, all you have to do is show the stick to the dog now and then and say, 'Thank God for nothing.'

  William Faulkner

  Dog, Sleep, Thank God

  "Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner".

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