Sometimes Quotes - Page 99

An instrument that sometimes expresses thought, sometimes obscures thought, but most often replaces thought.

I hardly ever go to parties. If I really have to, I'll go, but I'm not the most open person, which is sometimes not the best quality.

it is not unusual to hate great writers before we learn to love them. Because they have created something that did not yet exist, they must also create their audience. Sometimes the audience is not yet ready. Sometimes it has yet to be born.

Sometimes when you do big movies, you can lose sometimes a little bit of soul.

And like a favorite old movie, sometimes the sameness in a friend is what you like the most about her.

People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.

Sometimes you're traveling a highway, the only road you've ever known and wham! A semi comes from nowhere and rolls right over you. Sometimes you dont wake up. But if you happen to you know things will never be the same. Sometimes that's not so bad. Sometimes lives instersect, no rhyme, no reason, except, perhaps, for a passing semi.

Things... well, things suck sometimes. And sometimes you can fix it. And sometimes you can't. It's just the way it is.

As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws.

A glorious failure can sometimes be more life affirming than a cautious win.

Translation is not appropriation, as is sometimes claimed; it is a form of listening that then changes how you speak.

Silence can be intimidating, sometimes provocative, sometimes a form of resistance because it dislocates.

But I'm not like sad, depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression.

And so I came to understand why some masters sometimes say, "You are already enlightened."

Sometimes the ladies involved give too much of themselves, sometimes not enough.

Sometimes there's a disjoint between what works on the page and what works with visual story telling.

Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing.

When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.

Sometimes you can't realize you're in a bad mood until another person enters your orbit.

Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)

Sometimes you can write a great scene, but when you're actually in a situation and it doesn't work, you have to be flexible enough to make it work for you.

Sometimes it's more fun to compete with your friends, because you can talk a little trash with them.

I think there's no harm, sometimes, to feel on the edge of things. If you're on the margins you can see a bigger picture. And I actually quite like standing at a peculiar angle to the universe.

Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.

Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious they are the dictator inside ourselves.