Incidents Quotes - Page 2
Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.
Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.43, Vintage
Marriage, to woman as to man, must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it.
Rick Warren (2010). “Daily Inspiration for the Purpose Driven Life: Scriptures and Reflections from the 40 Days of Purpose”, p.97, Zondervan
George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion
Are not most professional mathematicians spared all trouble incident to income?
Tobias Dantzig (1954). “Number, the Language of Science: A Critical Survey Written for the Cultured Non-mathematician”
Apparently, word of the chicken man incident hadn’t spread quite yet.
Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion
Ka knew very well that life was a meaningless string of random incidents
Orhan Pamuk (2011). “Snow”, p.244, Faber & Faber
Kazuo Ishiguro (2010). “The Remains of the Day”, p.179, Vintage
Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “Never Let Me Go”, p.71, Faber & Faber
To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.
John Lyly (1964). “Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit; Euphues & His England”
George Eliot (189?). “Scenes of clerical life”
he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.163, e-artnow
I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.
Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.33, Univ. Press of Mississippi
What was a life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves of incident.
Colum McCann (2013). “TransAtlantic”, p.155, Bloomsbury Publishing
Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection”, p.286, Lulu.com
Agatha Christie (2010). “Endless Night”, p.9, HarperCollins UK