These Days Quotes - Page 14

• One of these days, you're going to fall in love with some guy, and you're not going to know what to do with yourself.

  Jane Roberts

  Falling In Love, Guy, Knows

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• I cannot admit this out loud. In the first place, we are expected to be supermoms these days, instead of admitting that we have flaws. It is tempting to believe that all mothers wake up feeling fresh every morning, never raise their voices, only cook with organic food, and are equally at ease with the CEO and the PTA.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Morning, Believe

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• These days, you’ve gotta milk a dollar out of every dime.

  Gayle Forman

  Dollars, Dimes, Milk

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.8, Penguin

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• Unexpectedly, a fierce sense of protectiveness comes over me. Except I fight it back because I can hardly look after myself these days.

  Melina Marchetta

  Fighting, Looks, Fierce

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• I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z’ed up.

  John Green

  Character, Flaws, Intellectualism

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• I'm scared," she said. "These days I feel like a snail without a shell." "I'm scared too," I said. "I feel like a frog without any webs." She looked up and smiled. Wordlessly we walked over to a shaded part of the building and held each other and kissed, a shell-less snail and a webless frog.

  Haruki Murakami

  Shells, Frogs, Scared

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• Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. One starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded and increasingly hard to please. I read less and less fiction these days, finding the buzz and the joy I used to get from fiction in ever stranger works of non-fiction, or poetry.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Neil Gaiman (2002). “Adventures in the Dream Trade”, N E S F A Press

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• One of these days you're going to wake up," William finally said, "and I will have shaved you, Everywhere." (Paris) "Won't make a difference. Women will still want me.

  Gena Showalter

  Paris, Differences, Making A Difference

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• I liked that young man, did not you? There was something particularly pleasing about his manners, which I thought very easy and frank. He has an air of honest manliness, too, which, in these days of fribbles and counter-coxcombs, I own I find refreshing!

  Georgette Heyer

  Men, Air, Honest

  Georgette Heyer (1955). “Bath Tangle”, London : Heinemann

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• Conflict resolution,' said Nightingale. 'Is this what they teach at Hendon these days?' 'Yes, sir,' I said. 'But don't worry, they also teach us how to beat people with phone books and the ten best ways to plant evidence.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Book, Phones, People

  Ben Aaronovitch (2011). “Rivers of London”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself by being a cabbage. Nowadays it’s no good being a cabbage – unless you have an agent and pay him a commission. Nothing is free anymore to sell itself or give itself away. These days, Countess, every cabbage has its pimp.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Giving, Pimp, Agents

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• What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?

  John le Carre

  Misery, Journalist, Reports

  John le Carre (2002). “The Honourable Schoolboy”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• These days no one challenges us,' he said. 'And because there is no challenge, there is no reason to work hard. And with no reason to work hard, we have all become lazy.

  Tahir Shah

  Hard Work, Challenges, Lazy

  Tahir Shah (2009). “In Arabian Nights”, p.145, Random House

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• I read because one of these days I'm going to get out of this town, and I'm going to go everywhere and meet everybody, and I want to be ready

  Richard Peck

  Want, Towns, Ready

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• I’ve often wished that I had some suave and socially acceptable hobby that I could fall back on in times like this. You know, play the violin (or was it the viola) like Sherlock Holmes, or maybe twiddle away on the pipe organ like the Disney version of Captain Nemo. But I don’t. I’m sort of the arcane equivalent of a classic computer geek. I do magic, in one form or another, and that’s pretty much it. I really need to get a life, one of these days

  Jim Butcher

  Fall, Play, Magic

  Jim Butcher (2000). “Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files”, p.87, Penguin Group

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• Quite a crowd tonight, Gin. Usually, it's just you and Finn." I shrugged. "What can I say? I seem to attract minions wherever I go these days. Kind of like the Pied Piper." Behind me, Finn huffed out his displeasure. "Minion? I am most certainly not a mere minion. Head minion, perhaps. At the very least.

  Jennifer Estep

  Tonight, Crowds, Kind

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• And of course these days I feel like there is a nation of us - displaced southerners and children of the working class. We listen to Steve Earle, Mary J. Blige, and k.d. lang. We devour paperback novels and tell evil mean stories, value stubbornness above patience and a sense of humor more than a college education. We claim our heritage with a full appreciation of how often it has been disdained. And let me promise you, you do not want to make us angry.

  Dorothy Allison

  Appreciation, Children, Mean

  Dorothy Allison (2002). “Trash”, p.14, Penguin

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• Hi, my name is Jareth, and I'll be your- God" He curses as he lays his eyes on me. I raised an eyebrow. "You'll be my god? Hm...Well, we'll have to see about that. I mean, it takes a lot to my world these days.

  Mari Mancusi

  Mean, Eye, Names

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• There are no crimes and no criminals in these days. What is the use of having brains in our profession? I know well that I have it in me to make my name famous. No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done. And what is the result? There is no crime to detect, or, at most, some bungling villainy with a motive so transparent that even a Scotland Yard official can see through it.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Names, Scotland

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes. The best stories”, p.18, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Jobs, Best Job, Accepting

  Twitter post from Oct 10, 2012

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• Miles exhaled carefully, faint with rage and reminded grief. He does not know, he told himself. He cannot know... "Ivan, one of these days somebody is going to pull out a weapon and plug you, and you're going to die in bewilderment, crying, "What did I say? What did I say?" "What did I say?" asked Ivan indignantly.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Grief, Doe, Weapons

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• I think these days when there is so little to believe in——when the old loyalties——God, country, and the hope of Heaven——aren't very real, we are more dependent than we should be on our friends. The only thing left to believe in——someone who seems beautiful.

  William Carlos Williams

  Beautiful, Loyalty, Country

  William Carlos Williams (1954). “Selected Essays”, New York, Random House

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• There's so much I wish for these days, but most of all, I wish you were here. It's strange, but before I met you, I couldn't remember the last time that I cried. Now, it seems that tears come easily to me...but you have a way of making my sorrows seem worthwhile, of explaining things in a way that lessens my ache. You are a treasure, a gift, and when we're together again, I intend to hold you until my arms are weak and I can do it no longer. My thoughts of you are sometimes the only things that keep me going.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Together Again, Sorrow, Wish

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• Some people believe that when you die, you cross the River of Death and have to pay the ferryman. People don’t seem to worry about that these days. Perhaps there’s a bridge now.

  Terry Pratchett

  Believe, Bridges, Rivers

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “A Hat Full of Sky: (Discworld Novel 32)”, p.102, Random House

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• One of these days I'm going to put my body where my mind is.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Mind, Body

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