These Days Quotes - Page 14

• It's the only thing that keeps me going these days, travelling. Changes of scene, changes of faces

  David Lodge

  Faces, Scene

  David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.275, Penguin

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• There's lots of law these days, but not much justice. Celebrities murder their wives and go free. A mother kills her children, and the news people on TV say she's the victim and want you to send money to her lawyers. When everything's upside down like this, what fool just sits back and thinks justice will prevail?

  Dean Koontz

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Dean Koontz (2012). “One Door Away from Heaven: A superb thriller of redemption, fear and wonder”, p.466, Hachette UK

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• We are a society that constantly celebrates no one but women and it must stop! I want to hear what the men of the world have been up to. What fun new guns have they invented? What are they raping these days? What’s Michael Bay’s next film going to be?

  Tina Fey

  Fun, Gun, Men

  "Tina Fey: 'Ugly, pear-shaped and bitchy? I prefer offbeat, business class-assed and exhausted" by Tina Fey, www.theguardian.com. April 18, 2011.

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• Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art.

  Alma Gluck

  Art, Energy, Literature

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• These days I think the composers of music influence me more than any photographers or visual creators. I see something exciting or lovely and think to myself: 'If Papa Haydn or Wolfgang Amadeus or the red-headed Vivaldi were here with a camera, they'd snap a picture of what's in front of me.' So I take the picture for them.

  Ralph Steiner

  Thinking, Lovely, Cameras

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• These days everyone was insisting on their identity, coming out as a man, woman, gay, black, Jew - brandishing whichever features they could claim, as if without a tag they wouldn’t be human.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Gay, Men, Black

  Hanif Kureishi (2009). “The Black Album”, p.66, Faber & Faber

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• Are there bears in these mountains?" he asked. His companion nodded. "Of course. But it's a bit early in the year for them to be moving around. Why?" Halt let go a long breath. "Just a vague hope, really. There's a chance that when the Temujai here you crashing around in the trees, they might think you're a bear." Erak smiled, with his mouth only. His eyes were as cold as the snow. "You're a very amusing fellow," he told Halt. "I'd like to brain you with my ax one of these days." "If you could manage to do it quietly, I'd almost welcome it," Halt said.

  John Flanagan

  Letting Go, Moving, Eye

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• Eat bitter, taste sweet," Frank said. "I hate that proverb." "But it's true. What do they call it these days---no pain, no gain? Same concept. You do the easy thing, the appealing thing, the peaceful thing, mostly it turns out sour in the end. But if you take the hard path---ah, that's how you reap the sweet rewards. Duty. Sacrifice. They mean something.

  Rick Riordan

  Sweet, Pain, Hate

  Rick Riordan (2011). “The Son of Neptune (Heroes of Olympus Book 2)”, p.270, Penguin UK

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• These days her entire life was about making people believe she was someone she wasn't anymore.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, People

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Some of these days, Oh, you'll miss me honey

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Missing, Honey, Miss Me

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2014). “Bulantı”, p.164, Can Yayınları

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• So violent. You want to mug and tase everybody these days." "I do," Zuzana agreed. "I swear I hate more poeple every day. Everyone annoys me. If I'm like this now, what am I going to be like when I'm old?" "You'll be the mean old biddy who fires a BB gun at kids from her balcony." "Nah. BBs just rile 'em up. More like a crossbow. Or a bazooka.

  Laini Taylor

  Hate, Mean, Kids

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• These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another.

  David Nicholls

  Morning, Night, Tendencies

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.98, Hachette UK

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• And indeed it was, the arrow still protruding from its wet, grayish skin, humping its body along with incredible speed. A flick of its tail caught the edge of a statue, sending it flying into the dry ornamental pool, where it shattered into dust. “By the Angel, it just crushed Sophocles,” noted Will. “Has no one respect for the classics these days?

  Cassandra Clare

  Angel, Dust, Arrows

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• She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

  David Nicholls

  Writing, Sleepovers, Wasting Time

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• There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build.

  Randy Pausch

  Inspirational, Teacher, Children

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The Last Lecture”, p.69, Hachette UK

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• One of these days, you're going to fall in love with some guy, and you're not going to know what to do with yourself.

  Jane Roberts

  Falling In Love, Guy, Knows

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• I cannot admit this out loud. In the first place, we are expected to be supermoms these days, instead of admitting that we have flaws. It is tempting to believe that all mothers wake up feeling fresh every morning, never raise their voices, only cook with organic food, and are equally at ease with the CEO and the PTA.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Morning, Believe

  Jodi Picoult (2010). “House Rules: A Novel”, p.178, Simon and Schuster

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• These days, you’ve gotta milk a dollar out of every dime.

  Gayle Forman

  Dollars, Dimes, Milk

  Gayle Forman (2011). “Where She Went”, p.8, Penguin

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• Unexpectedly, a fierce sense of protectiveness comes over me. Except I fight it back because I can hardly look after myself these days.

  Melina Marchetta

  Fighting, Looks, Fierce

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• I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z’ed up.

  John Green

  Character, Flaws, Intellectualism

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• Men have, for the most part, done with lamenting their lost faith. Sentimental tears over the happy, simple Christendom of their fathers are a thing of the past. They are proclaiming now their contempt for Christ's character, and their disgust at the very name of love. Scorn and hatred, difference and division, must be more than ever our lot, if we would be the followers of Christ in these days. Conventional religion and polite unbelief are gone forever.

  Neville Figgis

  Love, Father, Character

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• The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography, so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for you automatically but I still think there's a point where you should actually know the technical side.

  Graeme Le Saux

  Photography, Thinking, Curves

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• You must take a year off, one of these days, before you’re old and tired and weighed down by responsibility. Go away somewhere, and read. Read all the important books. Educate yourself, then you’ll see the world in a different way.

  Helon Habila

  Book, Responsibility, Tired

  Helon Habila (2010). “Oil on Water”, p.181, Penguin UK

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• Then she declared loudly, "Smoke break!" and everyone's eyes came to us, some of them shocked seeing as these days you could light up a doobie and no one would blink but if you lit up a smoke, you courted being publicly stoned to death.

  Kristen Ashley

  Eye, Light, Smoking

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• Most rappers these days is actors,
  And I can't keep watching the same movie.

  Mick Jenkins

  Rap, Hip Hop, Actors

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