Quotes of: Special-occasion Keyword

[Rob turns off Barry's tape] Barry: OK, buddy, uh, I was just tryin' to cheer us up so go ahead. Put on some old sad bastard music, see if I care. Rob: I don't wanna hear old sad bastard music, Barry, I just want something I can ignore. Barry: Here's...

High Fidelity

Eventually I fell asleep in the Rabies and Lycanthropy section. Woolsey bites on occasion, and I'm concerned.' - Magnus Bane

Clockwork Princess

All desire, Tracy had had occasion since to think, is to some degree monstrous.

The Coming Storm

For M & B. Should you ever get to read this, to remind you that when life offers you a challenge: rise to the occasion.

Forget Heels!

COLUMBUS BROUGHT SMALLPOX TO THE NATIVES; WE SHALL RECALL THE OCCASION WITH A PICNIC!

The Fault in Our Stars

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

Henry James

You’ll find a way. You’ll always find a way. And on the rare occasions when you can’t, you’ll have friends who will.

Afterlife

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion." [ ]

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion…

Sense and Sensibility

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

Tales of Belkin

A society, on occasion, can be the worst possible describer of mental health.

Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

Pride and Prejudice

At times his arrogance did resolve itself into simplicity, though it was difficult, especially for strangers, to distinguish these occasions.

Voss

Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.

Wonder

I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.

Daniel Handler

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

George Eliot

On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.

Pierre Salinger

Hats are really for ultimate occasions, so when I make one, I try to do something different, something noticeable.

Philip Treacy

Life is like a game of limbo in reverse. The bar keeps rising higher and we need to keep rising to the occasion.

Ryan Lilly

I'd studied Latin for five years now, which meant that I could, on rare occasions, actually translate something.

Kate Hattemer

My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.

Lincoln Steffens