Sometimes Quotes - Page 173

The pavilion that seems to intercept divine aid does not cover God but occasionally covers us. God is never hidden, yet sometimes we are, covered by a pavilion of motivations that draw us away from God and make Him seem distant and inaccessible.

Committees are consumers and sometimes sterilizers of ideas, rarely creators of them.

Unfair in practice is not the same thing as wrong in principle, but sometimes it has to do.

Even angels must find their wings too heavy sometimes.

Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.

Sometimes I feel weird about time. Sometimes I feel that it doesnt go in the order we perceive it. There are... repetitions that maybe we decide not to notice because it is simpler. I like to pick up on those moments.

Writers can get very angry when an actor says, "I don't know, I don't feel very comfortable with this line." Sometimes though, you're working with a writer for whom that is simply not apt - like Harold Pinter.

Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a little bit too polite.

What I like about mixing fiction and non-fiction is being able to fully explore an idea without being bound by genre. If you scratch under any surface there are histories for everything, aren't there? And there's unknown women's history in everything, too. It all gets simplified because its complexity is more than you can stand sometimes. So you need full freedom of expression.

As a writer, you want to go somewhere else sometimes. You want to vary the terrain that you're exploring.

Sometimes it can be useful to read your bad reviews.

Sometimes I just walk through; I just show up, as in The Other Sister.

Sometimes you have to take a chance and just go with it

The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.

He sometimes wondered if she had become involved with him just so that she could cry in someone's arms. Maybe she can't cry alone, and that's why she needs me.

To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts.

Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us. If we were no longer here, words would lose their whole function. They would end up as words that are never spoken, and words that aren't spoken are no longer words. - (Where I'm Likely To Find It)

Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.

Sometimes your greatest strength can emerge as a weakness if the context changes.

The comic impulse is sometimes a reaction to sadness. You feel like you can make one choice or the other.

I'm somebody who plays the piano... sometimes

Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

The thing I love about sketch is sometimes it leads you as opposed to you leading it.

To be a scientist you have to be willing to live with uncertainty for a long time. Research scientists begin with a question and they take a decade or two to find an answer. Then the answer they get may not even answer the question they thought it would. You have to have a supple enough mind to be open to the possibility that the answer sometimes precedes the question itself.

Sometimes the most difficult thing you can do as an editor is not make a single note - the idea that everything and everyone needs editing is, in reality, a fiction. I've gotten pieces where I thought, Well, I could do this or that, or change this word, but in the end, I leave it. Changing something is not necessarily equivalent to making the piece more true to itself, which is the point of editing: it's just changing it because you feel you can or should or must.