Score Quotes - Page 12

• Half of them kept repeating my name, trying to get it right, while the other half laughed. But they were harmless. Fun drunks make a nice addition to any party: Not looking to fight. Not looking to score. Just looking to get drunk and laugh. I remember those guys. Like the mascots of the party. "Clay! Whatcha doon here? Bah-ha-ha-ha!

  Jay Asher

  Fun, Nice, Party

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.108, Penguin

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• As I get considerably beyond the biblical allotment of three score years and ten, I feel with increasing intensity that I can express my gratitude for still being around on the oxygen-side of the earth's crust only by not standing pat on what I have hitherto known and loved. While oxygen lasts, there are still new things to love, especially if compassion is a form of love.

  Norman Maclean

  Gratitude, Biblical, Compassion

  Norman Maclean (2017). “Young Men and Fire: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition”, p.7, University of Chicago Press

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• Don’t touch me. It makes my skin crawl. (Grace) Grace! I can’t believe you– (Selena) At least she didn’t spit in my face with her dying breath. (Julian) They shoot, they score. A direct hit straight through the heart and into the raw nerves. (Selena)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Believe, Heart, Grace

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• Yes, yes, I know all the jokes. What else could I have expected at Highbury? But I went to Chelsea and to Tottenham and to Rangers, and saw the same thing: that the natural state of a football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

  Nick Hornby

  Fútbol, Decepción, Aficionados

  Nick Hornby (2005). "Fever Pitch", p.14, Penguin UK

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• Okay that’s it. Now I’m torching this. I just need to score a match.

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Needs, Okay

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Runaway”, p.10, Laurel Leaf

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• But it is much later in the game now, and ignorance of the score is inexcusable. To be unaware that a technology comes equipped with a program for social change, to maintain that technology is neutral, to make the assumption that technology is always a friend to culture is, at this late hour, stupidity plain and simple.

  Neil Postman

  Ignorance, Technology, Simple

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.130, Penguin

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• Then let amourous kisses dwell On our lips, begin and tell A Thousand and a Hundred score A Hundred and a Thousand more

  Diana Gabaldon

  Kissing, Lips, Hundred

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1397, Dell

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• Addicts, as a group, generally score far above average o intelligence tests. Why? You tell me. I guess maybe we're smart enough to have figured out how shitty things are and we decide addiction is the only way to deal with it.

  James Frey

  Smart, Average, Addiction

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.208, Anchor

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• The world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine. -Dionysus

  Rick Riordan

  Stupid, Fall, Perfect

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• El cerebro es más que un conjunto de módulos autónomos, cada uno crucial para una función mental específica. Cada una de estas áreas especializadas funcionalmente debe interactuar con docenas o cientos de otras, y su integración total crea algo parecido a una orquesta enormemente complicada con miles de instrumentos, una orquesta que se dirige a sí misma, con una partitura y un repertorio siempre cambiantes.

  Oliver Sacks

  Creating, Brain, Orchestra

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• No me puedo creer que lo hayáis arreglado, bromistas". Hi se dirigía a la playa. "Créetelo, payaso. Demasiado poder cerebral aquí para fallar". Todavía entusiasmado, Shelton lanzó otra palma hacia Ben. "Seguro". Hi se estiró, bostezó. "¿Era algo muy técnico, supongo? ¿Algo que requiriera habilidad mecánica? Nada tan sencillo como apretar un cable o accionar un interruptor, ¿verdad?". Ben enrojeció. Shelton se interesó por sus zapatillas. Un punto para Hi.

  Kathy Reichs

  Playa, Creer, Simple

  Kathy Reichs (2010). "Virales", p.26, Penguin

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• ¡El marcador sigue Q a 12!

  Bill Watterson

  Fotogramas

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• Everybody is waiting for the end to come, but what if it already passed us by? What if the final joke of Judgment Day was that it had already come and gone and we were none the wiser? Apocalypse arrives quietly; the chosen are herded off to heaven, and the rest of us, the ones who failed the test, just keep on going, oblivious. Dead already, wandering around long after the gods have stopped keeping score, still optimistic about the future.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Optimistic, Long, Waiting

  "Memento Mori". Short story by Jonathan Nolan, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Eso es lo que me gusta de los deportes. No importa si todos los que juegan hablan idiomas completamente diferentes, en el campo o en la pista, dondequiera que estén jugando, el lenguaje de las jugadas, los pases y los goles es el mismo. Universal.

  Rachel Cohn

  Deportes, mudanzas, juegos

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). "Dash & Lily's Book of Dares", p.102, Knopf Books for Young Readers.

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• We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake." "A habit.

  Orson Scott Card

  Mistake, Miracle, Trying

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.121, Macmillan

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• Deep down inside, my heart knew the score. And I know that Haven was wrong. It's not always a case of one loving more than the other. When two people are truly meant to be, they love equally. Differently - but still equal.

  Alyson Noel

  Corazón, Dos, Personas

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• I realized that life is so short: Why waste one minute of it worrying what other people think or say about you, or what score you got on some test? Why not believe what you want to believe, and do what you love?

  Meg Cabot

  Believe, Thinking, Worry

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• Parecían chicas. Sentimientos encontrados al respecto. Ya no las despreciaba con la misma pasión que antes. De hecho, Benny sospechaba que llegaría un momento en un futuro no muy lejano en el que podría desarrollar un misterioso interés por ellas.

  Eoin Colfer

  Girl, Passion, Feelings

  Eoin Colfer (2012). “Benny and Omar”, p.23, The O'Brien Press

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• The Chasers throw the Quaffle and put it through the hoops to score,” Harry recited. “So — that’s sort of like basketball on broomsticks with six hoops, isn’t it?” “What’s basketball?” said Wood curiously. “Never mind,” said Harry quickly.

  J. K. Rowling

  Basketball, Mind, Woods

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• Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score.

  Jack Kerouac

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.228, Penguin

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• It seemed a place where heroes could fitly feast after victory, where weary harvesters could line up in scores along the table and keep their Harvest Home with mirth and song, or where two or three friends of simple tastes could sit about as they pleased and eat and smoke and talk in comfort and contentment.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Song, Hero, Home

  Kenneth Grahame, Seth Lerer (2009). “The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition”, p.97, Harvard University Press

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• She would allow him to comfort her. And perhaps, someday, she would listen patiently if a dark, dreary night found him well in his cups and he drunkenly confessed to still feeling scores of wounds that weren’t his own, but those of men under his command.

  Tessa Dare

  Oscuridad, Noche, Hombres

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• Gareth turned to Gregory. “Your sister will be safe with me,” he said. “I give you my vow.” “Oh, I have no worries on that score,” Gregory said with a bland smile. “The real question is—will you be safe with her?” It was a good thing, Gareth later reflected, that Hyacinth had already quit the room to fetch her coat and her maid. She probably would have killed her brother on the spot.

  Julia Quinn

  Brother, Real, Giving

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• CLAIRE:your washing right? shane:i'll pay you for it. claire:what? shane:best high score wins claire:no bet 'wash, dish boy

  Rachel Caine

  Winning, Boys, Pay

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• You don’t need scores of suitors. You need only one… if he’s the right one.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Needs, Suitors, Little Women

  "Fictional character: Younger Amy March". "Little Women", www.imdb.com. December 21, 1994.

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