not many people QUOTES

1 " I've got mixed feelings about poetry cause done well poetry is fantastic. But not many people are capable of doing it well. I think you should have some kind of license to perform poetry. A poetic license perhaps. "

― Craig Ferguson

2 " That kiss you gave me was the hottest kiss i've ever had. I pulled away because i was afraid i wouldn't be able to stop myself from ripping off your clothes. And that didn't seem like the right way to end a first date. I didn't want you to think that was all i was interested in." She stared at him. There was silence again, but this time she didn't worry about how long it went on." Why didn't you tell me?" She said finally." I tried to, but every time i saw you afterward you disappeared. I got the feeling you were avoiding me." " i didn't want things to be awkward." " Yeah, there was nothing awkward about you hiding behind a plant when i came into the dining hall at lunch on wednesday." " I wasn't hiding. I was, um, breathing. You know, oxygen. From the plant. Very oxygenated, that air is." " Of course. I should have thought of that." " It's a healthy thing. Not many people know about it. "

3 " Owllwin was easiest the most contrary person Cricket had ever known. He was arrogant but humble, cowardly but brave, foolish but wise. He was funny, but sometimes she caught him crying when he was off on his own. It were as if he pushed himself to be a better person in spite of himself, in spite of his own failings, and Cricket secretly admired the fact: not many people were willing to admit they had faults in the first place. "

― , The Infinite Athenaeum (A Time of Darkness, #2)

4 " Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something. "

― John Green , The Fault in Our Stars

5 " There is always a choice." " You mean I could choose certain death?" " A choice nevertheless, or perhaps an alternative. You see I believe in freedom. Not many people do, although they will of course protest otherwise. And no practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based. "

6 " Nice hair.’ Olivier turned to Clara, hoping to break the tension.
‘Thank you.’ Clara ran her hands through it, making it stand on end as though she’d just had a scare.
‘You’re right.’ Olivier turned to Myrna. ‘She looks like a frightened doughboy from the trenches of Vimy. Not many people could carry off that look. Very bold, very new millennium. I salute you.’
Clara narrowed her eyes and glared at Myrna whose smile went from ear to ear. "

― Louise Penny , A Fatal Grace (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #2)

7 " He wondered if he should try to talk to the boy like that. Perhaps the boy wondered why he didn't. But they had silence, and not many people had that. "

― Nick Harkaway , Tigerman

8 " We must come to the Bible with the purpose of self-exposure consciously in mind. I suspect not many people make more than a token stab in that direction. It's extremely hard work. It makes Bible study alternately convicting and reassuring, painful and soothing, puzzling and calming, and sometimes dull - but not for long if our purpose is to see ourselves better. "

― Larry Crabb , Inside Out: Real Change Is Possible If You're Willing to Start from The...

9 " The Tejo runs down from Spain
And the Tejo goes into the sea in Portugal.
Everybody knows that.
But not many people know the river of my village
And where it comes from
And where it’s going.
And so, because it belongs to less people,
The river of my village is freer and greater. "

― Alberto Caeiro , The Keeper of Sheep

10 " This is a feeling that you had, Quentin, she said. Once, a very long time ago. A rare one. This is how you felt when you were eight years old, and you opened one of the Fillory books for the first time, and you felt awe and joy and hope and longing all at once. You felt them very strongly, Quentin. You dreamed of Fillory then, with a power and an innocence that not many people ever experience. That's where all this began for you. You wanted the world to be better than it was. "

― Lev Grossman , The Magician's Land (The Magicians, #3)

11 " I often say never write about white people. Not many people realize what I mean by this. Its pretty simple. Some may think its unrealistic to have an ethnically diverse cast but its ten times more unrealistic to see a cast of only white people. Like I don't know where you've grown up but the world isn't that way, at least not if your reading this post in English. "

― Adam Snowflake

12 " Oh yes. It's open all right, but not many people come in here to look at me now so there's no point in selling tickets. No one is interested in a man who professes to be a monster. They'll give me notice very soon. I started out being a great attraction, but people soon understood that what fascinated them about me was no more than the reflection of their own deformities. All I do is how them what is inside themselves,' He added mournfully. "

― Isobelle Carmody , Greylands

13 " I guess it can’t be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make love because they are laughing, laugh because they’re making love. The love and the laughter come from the same place: but not many people go there "

― James Baldwin , If Beale Street Could Talk

14 " Come on.” He dropped a heavy hand on my back, between my shoulder blades, and my breath stalled.

I was effectively silenced by his touch. Perhaps that was why he did it. Not many people would blame him and probably wished they wielded that kind of power over me. "

― Jennifer L. Armentrout

15 " Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do. "

16 " I think the best thing about my job is that I have my life documented, which not many people get to have. They have a photo here and there and maybe some video footage from a birthday. My kids will be able to see me growing up. "

17 " My photography is mainly focused on my work making movies, which I've done my whole life. I think I have a perspective that not many people have. And I get to take advantage of all of the strange sources of light on a set. "

18 " I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies. "

19 " The two Hindi movies that I did were not marketed well, and so not many people came to watch the film, hence the audience doesn't know much about me. I am a newcomer, and I cannot sell a film on my own. There has to be a backing in terms of producers. "

20 " A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others. "