Sneak Quotes

• I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.

  Johnny Carson

  Funny, Witty, Kids

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• Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with its touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes its noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

  Hugh Elliot

  Death, Doors, Way

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• Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

  John Barrymore

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• I've always been loud and obnoxious and sneaking my way into things, and so I feel like I've snuck my way onto the Lollapalooza lineup, and I'm going to sneak my way into whatever else I get to do.

  Kesha

  Way, Loud, Obnoxious

  "KE$HA and the Not-Quite-72 Virgins in Her Own Personal Heaven". Interview With Matt Sullivan, www.esquire.com. August 13, 2009.

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• Her magic formula for dealing with children is ignoring all faults and accenting tiny virtues. She says, "Instead of telling Tommy day in and day out that he is the naughtiest boy in the United States of America, which could very well be true, take an aspirin and comment on his neatly tied shoes. Almost anybody would rather be known for expert shoe-tying than for kicking the cat." She always tells whiners how charming they are--bullies how brave--bad sports how good--sneaks how honest!

  Betty MacDonald

  Sports, Children, Cat

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• The happiest people I know are people who don't even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they are busy doing good.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Inspirational, Happiness, Thinking

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• No matter how good you are at sneaking, you can't ever sneak well enough so that mosquitoes won't find you, and no matter how worried and tense you are, or how hard you are trying to pay attention, you just can't help noticing when a cloud of mosquitoes comes for you like you're their first good meal since last fall.

  Patricia C. Wrede

  Fall, Clouds, Trying

  Patricia C. Wrede (2011). “Across the Great Barrier”, p.99, Scholastic Inc.

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• Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.

  Doug Larson

  Time, Opportunity, Stealing

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• Life sneaks up on us every once in a while and gives us something we didn't ever know we wanted, and lights within us a love we didn't even know existed.

  Shauna Niequist

  Light, Giving, Wanted

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• When I get into trouble at school I'd like to take an invisibility cloak, drape it over me and sneak out the door. Or I'd like to have a 3 headed-dog because then no one would argue with me.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Dog, School, Invisibility Cloak

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

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• Sometimes the things you really want sneak in the back door. Notice.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Sunshine, Doors, Sneak In

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• [When] you're a writer, you know that a lot of times you have to sneak up on yourself in order to achieve what you want to achieve, and sometimes you don't even know what it is until you've done it.

  Emily Haines

  Order, Done, Want

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• When a lion stalks a herd, he sneaks in close, lies down, and surveys them to choose his victim. He takes his time. The deer or buffalo have no idea he’s near. He finds his prey and then he explodes from his hiding place and grabs it. Even if another, perfectly serviceable animal ends up within his reach, he isn’t going to alter his course. He has chosen, and he would rather go hungry than change his mind.

  Ilona Andrews

  Lying, Animal, Ideas

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Magic Strikes: A Kate Daniels Novel: 3”, p.33, Hachette UK

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• The sneak-peeks you get off the top are of them in their real life. You're more invested, you know both of them, and you've already made assumptions. A murder who would murders someone - that makes them immediately bad - but here you see them in a different.

  Kristin Lehman

  Real, Different, Assumption

  Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

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• What I've found as I have kept writing stories is that more and more your way is barred. I feel really choked by what I already know how to do, by the fact that my obsessions nearly always mount a sneak attack, so that I find myself writing another version of the same thing.

  Catherine Brady

  Writing, Stories, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I didn't study anything really. I didn't learn out of the books because I couldn't read music very well, so it is what they say it is - you learn from other people. And my cohorts and I would sneak around the coffee shops and hear stuff we wanted to learn, and then you ask whoever was playing it to teach you.

  Joan Baez

  Coffee, Book, People

  "Q&A with Joan Baez: Even Taylor Swift thinks she's cool". Interview with Roger Catlin, www.washingtonpost.com. March 4, 2016.

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• He hadn’t been peeping intentionally; he’d been trying to sneak into my room. So that was slightly less creepy, I supposed.

  Amanda Hocking

  Creepy, Trying, Rooms

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• Motivation is like love and happiness. It's a by-product. When you're actively engaged in doing something, it sneaks up and zaps you when you least expect it.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivation, Like Love, Happiness And Love

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “Failing Forward”, p.43, Harper Collins

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• Someone came in all Starfleet badges today. Not on my shift, sadly.' 'Fascist,' Leon had said. 'Why are you so prejudiced against nerds?' 'Please,' Billy said. 'That would be a bit self-hating, wouldn't it?' 'Yeah, but you pass. You're like, you're in deep cover,' Leon said. 'You can sneak out of the nerd ghetto and hide the badge and bring back food and clothes and word of the outside world.

  China Mieville

  Hate, Ghetto, Self

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• i get a little romantic about the old Empire State. Just looking at it makes me want to play some Frank Sinatra tunes and sway a little. I have a crush on a building. I'd been in there several times but never to work. I always knew there were offices in there but the face never penetrated, really. You don't work in the Empire State Building. You propose in the Empire State Building. You sneak a flask up there and raise a toast to the whole city of New York.

  Maureen Johnson

  Crush, New York, Play

  Maureen Johnson (2009). “13 Little Blue Envelopes”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Trevor was as menacing as he was gorgeous. If he were a vampire, he'd be the dark kind, the kind that sneaks up on innocent girls and bites without a thought.

  Ellen Schreiber

  Girl, Dark, Vampire

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• Jace perched on the windowsill and looked down at him. "You really don't get this bodyguard thing, do you?" "I didn't even think you liked me all that much," said Simon. "Is this one of those keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer things?" "I thought it was keep your friends close so you have someone to drive the car when you sneak over to your enemy's house a night and throw up in his mailbox." "I'm pretty sure that's not it

  Cassandra Clare

  Night, Thinking, Car

  Cassandra Clare (2015). “City of Fallen Angels”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• I thought it was supposed to be impossible to sneak up on you. Eyes of a hawk and ears of a wolf and all.

  Kristin Cashore

  Eye, Ears, Hawks

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.435, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I used to hate swimming at school so much that I would always sneak downstairs in the middle of the night and take my swimming costume out of my gym bag and hide it in the house somewhere. Then I'd never have to go swimming at school. This went on for months and I never got caught and my Mum turned into a nervous wreck because the thought she was losing her memory... and then one day she caught me and got super angry. That was kind of bad.

  Charli XCX

  Memories, Hate, School

  Source: coupdemainmagazine.com

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• We should absolutely be concerned with ethical questions - to exactly the same degree as everyone else. It's never my intention to sneak any kind of sermon into a story - I've got no business preaching, and besides, that kind of thing plays poorly in fiction, always has.

  Roy Kesey

  Ethical Questions, Play, Degrees

  Source: therumpus.net

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