Sue Grafton Quotes
Sometimes being fooled by love is worth the price. At least you know you're alive and capable of feeling, even if all you end up with is chest pain.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
-
Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.
-
In life, sometimes you just lose.
-
Bad things happen sometimes.
-
I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.
-
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
-
Fear can make all of us do the wrong things sometimes.
-
I think we could all do better sometimes of not overextending ourselves as much.
-
Mankind progresses not smoothly, as by a sliding carpet ascent, but by rugged steps broken by gaps. He halts long on one stage before taking the next. Often he remains stationary, unable to form resolution to step forward - sometimes even has turned round and retrograded.
-
As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.
-
I'm somebody who doesn't feel the need to be in the driver's seat all the time. I appreciate the perspective of being in the passenger's seat sometimes, and I feel fortunate for that because I've learned a lot from that perspective.
-
The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.
-
And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.
-
My, oh my, how 'Sometimes When We Touch' has travelled since I solemnly wrote my first version at the age of 19.
-
I think, as an actor, you're always traveling. There's a sense of dislocation sometimes from home.
-
I like to think I'm a bit smarter than I sometimes let on.
-
There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.
-
Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and you don't nail it, even if they're like, 'We don't need to see you again,' get a friend, get a video camera, and film you doing the stuff again.
-
One of the most powerful feelings in the world is after a really, really long run.
-
Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities in directing one's course by it, still one must try to follow its direction.
-
It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
-
I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
-
A scientist is only a human being, a particle in the whole universe. How can the observations and logic of a particle measure the life and size of a phenomenon that is limitless?
-
Sometimes being fooled by love is worth the price. At least you know you're alive and capable of feeling, even if all you end up with is chest pain.
