Sometimes Quotes - Page 147

Sometimes the only way to become grounded is to hit bottom.

Sometimes "Yes" is rhetoric enough.

I just don't know how to stitch words in a predictable way sometimes. It's a weird instinct I've developed.

I felt it's vague enough for the reader to pull their own story and their wisdom out of the poem, but for me, it's actually very painfully transparent what I've written. Sometimes very literal, which is scary.

Sometimes I feel too transparent in my poetry, but that's what I think the beauty of poetry is, because as transparent as the author can be, it's usually only a reflection of what the reader can interpret, and based on their own personal experiences.

It was scary how much she sounded like me sometimes. Maybe that's why she totally got on my nerves

Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.

Sometimes to be seen is the same thing as being saved.

The comma, if it's left out, sometimes can be a problem. There's a slogan on a T-shirt going around that "Let's Eat, Grandma," and "Let's Eat Grandma."

Sanity is sometimes a matter of going on, outwardly, as if everything is all right.

The fact is that gardening, more than most of our other activities except sometimes love-making, confronts us with the inexplicable.

I'm as true a Protestant, in sooth, as any fine lady that walks into church, but it's not wrong to turn sometimes to the good St. Nicholas.

I have read of women who have been strongly, grandly brave. Sometimes I have dreamed that I might be brave. The possibilities of this life are magnificent.

Principles are sometimes an unaffordable luxury.

Sometimes I frown and I don't realise it.

She disapproved, but part of her seemed secretly to sympathize with the sickness. It was like she thought everybody had it, and the best you could do was to cover it up, and sometimes it would just come boiling out anyway. Then you had to point at it and condemn it, even though you knew you had it too.

I think, as we go through life, we can sometimes, while still staying essentially true to ourselves, pick up mannerisms or modes of expression that are like curlicues. And there was a lot of that that I recognized sometimes. And I remembered, sometimes dimly, why those phrases felt so tasty to me, why that particular curl felt so good to me. But from my point of view now, it was almost inaccurate. It changed the meaning of what I was saying in a way that it seemed like a distortion.

Adultery is like, here's the way it is, and here's exactly what you're supposed to do. It's like cheating at Monopoly. For me, it just doesn't apply to human relations. I mean, I use the word sometimes because it's fair and everybody knows what it means, but I find it a very irritating word.

Sometimes now was enough. Sometimes it was everything.

Sometimes it just seems that love is not enough, does it?

Was memory always as much of a burden as it could sometimes be a blessing.

Love me, and tell me so sometimes.

Sometimes the best revision of a poem is a new poem.

Behaviorism is sometimes criticized as encouraging unethical behavior. For example, most organizations offer rewards for increasing revenue and threat of punishment, perhaps firing if you don't "make your number."