This Series Quotes

Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.

But I began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another.

She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.

For each person there is a sentence—a series of words—which has the power to destroy them.

Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.

Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes.

My life is a series of dumb choices

I've always believed happiness is overrated, you know? It’s those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it’s a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses.

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.

Life is series of opportunities. The often neglected fact of life is that opportunities multiply as you take advantage of them.

Six years ago, I completed the premier episode of Hawaii Five-O, and Jack Lord and I immediately realized that we had a good series, that this was a success such as we'd never hoped for!

Watching other teams in the World Series is like watching somebody else eat a Hot Fudge Sundae.

Marriage like government is a series of compromises. One must give and take, repair and restrain, endure and be patient.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.

And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.

It seems to me that you won't have had a proper series of adventures, unless you've gone through thick and thin.

I really want to see the Cubs in the World Series. I really do.

Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.

Poetry, above all is a series of intense moments ­ its power is not in narrative. I'm not dealing with facts, I'm dealing with emotion.

I am a series of small victories and large defeats.

A game is a series of interesting choices.

Let us labor for that larger comprehension of truth, and that more thorough repudiation of error, which shall make the history of mankind a series of ascending developments.

To me, the Sherlock Holmes stories are about a great friendship. Without Watson, Holmes might well have burnt out on cocaine long ago. I hope the series shows how important friendship is.

They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real.

The university is a series of individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance about parking.

A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

This is a hump you have to get over, and it usually comes in the first series. You get over the hump and you're on a roll.

Class is considerate of others. It knows that good manners is nothing more than a series of petty sacrifices.

Life is a series of problems. Do we want to moan about them or solve them?

My life has always been a series of challenges and I'm psychologically-prepared but this is the biggest challenge of my life.

Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of kinds of items in a given arrangement.

Actually 'Soon' has more than the Left Behind series, but I really believe less is more.

Wilderness areas are first of all a series of sanctuaries for the primitive arts of wilderness travel, especially canoeing and packing.

I wanted to do Buddy Faro as a small budget movie. They said no. So I wanted to do it as a series of recurring TV movies, and they said no. So I agreed to do it as a series.

I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the cake.

You might argue that the history of contemporary art is a series of avant-garde movements, each new wave outraging the last.

However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individually we're smart guys, but together we're one big dumb guy, and couldn't concentrate on two things at once.

In the night the cabbages catch at the moon, the leaves drip silver, the rows of cabbages are a series of little silver waterfalls in the moon.

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

For my Perfect Chemistry series, I did movie-style book trailers, and my fans went crazy for them.

My life has been, I suppose, the most incredible series of highs and lows.

Conceive of a picture really as a series of harmonies.

Progress is not made by pulling off a series of stunts. Each step has to be regulated. A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.

When you're the lead of a series, things happen around you, and you react to them.

Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times.

The soul is dyed by the thoughts. Dye it then, with a continuous series of such thoughts as these - that where a man can live, there - if he will - he can also live well.

Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face.

I think our life is a series of adventures.

LIFE IS JUST A SERIES OF MOMENTS.IF YOU MISS THE MOMENTS,YOU MISS YOUR LIFE

"Transparent" is a drama slash comedy series that could, in theory, make the Emmy nominations next year in either of those categories - it's that good.