Fit Quotes

• What was once a cottage industry dedicated to the discovery and development of new voices and works has become instead the raison d'etre for many a playwright's existence . . .. And since readings have become playwrights' main source of exposure, the nature of playwriting has changed to fit readings' needs. Investigation into what is eminently theatrical has been substituted - more and more these days - by what can simply come across and read well.

  

  Caridad Svich
  • Reading
  • Existence
  • Changed

• The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • World
  • Study
  • Employee

• I was diagnosed with full-body cancer. I am the healthiest person you know. You know I do it all. I take vitamins. I grew my own food. I do everything. And it didn't fit, and it was so awful.

  

  Suzanne Somers
  • Body
  • Persons
  • Cancer

• But it was okay not to fit in everywhere, as long as you did somewhere.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Long
  • Fit

• If Star Wars had been released in the late '60s, or late '80s, or late '90s, adjusting for technology, it fits spectacularly well.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • War
  • Technology
  • Fit

• All characters come from people I know, but after the initial inspiration, I tend to modify the characters so they fit with the story.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • People
  • Character
  • Inspiration

• No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

  

  William Penn
  • Men
  • Business
  • Wisdom

• I just can't stand to look plain, 'cause that don't fit my personality. I may be a very artificial-looking person, but the good news is, I'm very real on the inside.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Real
  • Personality
  • Fit

• The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

  

  Russell Baker
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Real

• I always thought I was so fit.

  

  Rod Stewart
  • Fit

• I stared hard, trying to find a pattern. Thinking if I kept looking hard enough, maybe the pieces of the world would fit back together into something I could understand.

  

  Carol Rifka Brunt
  • World
  • Trying
  • Together

• Live theater is just an incredibly powerful medium, and I think anyone who goes, whether they know about it or not, if they see something that sort of fits with them, it's kind of hard to deny that they had a good time.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Kind
  • Powerful
  • Theater

• The thing that doesn't fit is the thing that is most interesting.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Interesting
  • Fit

• No part of the aim of normal science is to call forth new sorts of phenomena; indeed those that will not fit the box are often not seen at all. Nor do scientists normally aim to invent new theories, and they are often intolerant of those invented by others.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Theory
  • Aim
  • Scientist

• Once given, a gift is yours to use, store or dispose of as you see fit.

  

  Carolyn Hax
  • Given
  • Fit
  • Stores

• To this day, I don't love my arms. People want more fit arms, but my arms are too fit. But I'm not complaining. They pay my bills.

  

  Serena Williams
  • People
  • Complaining
  • Arms

• But the original was there as well—more jaded and rudimentary, functional rather than romantic. It fit not just the yellow house but another door, deep within my own heart. One that had been locked so tight for so long that I was afraid to even try it for fear of what might be on the other side

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Long
  • Trying
  • Heart

• It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Waiting
  • Easy
  • Despair

• I kind of have to take pieces of myself to fit what it is that radio wants.

  

  Normani Kordei Hamilton Fifth Harmony
  • Radio
  • Pieces
  • Fit

• Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Shadow

• The high intellectual value of images, however, lies in the fact that they usually, and perhaps always, fit more than one actual experience.

  

  Susanne Langer
  • Lying
  • Values
  • Facts

• And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Certain
  • Hell
  • Fit

• If you take anything that succeeded, just imagine it succeeding 10 years before or 10 years after, you could almost always make, with the same plausibility, the "it fit the times" argument.

  

  Cass Sunstein
  • Succeed
  • Argument
  • Fit

• Why spend your life trying to fit in, when you are born to stand out?

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Life
  • Born
  • Fit

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