Now And Then Quotes - Page 17

• But better far it is to speak
  One simple word, which now and then
  Shall waken their free nature in the weak
  And friendless sons of men.

  James Russell Lowell

  Sympathy, Son, Simple

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.40

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• It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.

  George Eliot

  Hands, Letters, Kind

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.236, 谷月社

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• Fiction is very greedy. It will take all you know and then some. The first novel I tried to write, I was struck by this - the appetite of the blank page for ever more information, ever more data. An empty book is a greedy thing. You are right: You wind up using everything you know, and often more than once.

  John Updike

  Book, Writing, Wind

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• For three years between 16 and 19 I was the opening-act-for-the-opening-act-for-the-opening-act, you know? And then I was on tour with Ice-T, Stetsasonic, EPMD, Sir Mix-a-Lot--legends--and went on to sell 160 million records. It still baffles me.

  Vanilla Ice

  Years, Ice, Three

  "The GQ+A: Vanilla Ice". Interview with Nate Erickson, www.gq.com. April 5, 2013.

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• It is extraordinary how safe flying has become. You are now statistically more likely to be elected president of the United States in your lifetime than you are to die in a plane crash. What an amazing achievement as a society! But what we end up focusing on are the catastrophic failures that are incredibly rare but happen every now and then.

  Steven Johnson

  Achievement, Flying, President

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• Standing in the middle of nowhere, wondering how to begin. Lost between tomorrow and yesterday, between now and then.

  Ray Davies

  Philosophy, Yesterday, Middle Of Nowhere

  Song: Do It Again

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• Few minds are sunlike, sources of light in themselves and to others: many more are moons that shine with a borrowed radiance. One may easily distinguish the two: the former are always full; the latter only now and then, when their suns are shining full upon them.

  Augustus William Hare

  Moon, Light, Two

  Augustus William Hare (1827). “Guesses at Truth”, p.301

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• Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.

  Oscar Wilde

  Wise, Wine, Rose

  Oscar Wilde (2011). “De Profundis”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• Between now and then, 'til I see you again, I'll be loving you.

  Collin Raye

  Romantic, Loving You, You Again

  Song: Love, Me

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• People try to challenge me in bars every now and then. As long as they're not physical I just walk away, but if they get physical then I just end up in a fight.

  Johnny Knoxville

  Fighting, Long, People

  "On-Location Interview: Johnny Knoxville". Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. March 30, 2005.

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• My career has been very strange. My career is like a heart monitor. I get involved in a good project now and then to keep things going. And then I make things that I work on that I hope are going to be good so I can make a living and keep a roof over the heads of those little monsters I have in my house.

  Michael Madsen

  Heart, Careers, House

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

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• Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.

  James Laughlin

  Gertrude, Bells, Clicks

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• Now and then I find a kitschy series I love.

  Adam Pascal

  Series

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• I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from the past. How has society changed, how has policing changed, have we changed philosophically, psychologically, culturally, spiritually?

  Ian Rankin

  Thinking, Past, Scotland

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• I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Stars, Tvs, Supermarkets

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• Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.

  Karlheinz Stockhausen

  Play, Singers, Musician

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• That's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.

  Alan Vega

  Nice, Today, Buttons

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• I'd like to be like a hummingbird. You see them every now and then. You don't see them everywhere.

  Shailene Woodley

  Hummingbirds

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• Are there grounds now and then for an unironic smile?

  Robert Adams

  "Robert Adams Retrospective ‘The Place We Live’ Comes To Yale University Art Gallery". www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2012.

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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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• All our lives are activity without meaning; we burrow ratlike into life and we squirm ratlike through it and ratlike we are flung into our graves at the end. Now and then, why shouldn't we hear a voice of prophecy.

  Gregory Maguire

  Voice, Ends, Graves

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• There's a narrow bit which is still possible, which is left from all of the ones you can't do right now, and then you make the best out of that. You wouldn't have done that by yourself at any other moment of time.

  Nils Frahm

  Done, Moments, Stills

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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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• Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now and then detect em, they ever dream that we suspect em.

  Bryan Procter

  Dream, Winning, Ems

  Bryan Waller Procter (1820). “A Sicilian Story ; with Diego de Montilla and Other Poems”, p.135

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• Every now and then I have to teach directing. The thing about the theatre is that the most important thing you can do as a director is to make sure that everybody is in the same world - you have to create the world and make sure everyone buys into it.

  Stephen Daldry

  Important, Theatre, Directors

  "Nothing is the hardest thing to do". Interview with Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2003.

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