Recurring Quotes

• That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time

  Brian De Palma

  Girl, Dream, Strong

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• I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago, because a mind was made fo figure things out, not to read the same page recurrently.

  Donald Miller

  Change, Walking Away, Mind

  Donald Miller (2005). “Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative.

  Ron Fournier

  Character, Narrative, American Exceptionalism

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• Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Passion, Giving, Way

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.70, Penguin

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• Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.

  Robert Frost

  Answers, Depends

  "The Road Not Taken and Other Poems".

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• I guess my strongest recurring theme is honoring love, even when it's lost.

  Lana Del Rey

  Lost, Theme, Strongest

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• A recurring dream probably merits close attention. Something wants you to pay attention.

  Amy Hardie

  Dream, Attention, Want

  "Live Chat with Filmmaker and Dream Experts". Live Chat, www.pbs.org.

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• A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.

  Guenter Lewy

  Christian, Religious, Literature

  Guenter Lewy (1996). “Why America Needs Religion: Secular Modernity and Its Discontents”, p.36, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Death, Progress, Would Be

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen forget.

  James A. Baldwin

  Pain, People, Hatred

  "Giovanni's Room". Book by James A. Baldwin, 1956.

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• Neither loss of father, nor loss of mother, dear as she was to Mr Thornton, could have poisoned the remembrance of the weeks, the days, the hours, when a walk of two miles, every step of which was pleasant, as it brought him nearer and nearer to her, took him to her sweet presence - every step of which was rich, as each recurring moment that bore him away from her made him recal some fresh grace in her demeanour, or pleasant pungency in her character.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Mother, Sweet, Father

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (Illustrated)”, p.1236, Delphi Classics

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• The odd thing about recurring dreams is that, no matter how many times you dream the same thing, it always takes you by surprise.

  David Small

  Dream, Odd Things, Matter

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• I have this recurring nightmare where I'm lost in a strange forest, and my only hope is your sense of direction. Enough to give a fellow the sweats, it is.

  Gerald Morris

  Sweat, Giving, Forests

  Gerald Morris (2008). “The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I would not trade any of these features for anybody else’s. I wouldn’t trade the small thin-lipped mouth that makes me resemble my nephew. I wouldn’t even trade the acne scar on my right cheek, because that recurring zit spent more time with me in college than any boy ever did.

  Tina Fey

  Boys, College, Nephew

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• All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

  Frank Herbert

  War, Government, Personality

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.60, Penguin

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• A backlash against women's rights is nothing new. Indeed it's a recurring phenomenon: it returns every time women begin to make some headway towards equality, a seemingly inevitable early frost to the brief flowerings of feminism.

  Susan Faludi

  Rights, Justice, Feminism

  1992 Backlash (UK edn), ch.3,'Backlashes Then and Now'.

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• Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

  Martin Buber

  Unique, Men, Tasks

  Martin Buber (2015). “Hasidism and Modern Man”, p.66, Princeton University Press

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• We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

  Doris Lessing

  Dream, Parent, Use

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• The one recurring theme in my writing, and in my life in general, is confusion. The fact that anytime you think you really know something, you're going to find out you're wrong - that is the rule. The moments where you think you have something figured out, those are the exceptions.

  Conor Oberst

  Writing, Thinking, Confusion

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• I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

  Taylor Swift

  Dream, People, Waiting

  "Taylor Swift: Bomb-Shell in Blue Jeans". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. June 30, 2009.

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• I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Men, Musical, Pay

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• The question, O me! so sad, recurring - What good amid these, O me, O life? That you are here - that life exists and identity, that the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.

  Walt Whitman

  Powerful, Dead Poets Society, Play

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Leaves of Grass”, p.261, Xist Publishing

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• The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Song, Men, Ugly

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (2007). “Dream: The Words and Inspiration of Martin Luther King, Jr”, p.91, Blue Mountain Arts, Inc.

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• I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent in upstate New York, in the country north of Buffalo and West of Rochester. So this part of New York state is very familiar to me and, with its economic difficulties, has become emblematic of much of American life.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Country, Dream, New York

  Off the Page with Carole Burns, www.washingtonpost.com. May 9, 2006.

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• I was always prepared for my Fringe journey to end immediately. I had only signed up for a guest role but they kept bringing me back in the third season as a recurring character. So pretty much every time I went to film a 'Fringe' episode I kind of said goodbye to the show, but then they kept bringing me back.

  Seth Gabel

  Goodbye, Character, Journey

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

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