Scene Quotes

“It may be expedient to take stock of all the affecting pieces that might shatter in the wake of an emotional earthquake, once red flags come up in a committed relationship and an overarching scene has to be fashioned for a recast life experience. ("Waiting for the pieces to fall into place")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
― Christopher J. Nolan, The Dark Knight

“You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted into Miss Columbias, eagles plucked raw on the backs of quarters, all run to quicksilver in your jeans. More! Any boy hit by lightning, lift his lid and there on his eyeball, pretty as the Lord's Prayer on a pin, find the last scene the boy ever saw! A box-Brownie photo, by God, of that fire climbing down the sky to blow you like a penny whistle, suck your soul back up along the bright stair!”
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

“I will dive into my chaos, and my Abyss will turn it into an art scene.”
― Talismanist Giebra, Talismanist: Fragments of the Ancient Fire. Philosophy of Fragmentism Series.

“They say that dreams are only real as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life?”
― Richard Linklater, Waking Life

“Most times, the leader’s ornament isn’t the smiles you see on their faces during the time of victory. It is the sweats we don’t see when they were struggling behind the scenes.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

“When you realize that incompetent police officers are harassing you, you need to call 911 and demand that a police supervisor be immediately dispatched to the scene. In the mean time you need to be video recording everything, as police officers are known for their blatant lies and fabrications.”
― Steven Magee

“The waiter uncorked the bottle and poured the first taste. Pierre swirled and then lifted the glass to his nose to inhale the bouquet, the aroma of France, his homeland, He savored the taste of familiar tannins and metals, the acidity a bittersweet reminder of the laughter of children in the fields, of adults cheering long summer evenings, of long-buried emotions, Claire alive in his mouth, Pierre swallowed the wine and approved with a nod the waiter´s choice of bottle, the wine, like him, a survivor in a far-flung place.”
― Margareth Stewart, The war

“Improvisation is the power of spontaneous observation.”
― Wyatt Pringle

“..feeling is the place every story starts.”
― Dwight V. Swain, Techniques of the Selling Writer

“The carnation's flower's scent
is fragrant in the breeze.
It wakes me so I escape
the dark world of dreams.”
― Susan L. Marshall, Fleur of Yesterday

“Where I come from you don't get to call a scene a scene until someone pulls out a knife or starts throwing broken beer bottles.”
― Jayne Castle, Illusion Town

“Stay behind the scene; then you will have more freedom to work, more freedom to think and more freedom to act!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The universe no longer seems to me a scene, at least in front of the great, blank curtain of the unknowable, filled by an orderly progress of more or less cognizable and predictable occurrences, depending upon interrelated causes; it seems the playground of the irresponsible, prankish, malevolent somethings, productive of incalculabilities.”
― Edward Lucas White, The Stuff of Dreams: The Weird Stories of Edward Lucas White

“Pero desde ese momento, Hermione Granger se convirtió en su amiga. Hay algunas cosas que uno no puede compartir sin terminar unido, y derrumbar un trol de tres metros y medio era una de esas cosas”
― J.K. Rowling

“There are three things that any scene in a book or short story can do: (1) It can advance the plot, (2) It can explain the background or backstory, or (3) It can deepen the characterization.”
― Patricia C. Wrede, Wrede on Writing: Tips, Hints, and Opinions on Writing

“Complaints are useless said one, complaints are like alarms said second. Neither are complaints useless neither alarms - only useless alarms are useless, great complaints can lead to great things.

If no one knows of the fire, who calls [or] comes to help.

Character of the act.”
― Vithaeristw

“Testing test”
― Testy McTesterson, Testy Book 1 and 2

“Dejisko sa nemení. Na dejisku je vždy niečo osudové; nie je to náhoda, ak sa v tej či onej izbe niečo prihodí. (Južný vietor)”
― Márai Sándor

“Aucun n'est d'un métal si pur qu'il laisse l'autre sans voix.”
― Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

“The most hideous scene of life and the world is, the lamentation of a hungry child.”
― Yash Thakur

“It is quite obvious that nothing in life happens peacefully, it needs to create a scene out of everything.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Life! It always has something puzzling to say and something new to show. It happens when it's least expected, such a turn, such a scene!”
― Noha Alaa El-Din, It's Hard to Please Vandanya: The Suitcase

“Nonetheless, the gamers had taken up with gusto the challenge laid down by software manufacturers, and before long a significant subculture of cracker groups had flowered. Its members’ sole aim was to crack games and other software the minute they came onto the market and then parade their cracking skills to their peers.

The cyber underworld was born, although it would quickly start fracturing into very different communities – some good, some bad.”
― Misha Glenny, DarkMarket: Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You

“Euria was like most of the sprawling metropolises in Erhard: tall skyscrapers that didn’t so much kiss the sky as ram their fist through it, their shadows casting a perpetual false night across the ground where the unfortunate dwelled.”
― C.E. Clayton, Resistor

“Was für eine armselige Gestalt er abgibt. Steht da mit verzerrtem Gesicht, seine eine Hand hält die, mit der er gerade die Türscheibe eingeschlagen hat. Es gelingt ihm nicht, mich anzuschauen. Ob er blutet, frage ich ihn. Natürlich blutet er. Ich sehe ja überall die Spritzer. Schon als das erste Wort meinen Mund verlässt, weiß ich um die Unnötigkeit meiner Frage. Aber mehr Empathie schaffe ich gerade nicht. Er widert mich zu sehr an. Mein Mitleid ist schon lange aufgebraucht.”
― Paulina Czienskowski, Ein Manifest gegen die emotionale Verkümmerung

“...Yol kenarına kütüklerin istiflendiği ormanlık arazilerden geçtik. Üst üste duran kayaların, akla çocukça şeylerle uğraşan yapayalnız bir Tanrıyı getiren o göz alıcı manzarasını geniş kıvrımlarla yol alarak seyrettik...”
― Barış Bıçakçı, Bizim Büyük Çaresizliğimiz

“There was a small commercial area a little further on, clustered around a crossroads where a huge latticework globe stood on a plinth of black baserock. Maps, some entire and others patchworked from islands or continents, none bigger than a child’s hand, were scattered thinly across its surface. The home map, Gea, was a squarish red tile close to the equator, smaller than most of the rest, and a silvery ball representing the Heartsun was spindled at the centre, and everything was spattered by the droppings of a fractious parliament of vivid green birds which had colonised the globe’s pole, chattering each to each and scolding passers-by.”
― Paul McAuley, War of the Maps

“Community, as I've come to understand it, only complements capitalism. The groups I took part in were formed with a narrow range of ages, backgrounds, experiences, identities, beliefs, and activities. Inclusion within them was based on strict boundaries that were internally and externally enforced. I recognize that the communities I experienced in my home region were not communities at all, but scenes.”
― Stacy Jane Grover, Tar Hollow Trans: Essays

“Any scene (so long as it's a scene and not life) can be played. Whether well or badly it can be played. And it won't last more than a few minutes.”
― Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde