Now And Then Quotes - Page 11

• If I was ever to have a child, this is what I'd tell it: 'Child,' I'd say, 'don't never mess with time. Keep now now and then then. And if you ever get lost in thick smoke, child, set still till it clears. Set still till you can see where you are and where you been and where you're going, child.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Children, Lost, Where You Are

  Kurt Vonnegut (2008). “Armageddon in Retrospect”, p.59, Penguin

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• Now and then I see something in her eyes, and I wonder if I’ve ever grasped how much pain she’s really in.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Pain, Eye, Wonder

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• I couldn't have spoken like this yesterday, because when we've been apart, and I'm looking forward to seeing you, every thought is burnt up in a great flame. But then you come; and you're so much more than I remembered, and what I want of you is so much more than an hour or two every now and then, with wastes of thirsty waiting between, that I can sit perfectly still beside you, like this, with that other vision in my mind, just quietly trusting it to come true.

  Edith Wharton

  Flames, Two, Yesterday

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2147, Delphi Classics

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• We all remain who we are. But on the way to healing or liberation we have to do what the Romans called agere contra: we have to act against the grain of our natural compulsions. This requires clear decisions. Because it does not happen by itself, it is in a way "unnatural" or "supernatural" . . . (we) simply have to cut loose now and then, and in the process . . . make mistakes.

  Richard Rohr

  Mistake, Healing, Cutting

  Richard Rohr, Andreas Ebert (2001). “The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we 'understand.' Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word now and then.

  Orson Scott Card

  Thinking, Lucky, Guessing

  "Xenocide". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1991.

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• There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back again from my wanderings to the living heart of the world. Sadly and yet deeply moved, I set myself to recall the last of these experiences. It was at a concert of lovely old music. After two of three notes of the piano the door was opened of a sudden to the other world. I sped through heaven and saw God at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart.

  Hermann Hesse

  Wall, Pain, Heart

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• Some people, every now and then, simply had to have One Too Many, go drifty voiced and slouch mouthed, swimming willfully around in their own sadness as if it were hot springs.

  Marisha Pessl

  Spring, Sadness, Swimming

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.203, Penguin

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• Lucy: I don't understand men. Nettie: What is there to understand? If you feed 'em regular-like and give 'em a bit of 'sugar' now and then, they're easy enough. And if they don't behave, you just toss 'em out on their arses. That's what I always say.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Men, Giving, Arses

  Sabrina Jeffries (2018). “Don't Bargain with the Devil”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• Although, I admit, I desire, Occasionally, some backtalk From the mute sky, I can't honestly complain: A certain minor light may still Lean incandescent Out of kitchen table or chair As if a celestial burning took Possession of the most obtuse objects now and then --

  Sylvia Plath

  Light, Sky, Kitchen

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• A novel is a commodity that fulfills a certain need; people need to buy daydreams like they need to buy ice cream or aspirin or gin. They even need to buy a pinch of intellectual catnip now and then to liven up their thoughts.

  John Dos Passos

  Ice Cream, People, Intellectual

  John Dos Passos (1964). “Occasions and protests”

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• Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, "Why are there beings at all instead of nothing"- this is obviously the first of all questions. Of course it is not the first question in the chronological sense [...] And yet, we are each touched once, maybe even every now and then, by the concealed power of this question, without properly grasping what is happening to us. In great despair, for example, when all weight tends to dwindle away from things and the sense of things grows dark, the question looms.

  Martin Heidegger

  Dark, Despair, Example

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• Children, like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way...Or now and then we'll hear from an artisit who's never lost it.

  Eudora Welty

  Children, Artist, Animal

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• An historian should yield himself to his subject, become immersed in the place and period of his choice, standing apart from it now and then for a fresh view.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Yield, Views, History

  Samuel Eliot Morison (1964). “Vistas of history”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed? She could find nothing, for he had left nothing but his stunning absence.

  Toni Morrison

  Butterfly, Tangible, Reeds

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?

  Jodi Picoult

  Names, Judging, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• It's healthy to ditch class now and then." To be precise, it was healthier for humans if vampires ditched on days when human blood would be spilt.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Blood, Class, Healthy

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• Every now and then, I'll run into someone who claims not to like chocolate, and while we live in a country where everyone has the right to eat what they want, I want to say for the record that I don't trust these people, that I think something is wrong with them, and that they're probably - and this must be said - total duds in bed.

  Steve Almond

  Running, Country, Thinking

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• It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

  Christopher Morley

  Running, Science, Glasses

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.12, Melville House

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• I was playing video games LONG before I ever thought about playing football. If it wasn't for my parents making sure that I got outside every now and then as a child, I probably would've pursued some sort of tech path.

  Chris Kluwe

  Football, Children, Games

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• When I get 13 or 14 years old, I get crazy with rock music, like, like, deeply crazy. And one of my favorite bands at that moment was, for example, like - bands like Metallica or Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd and Santana, you know? And then I start to play metal, actually, when I was - at the age of 15.

  Juanes

  Crazy, Rocks, Years

  "Colombian Singer Juanes Is a Savvy Businessman". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block and Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. November 26, 2007.

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• people like to keep their little secrets to themselves. It's like growing mushrooms in the cellar and running down to take a look at them now and then.

  Marjorie Kellogg

  Running, Mushrooms, People

  Marjorie Kellogg (1968). “Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon”

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• Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lucky, Genius, Sparrows

  Samuel Johnson (1803). “The Lives of the Most Prominent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works”, p.175

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• True diva could not live without smart remark every now and then, a good sip of water.

  Mariah Carey

  Smart, Water, Remarks

  "Mariah Carey Dishes On 40 Things You Need To Know About Her". Interview with Brian Galindo, www.buzzfeed.com. June 3, 2015.

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• What I have found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Somewhere Else, Should, Found

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• Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Fall, Genius, Climbs

  Louisa May Alcott (2016). “Jo's Boys: Top Novelist Focus”, p.102, 谷月社

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