Kind Quotes - Page 181

I wanted to be a writer. I still want to be a prose writer. I feel I am more temperamentally suited to that kind of life, although there are things I still want to do with music.

Tact is kind; diplomacy is useful; euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining

When you do the kind of work I do, everything is challenging, but probably the most challenging thing is getting up in the morning and getting on with it because it's so easy to stay in bed and not get on with it.

A certain kind of permission is given to live differently, to conceptualize and to act according to a new conceptualization.

Each genre exerts a considerable spell, as a kind of "form" to be filled, as a Shakespearean sonnet is filled.

Hunches are a kind of subterranean logic shorthand.

Because to me, there is no logic of any kind behind misogyny. Therefore, it’s funny, because it’s so completely random to me. It’s senseless.

I am the kind of person that takes everything as is and then look at it from the outside looking in.

Nothing is so much calculated to lead people to forsake sin as to take them by the hand and to watch over them in tenderness. When persons manifest the least kindness and love to me, O what pow'r it has over my mind.

My favorite kinds of movies are the ones that start a conversation.

Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.

When you're doing bad things, you just don't know whether you can conquer them or not. I found out how strong I could be when I was motivated, and I'm kind of proud of that.

I never took fans for granted. I always assumed subconsciously that people who followed what I did were just people who were kind of like me.

Trips to the dentist - I like to postpone that kind of thing.

To pick out the wildest and most fantastical odd man alive, and to place your kindness there, is an act so brave and daring as will show the greatness of your spirit and distinguish you in love, as you are in all things else, from womankind.

I think of my life as a kind of music, not always good music but still having form and melody.

A writer lives in awe of words, for they can be cruel or kind, and they can change their meanings right in front of you. They pick up flavors and odors like butter in a refrigerator.

Writing is hustling of another kind.

Certainly, until there is justice for the Palestinians, there will never be any kind of stability in the Middle East.

The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom't were gross flattery to name a coward.

Death ends our woes, and the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene.

I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.

Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.

I think I live such a boring life. But I can't imagine any other kind of life, so I guess it's the life I want.

One listens to a piece of great music, say, and feels deeply moved by it, and wants to put this feeling into words, but it can't be put into words. That's what - the music has already supplied the meaning, and words will just be superfluous after that. But it's that kind of verbal meaning that can't be verbalized that I try to get at in poetry.