Now And Then Quotes - Page 13

• I'll smoke pot every now and then. I cannot see a movie on pot. The number of movies I've seen thinking, This is probably the best I have ever seen, and then I'll see it again sober and think, What was I thinking?

  Jane Fonda

  Thinking, Numbers, Pot

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love that experience of seeing a bad movie or a movie that you don't even know, and then experiencing it with your friend.

  Paul Scheer

  Bad Movies, Knows, Seeing

  "Paul Scheer picks his favorite How Did This Get Made? episodes". Interview with Nathan Rabin, aux.avclub.com. February 7, 2013.

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• What if you lived your entire life completely without urgency? You went to classes, you ate your meals, on Saturday nights a boy you didn't love took you to the movies; now and then you actually had a conversation with someone. The rest of the time -the hours that weren't accounted for-you spent waiting for something to happen to you; when you were particularly desperate, you went out looking for it.

  Joyce Johnson

  Boys, Night, Class

  Joyce Johnson (2014). “Come and Join the Dance: A Novel”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• The mob will now and then see things in a right light.

  Horace

  Light

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• ... one's own faults are always a heavy chain to drag through life and one can't help groaning under the weight now and then.

  George Eliot

  Faults, Weight, Helping

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• About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman's education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.

  Robert Graves

  Years, Gentleman, Return

  Robert Graves (1980). “Good-Bye to All That: With a Prologue and an Epilogue”, Octagon Press, Limited

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• The more I see of Italy, the more I adore the Italians. They have so much heart, so much cheerfulness and gaiety, so much good humor. And the way they sing! Every now and then, when a silence falls in the streets, it is broken by some sudden singing voice, with a mellowness and a sweetness that makes you thrill.

  Marie Van Vorst

  Fall, Heart, Voice

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• The first principle, when you don't know anything about the subject of a thesis, is to let the candidate talk, nodding now and then with an ambiguous smile. He thinks you know, and are counting his mistakes, and it unnerves him... the second principle of conducting an oral, ... is to pretend ignorance, and ask for explanations of very simple points. Of course your ignorance is real, but the examinee thinks you are being subtle, and that he is making an ass of himself, and this rattles him.

  Robertson Davies

  Mistake, Real, Ignorance

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• I never bothered about keeping track.Every now and then someone records one of my songs, and I get credit for it.

  Mose Allison

  Song, Track, Credit

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 2, 2010.

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• There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature. They are like gigantic trees that we sometimes see on the banks of a stream; which, by their vast and deep roots, penetrating through the mere surface, and laying hold on the very foundations of the earth, preserve the soil around them from being swept away by the ever-flowing current, and hold up many a neighboring plant, and perhaps worthless weed, to perpetuity.

  Washington Irving

  Weed, Roots, Tree

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)”, p.133, e-artnow

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• They say that life is a highway and its milestones are the years,And now and then there's a toll-gate where you buy your way with tears.It's a rough road and a steep road and it stretches broad and far,But at last it leads to a golden Town where golden Houses are.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Years, House, Tears

  Joyce Kilmer (1968). “Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and poems”

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• Every now and then, you get people who tend to forget what this country is about, which is a melting pot of races and cultures and freedom of speech.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Country, Race, People

  "The Tool Man: Blistering Band's Frontman Puts His Mind to the World's Problems". The San Diego Union-Tribune, October 25, 2001.

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• The distribution of tasks among the various employees follows a simple rule, which is that the duty of the members of each category is to do as much work as they possibly can, so that only a small part of that work need be passed to the category above. This means that the clerks are obliged to work without cease from morning to night, whereas the senior clerks do so only now and then, the deputies very rarely, and the Registrar almost never.

  Jose Saramago

  Senior, Morning, Mean

  "All the Names" by Jose Saramago, tr. Margaret Jull Costam London: The Harvill Press, (p. 2), 1999.

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• The greatest men May ask a foolish question, now and then.

  John Wolcot

  Men, May, Foolish

  John Wolcot (1812). “The works of Peter Pindar”, p.460

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• Violence stinks no matter which side of it you're on. But now and then there's nothing left to do but hit the other person over the head with a frying pan.

  Tom Robbins

  Frying Pans, Matter, Violence

  "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues". Book by Tom Robbins, 1976.

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• When a fellow's got what he set out for in this world, he should go off into the woods for a few weeks now and then to make sure that he's still a man, and not a plug-hat and a frock-coat and a wad of bills.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Men, World, Coats

  George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.251, Cosimo, Inc.

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• America was based on a big promise--a great big one: the Declaration of Independence. When you have to live with that in the house, that's quite a problem--particularly when you've got to make money and get ahead, open world markets, do all the things you have to, raise your children, and so forth. America is stuck with its self-definition put on paper in 1776, and that was just like putting a burr under the metaphysical saddle of America--you see, that saddle's going to jump now and then and it pricks.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Children, America, Self

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• A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably.

  Jim Butcher

  Ego, Littles, Deflation

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1330, Penguin

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• Every now and then life sold you an illusion of design. A coincidence, a parallel, a sledgehammer symbol. The goods were always faulty. You forked over the cash only to discover they'd fallen apart by the time you got home. But life kept at it. Life couldn't help it. Life was a compulsive salesman.

  Glen Duncan

  Life, Home, Design

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• I sit at my table en grand seigneur , And when I have done, throw a crust to the poor; Not only the pleasure, one's self, of good living, But also the pleasure of now and then giving. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money.

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Self, Giving, Done

  Arthur Hugh Clough, Francis Turner Palgrave (1862). “Poems”, p.46

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• Look at your [English] ladies of quality are they not forever parting with their husbands - forfeiting their reputations - and is their life aught but dissipation? In common genteel life, indeed, you may now and then meet with very fine girls - who have politeness, sense and conversation - but these are few - and then look at your trademen's daughters - what are they? poor creatures indeed! all pertness, imitation and folly.

  Fanny Burney

  Girl, Daughter, Husband

  "The Early Journals and Letters of Fanny Burney". Vol. 1, p. 47, journal entry, November 17, 1768.

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• Fortune has dealt with me rather too well. I have known little struggle, not much poverty, many generosities. Now and then I have, for my books or myself, been somewhat warmly denounced -- there was one good pastor in California who upon reading my Elmer Gantry desired to lead a mob and lynch me, while another holy man in the state of Maine wondered if there was no respectable and righteous way of putting me in jail.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Reading, Struggle, Book

  Erik Axel Karlfeldt, Sinclair Lewis (1931). “Why Sinclair Lewis got the Nobel prize”

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• Like a kaleidoscope which is every now and then given a turn, society arranges successively in different orders elements which one would have supposed immutable, and composes a new pattern.

  Marcel Proust

  Order, Different, Elements

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.112, Modern Library

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• Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Interesting, Progress

  'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' (1884) ch. 17

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• It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Profound, Poetry, May

  Edgar Allan Poe (2017). “Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Essays, Literary Studies, Criticism, Cryptography & Autography, Translations, Letters and Other Non-Fiction Works: The Philosophy of Composition, The Rationale of Verse, The Poetic Principle, Old English Poetry, Maelzel's Chess Player, Eureka, The Literati of New York, Fifty Suggestions, Exordium, Marginalia…”, p.52, e-artnow

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