Lately Quotes

#1. The spirit of quarrelsome comradeship which he had observed lately in his rival had not seduced Stephen from his habits of quiet obedience. He mistrusted the turbulence and doubted the sincerity of such comradeship which seemed to him a sorry anticipation of manhood.

James Joyce

#2. I've been stabbed lately with life.

Pepper Phillips

#3. God feels like He's taken a road trip lately and I'm not sure I want to track Him down.

Kimberly Stuart

#4. I brought us all Big Macs," he said happily. "I know you dig 'em, remember?" "What the ... " Tohr tightened his grip on his shellan, just in case ... well, shit, with the way things were going lately, anything could happen. "What are you doing here?" "It's your lucky day, motherfucker.

J.R. Ward

#5. Film acting would be about 80 percent better than it has been lately if actors did their homework, if they didn't have egos that took the size of their talent for granted.

Rod Steiger

#6. Now, it's true I married my wife for her looks ... but not the ones she's been givin' me lately.

Jeff Foxworthy

#7. messages, as the spirits of this very year last past (supernaturally deficient in originality) rapped out theirs. Mere messages in the earthly order of events had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British subjects in America: which,

Charles Dickens

#8. Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.

Cameron Russell

#9. I have turned down a lot of garbage lately.

Burt Lancaster

#10. Lately, the only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distaste for manual labor.

Scott Adams

#11. I was very tired of being hit, but it seemed like the one thing I did well lately.

Robin Hobb

#12. I have seen more men than usual, lately; and, well as I was acquainted with one, I am surprised to find what vulgar fellows they are.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. Ask a deeply religious Christian if he'd rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don't seem so bad lately.

Scott Adams

#14. I don't know what's been up with him lately, but it wasn't my place to ask. Kyle doesn't work, but he keeps a nice car and plenty of cash. I just assumed he was selling drugs, but it was never confirmed.

Chenell Parker

#15. He was lonely; I wanted to help, of course, but not from so intimate a distance; and lately our meetings had become memorable as a series of comically protracted farewells on station platforms and embarrassed, hasty protestations of friendship made through the windows of departing taxicabs.

M. John Harrison

#16. Conned any other women out of their valuables lately ?" she says quietly, so quietly that only he will hear it.
"Nope. I've been too busy stealing handbags and seducing the vulnerable."
Her head shoots up and his eyes lock on hers. He is, she sees with some shock, as furious as she is.

Jojo Moyes

#17. Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.

Camille Paglia

#18. So, what do you do, Ellie? he asked. Well, previously, I held a position on death row, but lately I've been a vampire's plaything. Soon I'll be sacrificed so the Soul Reaper and the Enemy of Old can make babies.

Kresley Cole

#19. Lately it has become more and more difficult to attend dinner parties without the evening ending in gunfire or tapioca ...

Daniel Handler

#20. Have you hugged your customers lately? Have you told 'em you care? Have you reached out boldly and said 'We know you're there?

Tom Reilly

#21. Lately I've been runnin' on faith. What else can a poor boy do?

Jerry Lynn Williams

#22. I've been just wondering lately, if this is, you know, it. An apartment and a steady job and some people to love. What more could I want?

Michael Cunningham

#23. It's useless to try and make rhyme or reason of it, because one guy thinks one thing and the other guy sees a whole other thing. So I try not to take them too seriously. Lately I have them screened so I only read the positive ones.

David Zucker

#24. said "let's send that fuckin' Flowers up there. He hasn't done anything for us lately."
"He's off today," somebody said.
Davenport said, "So what?

John Sandford

#25. For years, she had been in mourning for the way she had let her life slip through her fingers. Given another chance, she'd told herself, she would take more care to experience it. But lately, she was finding that she had experienced it after all and just forgotten, and now it was returning to her.

Anne Tyler

#26. Karma, continuing the Screw Dez kick it seemed to be on lately ...

Jus Accardo

#27. A thought comes into her head: that lately she doesn't ask herself what is possible, but rather what possibilities remain.

Carol Shields

#28. What has been happening more lately - of course, I also put in my bio, I say I do the voice of Goliath, but some people go - you know, I say something, and it's a funny thing when you work in this business, people will talk out loud in front of you like you're not there.

Keith David

#29. I don't really know what it means to move on, but lately, with Sky, I'm starting to feel like I want to because when I look at her, I don't see you or the war or any of the shit in my head. I just see her, and it's like suddenly I can breathe again after holding my breath for so long.

Heather Demetrios

#30. Someday love will find me in the rough. Someday love will finally be enough. I shine a little more lately.

Anna Nalick

#31. I haven't been very impressed lately.
By people,
or places,
or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.

Charlotte Eriksson

#32. I find it very heartening that of the women I have questioned lately about their feelings towards their mother, all the ones whose faces light up and who say, 'She's wonderful' have been daughters of women who work outside the home.

Mary Stott

#33. Do not be mad because someone is more successful than you are. What have you done lately to (en.hance), enhance your own success?

Jon Jones

#34. People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.

Graham Nash

#35. It only takes one line, from one poem to change your world...What has poetry done for you lately?

David S. Cross

#36. Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.

Rohinton Mistry

#37. Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.

Jodi Picoult

#38. Let me ask you both something. Is there anything strange that's been going on around the inn lately? I mean besides the murder and theft.

Tim Myers

#39. Please forgive my appearance. I am lately come from setting a house on fire.

Clare Boylan

#40. I identify [myself] as a stand-up first. Even though lately there's been an explosion of acting on my schedule.

Patton Oswalt

#41. Snape looked horrified. 'You have kept him alive so that he can die at the right moment?'
'Don't look shocked, Severus. How many men and women have you watched die?'
'Lately, only those whom I could not save', said Snape.

J.K. Rowling

#42. If any doubt has arisen as to me, my country [Virginia] will have my political creed in the form of a "Declaration &c." which I was lately directed to draw. This will give decisive proof that my own sentiment concurred with the vote they instructed us to give.

Thomas Jefferson

#43. Well, I haven't convinced anyone to take a bite out of an apple lately, so I think we're all pretty safe for the time being.

J.M. Darhower

#44. What is it with people wanting to kill me lately? I'm starting to take it personally.

Heather R. Blair

#45. You're being nicer to me than I've been to you lately," I said.
"Yes, I am. But then, Hitler was nicer to Poland than you've been to me lately.

Molly Ringle

#46. Boyfriends and literature: How can you make a life out of those two things? As it turns out, I did; more literature than boyfriends lately, but I guess you can't have everything.

Susanna Kaysen

#47. The planes are crowded and noisy and late, and everybody hates everybody. If armed terrorists had tried to hijack any of the flights I've been on lately, we passengers would have swiftly beaten them to death with those hard rolls you get with your in-flight meals.

Dave Barry

#48. Something had offended her and failed to apologize. Not lately-long ago. Life probably.

Joseph Hansen

#49. Revising stuff lately, I was shocked to see how often my characters scratched their ankles, felt their feet, and touched their own ears.

Elizabeth McCracken

#50. Before I got married, I never really watched TV. Now, my husband and I watch 'The Bachelor' together. I love 'The Soup' - that's where I get a lot of my pop culture - and 'Chelsea Lately.'

Dylan Lauren

#51. He was just getting started. He was ready to bust wide open. He could feel it. Big things. Big things were coming. From him. From everywhere. That was the feeling he got lately, as if the whole world had been held in a stable, him included. But soon, soon it was going to bust out all over the place.

Dennis Lehane

#52. My ambition from the very beginning was to make a good part for myself, something differently to what lately I've been doing.

Harrison Ford

#53. Black has always been a staple for me, but that's not really a good favorite color. I've been really into browns lately.

Dave Douglas

#54. (from: Age Sixty-nine)
Often, lately, the night is a cold maw
and stars the scattered white teeth of the gods, which spare none of us. At dawn I have birds, clearly divine messengers that I don't understand
yet day by day feel the grace of their intentions.

Jim Harrison

#55. I have lately returned from Harpers Ferry, to which place I was suddenly called, on the 17th instant, by causes the most disturbing and destructive to the peace and safety of this State.

Henry A. Wise

#56. I have done enough bullshit lately, I just have to make time for something better. Something good.

Stefan Sagmeister

#57. I love chocolate cake for breakfast," Peggy stalls, "it sets me up for the day. A little decadence is good for the soul." She's been eating more cake than usual, lately. Impending death does have compensations after all, then, if only chocolate-covered ones.

Menna Van Praag

#58. I listen to a lot of different music. I love hip-hop. I'm a big underground rap fan. I listen to the likes of J. Cole. Lately, I've also been getting into techno house music. And I've been on an Eighties retro kick, and I've even been experimenting with some rock.

Denzel Whitaker

#59. Lately I find myself staring at people's faces ... I find myself frantically searching through the crowds for one face. I don't find that face; I cry inside. Weeping for the identity I know no more.

Phindiwe Nkosi

#60. There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations.

Jean De La Bruyere

#61. One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l'Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.

Honore De Balzac

#62. I also watched a lot of football and sports. I haven't had much time to watch too much TV lately.

Casper Van Dien

#63. Lately
I've been dreaming about you
About us
Sharing our secrets
Talking, even if we argued
Kept talking, till we slept
Maybe I woke up
On the wrong side of bed
Maybe I thought about you
Just a little too much

Irum Zahra

#64. There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can't, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.

Terry Pratchett

#65. The cure for him would be to take a good long look at some potato plants, which have lately had such a deep and distinctive colour and tone, instead of driving himself mad looking at pieces of yellow satin and gold leather.

Vincent Van Gogh

#66. But lately I'm like a beatnik in a movie. Fuck this bourgeois shit, baby! Let's be pure of heart again!

Jenny Offill

#67. Thus spoke the devil to me, once on a time: "Even God has his hell: it is his love for man". And lately did I hear him say these words: "God is dead: of his pity for man has God died".

Friedrich Nietzsche

#68. I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.

Katharine Hepburn

#69. He'd been thinking about a lot of things lately, things that would
never happen, things it was best not to think about. Things like waking up with Delaney every morning for the rest of his life and watching her hair turn
gray.

Rachel Gibson

#70. I paint as I want to with no holds barred. I am more contented lately than I have been for a long time about my work. But not dangerously so.

William Dobell

#71. I've been wondering lately whether fear is necessary for survival, whether it sharpens the senses during storms of uncertainity. Or is it, as I suspect, merely another variant of weakness?

Cristina Garcia

#72. My greatest fear in working is always the end. Lately I have taken to tricking myself into finishing by leaving a hole in the middle somewhere, then stitching the two pieces together - the Union Pacific approach.

Twyla Tharp

#73. You could move to Europe."
"You know, I've actually been considering that lately."
Kai laughed again, the warmth returning to the sound. "If that's not a vote of confidence, I don't know what is.

Marissa Meyer

#74. [Mark] Twain called Congress "the only distinctly native criminal class in America. We've lately sent a United States Senator to the penitentiary." That was a fact.

Hal Holbrook

#75. The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves.

William Shenstone

#76. Hello, James," Deven replied mildly. "Had any consensual sex lately?

Dianne Sylvan

#77. I have a profound admiration for Fellini. I met him lately and he's just fantastic. I feel very close to him even though he's very Italian. But his films could have been made in every country. When I say, I feel close to him, then also because we're both born on January 20th.

David Lynch

#78. The longest piece of literature I've read lately was a tattoo on this biker I picked up last night. It said, If you're this close, you've gotta suck it.

Eric Arvin

#79. What has gotten into you lately? Save a little craziness for menopause!

Woody Allen

#80. My child has changed things for me. Lately, I really wish there were greater roles for women. I think I see it in a different way now. I look at my little girl and I don't want her to think that all she has to be is pretty and quiet.

Brooke Smith

#81. Lately, I've become accustomed to the way
The ground opens up and envelopes me
Each time I go out to walk the dog.

Amiri Baraka

#82. Rick Perry has made so many gaffes lately, it is hard to tell if he's running against President Obama or Joe Biden.

Jay Leno

#83. When you see most companies get big, they want to shout about all they've done. But the consumer wants to know: 'What have you done for me lately?'

Kevin Plank

#84. My Lord, my Lord! What hath Thou done lately?

Woody Allen

#85. Lately the muse has been treating me like Ike treated Tina.

Quentin R. Bufogle

#86. Lately in a wreck of a Californian ship, one of the passengers fastened a belt about him with two hundred pounds of gold in it, with which he was found afterwards at the bottom. Now, as he was sinking- had he the gold? or the gold him?

John Ruskin

#87. I've been ignoring my feelings lately. That works pretty well. Might also settle for less this week, just to try it out.

Dane Cook

#88. But friendship is precious, not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life; & thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. I will recur for proof to the days we have lately passed. On these indeed the sun shone brightly.

Thomas Jefferson

#89. I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

David Sedaris

#90. Lately with work, and, you know, the baby thing. Obviously it would never happen again and he was very, very, very sorry and he loved her so much and God, it was such a relief to have this

Liane Moriarty

#91. Alice, 'it would be of very little use without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only know how to begin.' For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very

Lewis Carroll

#92. He always felt like an untamed animal around Sarah, but lately it was different. She was all he ever thought about, and any time away from her felt too long. Angel closed his eyes and kissed her. Then the words came out without warning. 'I love you, Sarah.' -Angel Moreno

Elizabeth Reyes

#93. This was happening to me more often lately: suddenly, pieces of the puzzle were gone - bites out of time, empty moments during which my thoughts must have been elsewhere.

Herman Koch

#94. Lately, I'd been feeling like I was standing outside watching everything and everybody. Wishing I could take the part of me that was over there and the part of me that was over here and push them together - make myself into one whole person like everybody else.

Jacqueline Woodson

#95. When I was older and I first started working, I was obsessed with buying my first Chanel jacket. I saved up my hard-earned money, went to Barneys, and bought a little black Chanel jacket. It saw many, many job interviews and many, many events. I'm not fitting into it lately, but I still have it.

Nina Garcia

#96. The big male gestured to a chair in the corner. "Mind if I sit?"

She nodded her acquiescence. "Go right ahead. That chair has seen more tail than a rock star lately.

Elisabeth Staab

#97. I'm also thinking a lot lately that Descartes has so much to answer for - his idea, "I think therefore I am." Western culture is so built around this overly cerebral disembodied way we've created all of our institutions, and we're impoverished by it. We're so much smaller for it. So

Krista Tippett

#98. It is too easy lately to drink too much. To love the warm way it numbs. And I feel Jake watching me; he's counting my drinks too.

T. Greenwood

#99. Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.

Kim Edwards

#100. It's a question we all ask ourselves. What have we done lately? It rattles us each birthday.

Daniel H. Pink