Sometimes Quotes

• You know coaches. Sometimes they ramble.

  

  Paul Pierce
  • Sometimes
  • Knows
  • Coaches

• I flicked my eyes over to Steve again and saw him straighten. He would need a diversion just to start. “Explanations?” I bellowed. “Explanations? There’s your explanation…there!” I stabbed a finger dramatically towards the far corner of the room. Pathetic, really. I mean, talk about the oldest trick in the book. But it’s a good book, and the trick would have been cut from subsequent editions if it didn’t sometimes work.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Mean
  • Sometimes
  • Eye

• Sometimes you do have people who are great at curating; sometimes you have people curating who don't know what they're do.

  

  Sheila Heti
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Knows

• At the end of the day, when it comes down to it, all we really want is to be close to somebody. So this thing where we all keep our distance and pretend not to care about each other, it's usually a load of bull. So we pick and choose who we want to remain close to, and once we've chosen those people, we tend to stick close by. No matter how much we hurt them. The people that are still with you at the end of the day, those are the ones worth keeping. And sure, sometimes close can be too close. But sometimes, that invasion of personal space, it can be exactly what you need.

  

  Shonda Rhimes
  • Care
  • Hurt
  • Distance

• Sometimes the hardest part of my job is the incessant reminder of the fact we're all trying so assiduously to ignore: we are here temporarily. Life is only ours on loan.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Trying
  • Sometimes

• Sometimes rescue comes to you. It just shows up, and you do nothing. Maybe you deserve it, maybe you don't. But be ready, when it comes, to decide if you will take the outstretched hand and let it pull you ashore.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • Hands
  • Deserve
  • Ready

• When it comes to conservative social issues, it saddens me when sometimes my fellow Republicans duck and cover in the face of pressure from the left. Our loudest opponents on the left are never going to like us so let's quit trying to curry favor with them.

  

  Rick Perry
  • Social
  • Issues
  • Republican

• It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.

  

  Stephen Ambrose
  • Way
  • Sometimes
  • Changed

• It's sometimes a painful process. It's a change that has to be motivated by a higher purpose, by the willingness to subordinate what you think you want now for what you want later.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Purpose
  • Motivated
  • Painful

• It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Crazy
  • Able
  • Mess

• So you wound up with Apollo/If he's sometimes hard to swallow/Use this.

  

  Paul Newman
  • Sometimes
  • Hard
  • Wounds

• I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

  

  Sara Gruen
  • Book
  • Certain
  • Outlining

• That's the way the system works. Sometimes you get the bear, sometimes the bear gets you.

  

  Sue Grafton
  • Sometimes
  • Luck

• You never want conflict. But sometimes conflict is inevitable.

  

  Richard Seymour
  • Sometimes
  • Conflict
  • Inevitable

• When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Long
  • Waiting
  • Realizing

• Sometimes experience trumps assumption.

  

  Whoopi Goldberg
  • Sometimes
  • Assumption

• Sometimes you may even have a stunt double do certain things for you, but when it's close-up and it's really dramatic, that's when you really need to concentrate. You cannot get body doubles or anybody else to do it for you.

  

  Svetlana Khodchenkova
  • Certain
  • Dramatic
  • Concentrate

• Sometimes we don't want to accept who we really are, and we lie to each other, to ourselves.

  

  Miguel Angel Silvestre
  • Sometimes
  • Lying
  • Accepting

• Pieces and parts were always easier to process. The full picture, the entire story, was another thing entirely. But you just never knew. Sometimes, people could surprise you.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • People
  • Surprise
  • Easier

• Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Life
  • Sometimes

• My brother & I have always said that to write a song, it takes all the experiences of your life, plus the time it takes to write it! To be specific, yes, sometimes a song takes place in one session - together in one day.

  

  Richard Sherman
  • Writing
  • Together
  • Song

• Sometimes, the word 'voluntary' is a little complicated.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • Sometimes
  • Complicated

• Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Shows
  • Producers
  • Casts

• Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • War
  • Sometimes
  • Looks

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