Sometimes Quotes

• Throughout history, the really fundamental changes in societies have come about not from the dictates of governments and the results of battles, but through vast numbers of people changing their minds, sometimes only a little bit.

  

  Willis Harman
  • People
  • Government
  • Results

• I don't like karaoke because the mics are always so worn out. The quality of the mics is such that you're always going (screaming) "Yeah, yeah!" and then you can't like it. It's like sometimes I'm too professional to get up and do it.

  

  Rebel Wilson
  • Sometimes
  • Worn

• As a director, when you cut scenes from a movie, you do it with the idea that it is making the story move forward and progress. Sometimes, you don't realize that something is actually a sidetrack for the story, or it takes the tension out of a scene.

  

  Catherine Hardwicke
  • Progress
  • Cutting
  • Realizing

• Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much.

  

  Missy Franklin
  • People
  • Focus
  • Articles

• I just look at women sometimes and I just want to ask them, "Do you know how fabulous you are?"

  

  Viola Davis
  • Want
  • Looks
  • Fabulous

• Sometimes to be a good parent... You have to laugh when you want to be angry. You have to be angry when you want to laugh. And that is why good parenting is tough.

  

  Daniel Pearce
  • Parent
  • Laughing
  • Tough

• When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring.

  

  Rick Moody
  • Sometimes
  • Example
  • Boring

• Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world.

  

  Tina Weymouth
  • World
  • Perception
  • Clown

• Quality effective leaders have the confidence to trust others to try, succeed, and sometimes to fail. We very often confuse personality with leadership. In other words, leadership is not about being a nice person or not a nice person.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Trying
  • Quality
  • Personality

• So a lot of people are like, "What are you thinking? Why are you buying size 10?" Well, I'm 5 feet 9 1/2 inches and a size 4. Even though that's what I wear, between a 4 and a 6, a 10 sometimes hangs better on me. Especially the not-as-good materials.

  

  Molly Sims
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Materials

• I think a lot of comedians sometimes pretend to find the job more taxing than it is.

  

  Dani Levy
  • Think
  • Pretend
  • Comedians

• The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies. I'll show you my collection some day.Good.They want to know what I do with my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I won't tell them what. I've got them running. And sometimes, I tell them, I like to put my head back, like this, and let the rain fall in my mouth. It tastes just like wine. Have you ever tried it?

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Fall
  • Wine
  • Rain

• Sometimes you get lost and you find something new.

  

  Dan Bern
  • Sometimes

• Sometimes people with low self-esteem will try to punish you for caring about them.

  

  Wayne Gerard Trotman
  • People
  • Trying
  • Caring

• I've learned a lot about stage-managing for illustration. Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image. I've also learned to making big-scale design decisions early.

  

  Scott Westerfeld
  • Character
  • Decision
  • Design

• Being in front of a camera, in a nice dress, getting all dressed up is extreme. There's a lot of other extreme situations, you know, just getting out of bed sometimes is extreme - but I do it. Just got to do it, just got to get up. Put your sweatpants on, brush off the dog hair and just get out of the house!

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • House
  • Nice
  • Dog

• Not all coincidence has to be loaded with meaning. Sometimes, things simply recur because that's how it is in life, that's how the mood gets in. It's good to subtly overdo it too, as Nabokov does, as Sebald does. It's a good way to intensify that region of localized weather that we call a novel.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Way
  • Mood
  • Novel

• It's funny how that comes up, because sometimes I'll write something and I'll think, I don't know if that's a film or a play, and then other things I feel very strongly about them just being plays - they feel very theatrical to me.

  

  Neil LaBute
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Film

• Do you mean am I worried about people seeing me with my jeans off? Sure. Sometimes people are overcome. They fall down. They hit their heads. It's worrying.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • People
  • Mean
  • Worry

• When love is full grown it has few words, and sometimes it growls them out.

  

  George Horace Lorimer
  • Love
  • Words
  • Sometimes

• Anyone who agrees to be interviewed must decide where to draw the line between what is public and what is private. But the line can shift, depending on who is asking the questions. What puts someone on guard isn't necessarily the fear of being 'found out.' It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Agree
  • Asking
  • Draws

• Sometimes. It was a good escape. Until, you know, it wasn‟t.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Sometimes
  • Escape

• So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Wanted
  • Boys
  • Understood

• Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Sometimes
  • Window

1

...

73

74

75

76

77

...

92

previous

next