These Days Quotes - Page 11

• I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch.

  Venus Williams

  Fashion, Tennis, Balls

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• These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than "able-bodied" folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Technology, Able, Today

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• I am severely distracted these days. It's hard to sit in front of the computer, uploading bad music for hours, when you have a wonderful boyfriend who treats you like a Goddess.

  April Winchell

  Funny, Cute, Music

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• Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.

  Tom Wolfe

  Painting, Theory, I Can

  Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Painted Word”, p.104, Macmillan

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• Hollywood is in somewhat the same position as Las Vegas these days. It went from being the capital of sin to Disneyland, and now it's landed somewhere in between. It tries to keep the sins hidden away and outwardly present itself as a defender of American virtues: justice, individual freedom, and the power of one innocent soul to save the world.

  Hanna Rosin

  Vegas, Justice, Soul

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• One of these days I'm-a make me a book out of you.

  Billy Collins

  Book

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• Literary studies were no more than a series of autopsies performed by heartless technicians. Worse than autopsies: biopsies. Vivisection. Even movies, which I love more than anything, more than life itself, they even do it with movies these days.

  Stephen Fry

  Heartless, Vivisection, Study

  Stephen Fry (2014). “Making History”, p.9, Soho Press

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• And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Hate, Determined

  'Richard III' (1591) act 1, sc. 1, l. 28

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• if i was a woman these days, i'd be killing motherfuckers. my handgun would never cool and my hands would be covered in testicular blood. i would have a horrible reputation with a lot of men because i would be calling them on their weak bullshit left and right.

  Henry Rollins

  Men, Blood, Hands

  "Solipsist". Book by Henry Rollins, 1998.

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• These days, Clarissa believes, you measure people first by their kindness and their capacity for devotion. You get tired, sometimes, of wit and intellect; everybody's little display of genius.

  Michael Cunningham

  Kindness, Believe, Tired

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.18, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• I keep thinking Naruto... That one of these days your going to finally grow up!

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Growing Up, Thinking, Grows

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• It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from their taste in music. Safest to treat everyone you meet as a distinguished intellectual.

  Ian Mcewan

  Educational, People, Intellectual

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• To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her, or if not I, the imprint of myself - my fossil-love

  Jeanette Winterson

  Rooms, Fossils, Ends

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• "Connected" is the triumphal cry these days. Connection has made people arrogant, impatient, hasty, and presumptuous... I don't doubt that instant communication has been good for business, even for the publishing business, but it has done nothing for literature, and might even have harmed it. In many ways connection has been disastrous. We have confused information (of which there is too much) with ideas (of which there are too few). I found out much more about the world and myself by being unconnected.

  Paul Theroux

  Confused, Communication, Ideas

  "Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings". Book by Paul Theroux, 2000.

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• Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for punching. What you might try is stabbing. Take an old pillow and lay it on the front lawn. Stab it with a big pointy knife. Again and again and again. Stab hard enough for the point of the knife to go into the ground. Stab until the pillow is gone and you are just stabbing the earth again and again, as if you want to kill it for continuing to spin, as if you are getting revenge for having to live on this planet day after day, alone.

  Miranda July

  Revenge, Knives, People

  "The shared patio" by Miranda July, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2007.

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• People are more open about seeking help these days. They recognise the fact that the alternative to having a shrink is that you bore your friends stupid. So I figured that I might as well give someone 100 bucks an hour to hear my woes. At least someone can make a living out of listening to my tedious problems.

  Hugh Laurie

  Stupid, People, Giving

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• People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Talking, People, Human Nature

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• That world! These days it's all been erased and they've rolled it up like a scroll and put it away somewhere. Yes, I can touch it with my fingers. But where is it?

  Denis Johnson

  Yes I Can, World, Fingers

  Denis Johnson (2009). “Jesus' Son: Stories”, p.52, Macmillan

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• I love these dudes, but I don't know what they're doing with all that facial hair these days. There's a lot of peach fuzz going on. They called me up to go to a Kanye West concert, and I was like 'hold on I'll call Kanye.' So I called him and they got into the show, and I called Kanye later and said, 'Yo did you see my dudes from Panic! at the show?' and he was like 'Nah they mst not have been dressed like they were from the 1700's'. But I back them. They have their own unique style, which is cool.

  Pete Wentz

  Unique, Hair, Style

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• Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most prudent men.' Simon gave him a strange, one might even have thought a hostile, look. I should tear it out of my heart as I'd wrench out of my mouth a rotten tooth.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Falling In Love, Heart, Men

  W. Somerset Maugham (1939). “Christmas Holiday”

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• These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Laughing, Lullaby

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2002.

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• Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.

  Robert Musil

  Brain, Want, Fairytale

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• We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Crazy, Order, Years

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• For if the modern mind is whimsical and discursive, the classical mind is narrow, unhesitating, relentless. It is not a quality of intelligence that one encounters frequently these days. But though I can digress with the best of them, I am nothing in my soul if not obsessive.

  Donna Tartt

  Soul, Mind, Quality

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.28, Vintage

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• So, have you been enjoying yourself these days, Kazami?' I'm having lots of fun.' It was true. That made the sense of regret even keener, that this time in my life would soon be a thing of the past. I felt as if I could understand a little of what my mother had been through, and the feelings she may have had at different times. I wasn't a child anymore, and this made me feel awfully lonesome, and utterly alone.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Mother, Fun, Regret

  Banana Yoshimoto (1995). “N.P.: A Novel”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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