Pining Quotes - Page 2

• I've been making 16mm urban landscape films about San Francisco for many years. I choose different nonfiction themes to investigate and am generally interested in surfacing lesser-known histories. I like to investigate and illuminate these histories, combining them with my own unconventional storytelling style, which is generally a stream-of-consciousness voiceover involving a steady stream of personal reflections on pining over unavailable women.

  Jenni Olson

  Reflection, Years, San Francisco

  "Sundance Women Directors: Meet Jenni Olson – ‘The Royal Road’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. January 25, 2015.

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• Closing the gate is meant to be a season-long arc, but the questions that come up in the quest, and the series of reveals and discoveries, are meant to start being the under-pinings for questions, secrets and things that will be explored in future seasons.

  Jeremy Carver

  Discovery, Long, Secret

  Source: collider.com

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• I am not a huge fan of the one-sided pining romances where the guy is a perfect love-object because we don't see inside his head.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Perfect, Guy, Romance

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• I usually bring a point and shoot with me so I can go out on the weekends and shoot a bit. I used to bring more cameras, but I'm also an Ebay nut so sometimes I'll order something if I'm really pining for it when I'm on location.

  Anton Yelchin

  Weekend, Order, Nuts

  Source: www.pasunautre.com

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• Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn,
  Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute,
  Are half so sweet as tender human words.

  Bryan Procter

  Music, Sweet, Guitar

  Bryan Waller Procter (1857). “Dramatic Scenes ; with Other Poems Now First Printed”, p.218

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• I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude, where we meet our friends continually, and can imagine the outside world also to be peopled. Yet some of my acquaintance would fain hustle me into the almshouse for the sake of society, as if I were pining for that diet, when I seem to myself a most befriended man, and find constant employment. However, they do not believe a word I say.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Men, Solitude

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.376, Penguin

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• I don't want to sound like some old person pining for how things used to be, because I'm not. But walking down the street, for example, used to be a public activity; you'd see the other people.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  People, Sound, Example

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In an age where the lowered eyelid is just a sign of fatigue, the delicate game of love is pining away. Freud and flirtation are poor companions.

  Marya Mannes

  Love Is, Games, Dating

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• Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon.

  Susan Howatch

  Life, Moon, Men

  FaceBook post by Susan Howatch from Jul 25, 2016

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• Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart.

  Tahir Shah

  Real, Loneliness, Home

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• Time plays like an accordion in the way it can stretch out and compress itself in a thousand melodic ways. Months on end may pass blindingly in a quick series of chords, open-shut, together-apart; and then a single melancholy week may seem like a year's pining, one long unfolding note.

  Julia Glass

  Years, Play, Long

  Julia Glass (2003). “Three Junes”, Vintage

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• Clamorous pauperism feastest
  While honest Labor, pining, hideth his sharp ribs.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Ribs, Honest, Labor

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• People say the media is feeding the public's hunger for celebrity news, but that's the drug pusher's mentality. I don't think anybody would be pining for news about Angelina Jolie's babies if it weren't being given to them in the first place.

  Patti Smith

  Baby, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.spin.com

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• It's always gratifying to share a hobby with a friend, and pining for erstwhile suitors falls into that category. In the months to come, Libby and I would analyze our respective exes with the gusto and intellectual rigor of Jesuits.

  Patricia Marx

  Fall, Intellectual, Hobbies

  Patricia Marx (2008). “Him Her Him Again The End of Him”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Barrons laughed again. "And there, my dear Fio, you make one of Womankind's greatest mistakes: Falling in love with a man's potential. We so rarely share the same view of it, and even more rarely care to achieve it. Stop pining for the man you think I could be -- and take a good, long, hard look at the one I am.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Falling In Love, Mistake, Men

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Mar 10, 2014

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• Among the various forms of science which are reaching and affecting the new popular tradition, we have reckoned Anthropology. Pleasantly enough, Anthropology has herself but recently emerged from that limbo of the unrecognised in which Psychical Research is pining.

  Andrew Lang

  Research, Tradition, Enough

  Andrew Lang (2012). “The Making Of Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.50, Jazzybee Verlag

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