Now And Then Quotes - Page 4

• Don't go taking that gospel stuff seriously. It's nice to clean you out now and then, but it ain't for real. It's like bad whiskey. Run through you fast and leave you with pain.

  Dorothy Allison

  Running, Pain, Nice

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• But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.

  Sarah Dessen

  Life, Adversity, Perfect

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.69, Penguin

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• In A Glass of Cider It seemed I was a mite of sediment That waited for the bottom to ferment So I could catch a bubble in ascent. I rode up on one till the bubble burst, And when that left me to sink back reversed I was no worse off than I was at first. I'd catch another bubble if I waited. The thing was to get now and then elated.

  Robert Frost

  Glasses, Cider, Ascent

  Robert Frost (1995). “Collected Poems, Prose & Plays”, Severn House Paperbacks

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• Girls have to go somewhere dangerous every now and then just so they know they can find their way home.

  Nicole Blackman

  Girl, Home, Way

  Nicole Blackman (2002). “Blood Sugar”, Akashic Books

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• You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, as occasion serves.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Life, Proud, Pleasant

  "The Plays".

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• Now and then sprays of rain flew over and misted our faces. Every time I refused to wipe away the wetness. It made the world seem so alive to me. I couldn't help but envy the way a good storm got everyone's attention.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Rain, Envy, Storm

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.75, Penguin

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• ...and you don't even have to sleep alone, you don't even have to sleep at all; and so, all you have to do is show the stick to the dog now and then and say, 'Thank God for nothing.'

  William Faulkner

  Dog, Sleep, Thank God

  "Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner".

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• Every now and then, I'll run into someone who claims not to like chocolate, and while we live in a country where everyone has the right to eat what they want, I want to say for the record that I don't trust these people, that I think something is wrong with them, and that they're probably - and this must be said - total duds in bed.

  Steve Almond

  Running, Country, Thinking

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• You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.

  Gore Vidal

  Writing, Cities, Perfect

  Gore Vidal, Richard Peabody, Lucinda Ebersole (2005). “Conversations with Gore Vidal”, p.137, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Rather, very, little, pretty - these are the leeches that infest the pond of prose, sucking the blood of words. The constant use of the adjective little (except to indicate size) is particularly debilitating; we should all try to do a little better, we should all be very watchful of this rule, for it is a rather important one, and we are pretty sure to violate it now and then.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Blood, Important, Trying

  "The Elements of Style". Book by William Strunk Jr. Chapter V: "An Approach to Style", 1918.

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• Why are there beings at all instead of nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is not arbitrary question, "Why are there beings at all instead of nothing"- this is obviously the first of all questions. Of course it is not the first question in the chronological sense [...] And yet, we are each touched once, maybe even every now and then, by the concealed power of this question, without properly grasping what is happening to us. In great despair, for example, when all weight tends to dwindle away from things and the sense of things grows dark, the question looms.

  Martin Heidegger

  Dark, Despair, Example

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• There were now and then, though rarely, the hours that brought the welcome shock, pulled down the walls and brought me back again from my wanderings to the living heart of the world. Sadly and yet deeply moved, I set myself to recall the last of these experiences. It was at a concert of lovely old music. After two of three notes of the piano the door was opened of a sudden to the other world. I sped through heaven and saw God at work. I suffered holy pains. I dropped all my defenses and was afraid of nothing in the world. I accepted all things and to all things I gave up my heart.

  Hermann Hesse

  Wall, Pain, Heart

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• Children, like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way...Or now and then we'll hear from an artisit who's never lost it.

  Eudora Welty

  Children, Artist, Animal

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• Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? the blueberries? the whistling reed? She could find nothing, for he had left nothing but his stunning absence.

  Toni Morrison

  Butterfly, Tangible, Reeds

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• As for his name, well, what attorney wouldn't want to be able put a Judge in a crate every now and then?

  Jodi Picoult

  Names, Judging, Want

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• Some people, every now and then, simply had to have One Too Many, go drifty voiced and slouch mouthed, swimming willfully around in their own sadness as if it were hot springs.

  Marisha Pessl

  Spring, Sadness, Swimming

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.203, Penguin

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• Although, I admit, I desire, Occasionally, some backtalk From the mute sky, I can't honestly complain: A certain minor light may still Lean incandescent Out of kitchen table or chair As if a celestial burning took Possession of the most obtuse objects now and then --

  Sylvia Plath

  Light, Sky, Kitchen

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• I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beautiful, Art, Book

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• the seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, instead of what they said. It made him wise.

  Orson Scott Card

  Wise, Roots, People

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.81, Macmillan

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• We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it's so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.

  Roberto Bolano

  Alive, Ends, Dies

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• We all remain who we are. But on the way to healing or liberation we have to do what the Romans called agere contra: we have to act against the grain of our natural compulsions. This requires clear decisions. Because it does not happen by itself, it is in a way "unnatural" or "supernatural" . . . (we) simply have to cut loose now and then, and in the process . . . make mistakes.

  Richard Rohr

  Mistake, Healing, Cutting

  Richard Rohr, Andreas Ebert (2001). “The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• We spend our lives guessing at what's going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we 'understand.' Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a word now and then.

  Orson Scott Card

  Thinking, Lucky, Guessing

  "Xenocide". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1991.

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• Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

  Pablo Picasso

  Doors, Stones, Paint

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• I couldn't have spoken like this yesterday, because when we've been apart, and I'm looking forward to seeing you, every thought is burnt up in a great flame. But then you come; and you're so much more than I remembered, and what I want of you is so much more than an hour or two every now and then, with wastes of thirsty waiting between, that I can sit perfectly still beside you, like this, with that other vision in my mind, just quietly trusting it to come true.

  Edith Wharton

  Flames, Two, Yesterday

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2147, Delphi Classics

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• Now and then I see something in her eyes, and I wonder if I’ve ever grasped how much pain she’s really in.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Pain, Eye, Wonder

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