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Stephen King Quotes - Page 36

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The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling — a somehow melancholy feeling. He was outside; he passed on the wings of the wind, and none of the people beyond the brightly lighted squares of their

The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling — a somehow melancholy feeling. He was outside; he passed on the wings of the wind, and none of the people beyond the brightly lighted squares of their windows saw him. They were inside, inside where there was light and warmth. They didn't know he had passed them; only he knew. It was a secret thing.

Lonely, Squares, Light

Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

How many times, over how many years, had he—a grown man—asked for the mercy of another chance? He was suddenly so sick of himself, so revolted, that he could have groaned aloud.

Men, Years, Sick

Stephen King (2008). “The Shining”, p.237, Anchor

That's the curse of the reading class. We can be seduced by a good story even at the most inopportune moments.

Reading, Class, Stories

He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. - Doctor Sleep

Believe, Sleep, Doctors

Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

The Overlook was still not done with him. Written on the mirror, not in lipstick but in blood, was a single word: REDRUM

Mirrors, Blood, Done

Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

The world was the Overlook Hotel, where the party never ended. Where the dead were alive forever.

Party, Forever, Alive

Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

The shining. It was a good name, a comforting name, because she had always thought of it as a dark thing.

Dark, Names, Shining

Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

You’d be surprised what a person can live with,” Dan said.

Said, Persons

Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.310, Simon and Schuster

Want a Coke?” Abra asked. “Sugar solves lots of problems, that’s what I think.

Thinking, Want, Sugar

Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.330, Simon and Schuster

I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

Eye, Past, Gone

Stephen King (2014). “Doctor Sleep”, p.485, Simon and Schuster

Time is a face on the water.

Time, Water, Faces

Robin Furth, Stephen King (2006). “Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance”, p.508, Simon and Schuster

At nineteen, it seems to me, one has a right to be arrogant; time has usually not begun its stealthy and rotten subtractions. It takes away your hair and your jump-shot, according to a popular country song, but in truth it takes away a lot more than that.

Country, Song, Time

Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.

Sad, Time, Loneliness

Stephen King (2010). “The Green Mile: The Complete Serial Novel”, p.363, Simon and Schuster

There are really very few economies of scale in centralising or standardising advertising.

Business, Advertising, Economy

Advertising tends to be most effective in jogging finally into action those people who are well-enough disposed towards a product, but have not yet got around to buying it.

Business, People, Jogging

The only leverage the manufacturer can apply to the retailer is his relationship with the consumer. And the main element in profit growth is going to have to lie in making his brand more valuable to the retailer, through its being more valuable to the consumer. And that means his brand must be unique, it must have no adequate direct substitutes - because it is in this, after all, that value lies.

Business, Lying, Mean

A campaign, like a brand, is not just a number of bits put together - a claim here, a pack shot there, a reason why somewhere else. If we try to produce it by the atomistic approach, we will end up with a sort of Identikit brand. It will be a perfect description of the structure of the brand, as the Identikit can describe the contours of the face. But it won't be the same thing. The brand will never come to life.

Business, Somewhere Else, Numbers

"Stephen King 1971: What is a brand?". www.campaignlive.co.uk. October 5, 2007.

It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves.

Business, Argument, Clear

No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver....The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh.

Betrayal, Flesh, Pay

Robin Furth, Stephen King (2006). “Stephen King's The Dark Tower: The Complete Concordance”, p.494, Simon and Schuster

My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight; I never forgot it.

Mom, Mother, Brother

His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.

Fathers Day, Mother, Cat

I don't want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got, the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that. It's, it's not as bright. So, that's my little commercial for that.

Jobs, Army, Iraq

"Writer Stephen King: If You Can't Read, You'll End Up in the Army or Iraq". www.newsbusters.org. May 5, 2008.

Zombies are the new vampire.

Zombie, Vampire

... don't let your elders and supposed betters tell you any different. Sure, you've never been to Paris. No, you never ran with the bulls at Pamploma. Yes, you're a pissant who had no hair in your armpits until three years ago - but so what? If you don't start out too big for your britches, how are you gonna fill 'em when you grow up? Let it rip regardless of what anybody tells you, that's my idea; sit down an smoke that baby.

Wisdom, Baby, Growing Up

As a species we're fundamentally insane.

Insane, Species

"The Mist". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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