Momentsthat Quotes

#1. Some times our thoughts and dreams are more real than the rest of our experience and at other momentsthat which happens to us overshadows anything we might imagine.

Keith Donohue

#2. Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.

Jeanette Winterson

#3. He unzipped his hooded top and took it off, and wished emotions were like clothes, that he could remove them, fold them, set them somewhere.

Nick Laird

#4. I tend to watch things that aren't really the genre of my own work.

Jenny Slate

#5. Is it any wonder, since, when near the fire,
I was melted and burned, if now that it's extinguished
outside me, it besets and consumes me inside,
and bit by bit reduces me to ashes?

Michelangelo Buonarroti

#6. The gap between most people's capacity to conjure beauty from scratch and to merely recognize it when they see it is the width of the Atlantic Ocean.

Lionel Shriver

#7. If you can realistically render
a cypress tree, would you include one when commissioned to paint
a sailor in the midst of a shipwreck?

Horace

#8. Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never.

Charles Caleb Colton

#9. I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.

Babette March

#10. It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.

Pericles

#11. The cold November sun sent weak rays onto the floor of the old house. The floor beneath snickered, trying hard to hold back snaps of bawdy laughter. The temperature dropped with ease.

J. Thorn

#12. I can actually trace the moment I decided I couldn't be a doctor. It was in biology, they brought in these African crickets and we were supposed to dissect them - but there's no way I was touching those bugs.

Meg Rosoff

#13. Gave him the weapon he needed to break me. Finnick and I sit for a long time in silence, watching

Suzanne Collins

#14. Finally, I told them I'd drop out of the management program if they'd give me an entry-level job in the newsroom for union wages, about fifty dollars a week.

Andrea Mitchell

#15. You aint ready for that.

Cormac McCarthy