Sneak Quotes - Page 10

• Motivation is like love and happiness. It's a by-product. When you're actively engaged in doing something, it sneaks up and zaps you when you least expect it.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivation, Like Love, Happiness And Love

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “Failing Forward”, p.43, Harper Collins

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We should absolutely be concerned with ethical questions - to exactly the same degree as everyone else. It's never my intention to sneak any kind of sermon into a story - I've got no business preaching, and besides, that kind of thing plays poorly in fiction, always has.

  Roy Kesey

  Ethical Questions, Play, Degrees

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The sneak-peeks you get off the top are of them in their real life. You're more invested, you know both of them, and you've already made assumptions. A murder who would murders someone - that makes them immediately bad - but here you see them in a different.

  Kristin Lehman

  Real, Different, Assumption

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Trevor was as menacing as he was gorgeous. If he were a vampire, he'd be the dark kind, the kind that sneaks up on innocent girls and bites without a thought.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Girl, Dark, Vampire

  4 Copy quote

• I used to hate swimming at school so much that I would always sneak downstairs in the middle of the night and take my swimming costume out of my gym bag and hide it in the house somewhere. Then I'd never have to go swimming at school. This went on for months and I never got caught and my Mum turned into a nervous wreck because the thought she was losing her memory... and then one day she caught me and got super angry. That was kind of bad.

  Charli XCX

  Memories, Hate, School

  Source: coupdemainmagazine.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• He hadn’t been peeping intentionally; he’d been trying to sneak into my room. So that was slightly less creepy, I supposed.

  Amanda Hocking

  Creepy, Trying, Rooms

  4 Copy quote

• Jace perched on the windowsill and looked down at him. "You really don't get this bodyguard thing, do you?" "I didn't even think you liked me all that much," said Simon. "Is this one of those keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer things?" "I thought it was keep your friends close so you have someone to drive the car when you sneak over to your enemy's house a night and throw up in his mailbox." "I'm pretty sure that's not it

  Cassandra Clare

  Night, Thinking, Car

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• What I've found as I have kept writing stories is that more and more your way is barred. I feel really choked by what I already know how to do, by the fact that my obsessions nearly always mount a sneak attack, so that I find myself writing another version of the same thing.

  Catherine Brady

  Writing, Stories, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source