Standing Out Quotes - Page 17

• I sit quietly and think about my mom. It's funny how memory erodes, If all I had to work from were my childhood memories, my knowledge of my mother would be faded and soft, with a few sharp memories standing out.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Mom, Mother, Memories

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• the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.

  Donald Miller

  Stories, Harder

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• You stand out like a fart in a church.

  James Patterson

  Church, Maximum Ride, Fart

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• I always do the wrong. I do the wrong thing so much that the times I actually do the right thing stand out so brightly in my memory that I forget I always do the wrong thing.

  Lorrie Moore

  Memories, Forget, Wrong Things

  Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.36, Faber & Faber

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• It was nice standing out in the darkness, in the damp grass, with spring coming on and a feeling in my heart of imminent disaster.

  Michael Chabon

  Spring, Nice, Heart

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Wonder Boys”, p.58, Open Road Media

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• Stop it. This is serious! (Selena) Serious? Please. I’m standing out here on my twenty-ninth birthday, barefoot and in jeans my mother would burn, holding a stupid book to my chest in an effort to summon a Greek love-slave from the great beyond. (Grace)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mother, Stupid, Book

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• Because I have no boobs. My ears stand out, and I have freckles all over me. (Grace) Boobs? (Julian) Breasts. (Grace) You have very nice breasts. (Julian) Thanks. What about you? (Grace) I have no breasts. (Julian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Nice, Grace, Ears

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• I know what the problem is, of course. The disorientation, the distraction, the difficulty focusing - all classic Phase One signs of deliria. But I don't care. If pneumonia felt this good I'd stand out in the snow in the winter with bare feet and no coat, or march into the hospital and kiss pneumonia patients

  Lauren Oliver

  Winter, Kissing, Feet

  Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.171, Hachette UK

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• I am thrilled FLIRT! tapped into me to be their new Style Ambassador. I love FLIRT! products because they help me express my own personal style - especially when I want to stand out on set or in the crowd. What could be more fun than getting to play with makeup and fragrance and tell people all about it!

  Heather Morris

  Fun, Flirting, Makeup

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• I think a lot of young kids at school are very conscious of trying to keep credibility in case they kind of stand out in a crowd and get bullied by trying to stay cool and stuff. And my whole thing, all the way through school, was I was just a goof... I didn't care.

  Dominic Monaghan

  School, Kids, Thinking

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. December 16, 2003.

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• Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated. Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing. They both have a tendency to blur the lines of what we call norms, or established reality. They both, when we study that grand tapestry known as history and modern-day society, tend to stand out in much bolder relief than other figures. -- from Dancing with Madness, Dancing with Genius

  Aberjhani

  Reality, Dancing, Quality

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• England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, England

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• Hey Sydney," she said, giving me a small, crooked smile as she entered the room. Her flashing, dark eyes were friendly, but they were also assessing everything in the room, much as Eddie's gaze was. It was a guardian thing. Rose was about my height and dressed very casually in jeans and a red tank top. But, as always, there was something as exotic and dangerous about her beauty that made her stand out from everyone else. She was like a tropical flower in this dark, stuffy room. One that could kill you.

  Richelle Mead

  Flower, Eye, Dark

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.38, Penguin

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• Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

  Ayrton Senna

  Blood, Racing, Formula 1

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• It didn't help matters that I was shy and wore glasses. I was never one to stand out in the crowd. I liked to stay in corners. And I was happiest when I was alone reading. That and the good grades I got in school had doomed any chance of being popular with my peers. So it was a foregone conclusion that boys like Hardy were never going to take notice of me.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Reading, School, Boys

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.367, St. Martin's Press

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• I want to do it too!" (sitting motionless) Nudge: "Nope, you stand out like a fart in a church." Max: (muttering) "Appropriately enough." Iggy: "What about me?" (stands still) Max: "No, you're visible." Iggy: "Am not!" Max: (throws a pinecone at him) "Could I do that if I wouldn't see you?

  James Patterson

  Church, Max, Sitting

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• The world stands out on either side No wider than the heart is wide; Above the world is stretched the sky, No higher than the soul is high. The heart can push the sea and land Farther away on either hand; The soul can split the sky in two, And let the face of God shine through. But East and West will pinch the heart That can not keep them pushed apart; And he whose soul is flat—the sky Will cave in on him by and by.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Heart, Hands, Sea

  "Renascence" l. 207 (1917)

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• I was blessed with a long career where I won gold medals for myself and my country. Nothing stands out as a disappointment.

  Gail Devers

  Country, Disappointment, Blessed

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• When you want to touch the reader's heart, try to be colder. It gives their grief as it were, a background, against which it stands out in greater relief.

  Anton Chekhov

  Grief, Heart, Giving

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1964). “Letters on the short story, the drama, and other literary topics”

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• You start to realize that the things that are different about you are the things that make you special. And, as cliche as at that sounds, you realize that if you are lucky enough to have something that is different about you...don't try to hide it. I don't try to blend in anymore, it's all about standing out.

  Taylor Swift

  Special, Trying, Sound

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• I think it's funny how people get confused when they think about church music, because a lot of times there is a soloist who stands out, but my church wasn't like that at all.

  Valerie June

  Confused, Thinking, Church Music

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I already optioned a book called The Personal History of Rachel DuPree. I also like The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill. And I love all of Octavia Butler's books. She's created some very complicated black heroines with a variety of belief systems. There are many great books out there, but those are a few of the ones that stand out.

  Viola Davis

  Book, Black, Personal History

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Engaging with creativity in a serious way is a shamanistic activity, and by extension when you choose to follow a mystical path you cannot have a "normal" life within the community. Your job is to stand outside the community and hold up the mirror.

  Kevin Keck

  Jobs, Creativity, Mirrors

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Because of my Asian-ness, I couldn't be anonymous - what I said, what I ate, what I did at the weekend were startlingly different to what everyone else did. I was also a performer, quick and chameleon-like, good at accents, so that made me stand out.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Weekend, Asian, Different

  "Sanjeev Bhaskar: Goodness, I'm home!". Interview with Tina Jackson, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2010.

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• No, my first figure was a SLAYER eagle. And the dragons and the tribals are all I have got. I wish that I only would have done the SLAYER eagle and not the dragons ´coz I like tribals that stand out from a distance. Like you could be a snowblind in the concert and you are still gonna see it. That´s why I like about it.

  Kerry King

  Distance, Dragons, Eagles

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