uninvited QUOTES

1 " No one invites you to the top - you have to claw your way up. When you get there, you will sit with the others who were also uninvited - giggling. "

2 " You never know these days. Uninvited guests may force you to take an unplanned trip to an unknown destination "

3 " … she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a Jehovah’s Witness: uninvited and tireless. "

― Steve Toltz

4 " Neurons are built to better remember the incompleted, the unfinished, the uninvited & the unwanted! "

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5 " If I am not persistent with my desire to think about other things, and consciously initiate new circuits of thought, then those uninvited loops can generate new strength and begin monopolizing my mind again. To counter their activities, I keep a handy list of three things available for me to turn my consciousness toward when I am in a state of need: 1) I remember something I find fascinating that I would like to ponder more deeply, 2) I think about something that brings me terrific joy, or 3) I think about something I would like to do. "

― Jill Bolte Taylor , My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

6 " I think it is a wise person who does not answer the door to uninvited police officers. Who knows what kind of crazy person could be standing there with a loaded gun! "

― Steven Magee

7 " Loss is the uninvited door that extends us an unexpected invitation to unimaginable possibilities. "

― Craig D. Lounsbrough

8 " For some reason Miss Jenner had seen fit to come uninvited to Sebastian’s home at a scandalously late hour. To make the situation even more compromising, she was unaccompanied—and spending more than a half minute alone with Sebastian was sufficient to ruin any girl. He was debauched, amoral, and perversely proud of it. He excelled at his chosen occupation—that of degenerate seducer—and he had set a standard few rakes could aspire to. "

― Lisa Kleypas , Devil in Winter (Wallflowers, #3)

9 " PDR: Persons of Dubious Reality; refugees from the collective consciousness. Uninvited visitors who have fallen through the grating that divides the real, from the written. They arrive with their actions hardwired due to their repetitious existence and the older and more basic they are, the more rigidly they stick to them. Characters from cautionary tales are particularly mindless; they do what they do because it's what they've always done.

And it's our job to stop them. "

― Jasper Fforde , The Fourth Bear (Nursery Crime, #2)

10 " The next time someone pesters you with unneeded advice, gently remind him of the fate of the monk whom Ivan the Terrible put to death for delivering uninvited (and moralizing) advice. It works as a short-term cure. "

― Nassim Nicholas Taleb , The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

11 " He's the thrilling, scary Boyfriend who's going to dare you to do things you'd never dreamed of, shower you with unreasonable presents, and show up uninvited at the most embarrassing times. Then he's going to stick with you, refusing to take the hint when you don't answer his calls. "

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12 " It is said that when a person is experiencing death, and when shards of life begins to disintegrate from his mortal body, he starts getting a flashback of his entire life right in front of his eyes, like a reverie – a dream, or sometimes even a nightmare. When a person is dying, he can get a brief look of all the significant milestones of his life right in front of his eyes, as if time doesn’t exist and he is still right there, in that moment, where everything is possible; where he can get a piece of forever, while living in that uninvited flashback, and dying in his life, both at the same time. "

― Bhavya Kaushik , The Infinite Equinox

13 " My life is flashing lights and pointing fingers and uninvited visitors. Inches away, humans flatten their little hands against the wall of glass that separates us.

The glass says you are this and we are that and that is how it will always be. "

― Katherine Applegate , The One and Only Ivan

14 " Hello dead girl," Isola said, ever the hostess." Hello heartbeat girl," said the uninvited guest. " It's like a drum, it's so fucking loud. Turn it down, will you? "

15 " As a rule there is one thing you can always count on in our job — popularity. There are plenty of disadvantages I grant you, but you are liked and respected. Ring people up any hour of the day or night, butt into their houses uninvited make them answer a string of damn fool questions when they want to do something else — they like it. Always a smile and the best of everything for the gentlemen of the Press. "

― Evelyn Waugh , Scoop