Series Quotes - Page 4

• Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

  Virginia Woolf

  Life, Halos, Lamps

  1919 'Modern Fiction'.

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• We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Happiness, Joy

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.638, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Nature, Children, Roots

  1850 The Scarlet Letter,'The Custom-House'.

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• The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Dream, Reality, Mind

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1823). “Frankenstein: ; Or, The Modern Prometheus”, DOSER Reads

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• Sometimes love is a surprise, an instant of recognition, a sudden gift at a sudden moment that makes everything different from then on. Some people will say that's not love, that you can't really love someone you don't know. But, I'm not so sure. Love doesn't seem to follow a plan; it's not a series of steps. It can hit with the force of nature--an earthquake, a tidal wave, a storm of wild relentless energy that is beyond your simple attempts at control.

  Deb Caletti

  Simple, Love Is, Sure Love

  Deb Caletti (2007). “The Nature of Jade”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• A few weeks later, I’m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. I’m sitting next to a guy who’s doing a series of elaborate neck stretches, like we’re about to engage in a vigorous rugby match. He’s neatly laid out four types of gum on his Formica desk: Juicy Fruit, Wrigley Spearmint, Big Red, and Eclipse. I hate this guy. I hope to God he’s not a genius.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Hate, Guy, Genius

  A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here without committing murder or being murdered; without having ended up in the madhouse. as I drink alone again tonight my soul despite all the past agony thanks all the gods who were not there for me then.

  Charles Bukowski

  Past, Agony, Drunk

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• Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities. As we rise in the scale of development we perceive that during the stages through which we have passed we mistook shadows for realities, and the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at last, we have reached "reality"; but only when we shall have reached the absolute Consciousness, and blended our own with it, shall we be free from the delusions produced by Maya [illusion].

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Reality, Ideas, Ego

  H P Blavatsky (2015). “An Abridgement of the Secret Doctrine”, p.39, Quest Books

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• But the first lie in the series is the one you make with the greatest trepidation and the heaviest heart.

  Michael Chabon

  Lying, Heart, Firsts

  Michael Chabon (2011). “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh”, p.213, Open Road Media

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• Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Lying, Writing, Fiction

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• Twice in her life she had mistaken something else for it; it was like seeing somebody in the street who you think is a friend, you whistle and wave and run after him, and it is not only not the friend, but not even very like him. A few minutes later the real friend appears in view, and then you can't imagine how you ever mistook that other person for him. Linda was now looking upon the authentic face of love, and she knew it, but it frightened her. That it should come so casually, so much by a series of accidents, was frightening.

  Nancy Mitford

  Running, Real, Thinking

  Nancy Mitford (1963). “The Nancy Mitford Omnibus”

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• It seems to me that you won't have had a proper series of adventures, unless you've gone through thick and thin.

  Avi

  Adventure, Gone, Thick And Thin

  Avi (2008). “The End of the Beginning: Being the Adventures of a Small Snail (and an Even Smaller Ant)”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Life hinges on many factors we cannot control. Two of the most important factors, we can control. We can manage our relationships-and what is life but a series of relationships?-and we can correct our mistakes, here on earth within our life span.

  Leon Uris

  Mistake, Two, Important

  Leon Uris (1995). “Redemption”, G K Hall & Company

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• Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is no denying that the plague had gradually killed off in all of us the faculty not of love only but even of friendship. Naturally enough, since love asks something of the future, and nothing was left us but a series of present moments.

  Albert Camus

  Memories, Mean, Moments

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

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• My coming to faith did not start with a leap but rather a series of staggers from what seemed like one safe place to another. Like lily pads, round and green, these places summoned and then held me up while I grew. Each prepared me for the next leaf on which I would land, and in this way I moved across the swamp of doubt and fear.

  Anne Lamott

  Land, Doubt, Lily Pads

  Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.7, Anchor

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• Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.

  Ann Landers

  Sacrifice, Class, Manners

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• I love my work. I've had three successful series, and I want to find out if I can make a fourth.

  Michael Landon

  Successful, Three, Want

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• I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.

  Denis Leary

  Writing, Actors, Television

  "Denis Leary on 'The Amazing Spider-Man,' comedy, and life after 'Rescue Me'". Interview with Rick Marshall, www.ifc.com. July 31, 2012.

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• The best thing about series TV is that everyone you work with is hand-picked, as compared to working on a film.

  Denis Leary

  Hands, Tvs, Film

  "The End of Rescue Me, But Not Denis Leary". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2011.

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• In my experience in series TV if you have a good crew and a great cast it's going to be a great group - similar to the theater where it's a bunch of people who are really talented and go to work each day and challenge each other and if you are lucky enough to get a hit then it's five or six or seven years of this kind of work.

  Denis Leary

  Years, People, Challenges

  "The End of Rescue Me, But Not Denis Leary". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2011.

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• After watching my first World Series in 1977, I wanted to be Reggie Jackson. I bought a big Reggie poster. I ate Reggie candy bars. I entered a phase during which I insisted on having the same style of glasses Reggie had: gold wire frames with the double bar across.

  Eric Liu

  Glasses, Style, Wire

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• As far as 'Twilight' goes, I'm in love with my character. I'm in love with the whole series. I love doing the fan conventions around the world, I love to travel. So wherever it fits in, I'd love to continue doing that for the rest of my life. Just meeting the fans who made everything possible from around the world.

  Kellan Lutz

  Twilight, Character, Fans

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• You know, as I do, actors who, having become worldwide celebrities thanks to a TV series, complain of their lot and declare themselves ready to drop it all.

  James MacArthur

  Complaining, Actors, Tvs

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• Like it or not, life is a series of competitions. You may be competing for a grade, a spot on a team, a job, or the largest account in town. The higher your self-esteem is, the better you get along with yourself, with others, and the more you'll accomplish.

  Harvey Mackay

  Jobs, Self Esteem, Team

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• Perhaps the most effective way to describe the approach a brand must take is to think of themselves as social cartographers. By that I mean that brands must simultaneously inspire, engage and maintain a series of conversations taking place within certain cultural landscape specific to their business goal.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Mean, Thinking, Goal

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