Be Kind Quotes

At the very core of what a comic is, time and space are kind of the same thing. When your reader moves her eyes across the page, she should be moving through time in your story.

I believe men's faces come in two kinds: Faces that need a blade, and faces that need an electric. I never was happy with an electric. I became pizzaneck.

There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having.

I don't like my books being defined by their "about"-ness. So now the subtitle has just become a kind of strap-line on the cover.

For so long I didn't have any kind of readership at all - I'd get published, but not read - the idea of writing for an audience is so anathema to me, it's never bothered me.

I've never been much drawn towards satire of any kind. I don't like that style whereby you kind of stitch people up. But the deeper thing is that I just find these people so impressive and admirable.

Nothing reveals a man's character better than the kind of joke at which he takes offense.

Cultivate that kind of knowledge which enables us to discover for ourselves in case of need that which others have to read or be told of.

He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.

I've never been able to reuse characters, I've often wanted to. I've never been able to get people to cooperate. I can't get anyone together on any kind of deal.

Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.

...compelling outdoor imagery always combines some kind of personal connection to nature and skillful technique. The former seems to be a form of grace, and the latter an act of the will.

Always, when I get onto horseback, I'm kind of terrified of being up there.

The modern Australia, the Australia of the 21st Century, Malcolm Turnbull's Australia has nothing to do with the kind of protectionist and xenophobic attitudes that Pauline Hanson represents.

I became a guy who wanted to be a comedian someday, or a comic actor. The way I put it was, I'll be like Danny Kaye. He was kind of the model I had in mind.

You ever notice that? Any time you see two groups of people who really hate each other, chances are good they're wearing different kind of hats. Keep an eye on that, it might be important.

I still listen to black metal all the time - that's obviously one of my favorite kinds of music - but I steer from it very strongly.

But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country.

It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.

One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated.

The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind.

Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation.

... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.

I still think that there's some kind of psychological investment in black athletes carrying the flag for "us" at times. So, sports [remains a] metaphor for struggle and triumph and flair.

The kind of president we need has little to do with ideology and more to do with a willingness to wield power to moral ends.

You know what I've kind of come to realize is that I'm a huge Drew Barrymore rom-com fan. There are so many of her movies that I love.

I grew up in San Francisco. And so I'm informed in a certain kind of way about, you know, believing in democracy and believing in America. And I'm a very ardent patriot.

For 'Star Wars' I had to develop a whole new idea about special effects to give it the kind of kinetic energy I was looking for. I did it with motion-control photography.

I’m moving away from the business, from the company, from all this kind of stuff.

I find it difficult enough as it is to keep some kind of normality in my life. I enjoy this experience, but I don't know where I'm going to take my career.

The main downside was that it [fame] happened so quickly and I didn't have time to establish what kind of person I wanted to be.

I don't just want to do something that is purely stuck in a genre box. I would like to have the kind of autonomy...

Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are.

It's kind of funny to read the work of ex-Marines and soldiers because what they said to me as a reporter was only a fraction of what they were thinking and feeling and saying to one another.

Kind? How boring that would be. I aspire to be wicked.

The only kind of reform usually possible is reform from within; a more intimate study and more intelligent use of the traditional forms.

Even when the faith goes away, there's that space where you crave something bigger than yourself. For me, that's kind of where art came in, after that.

It is very easy for us to go, you know, "I am being cruel to be kind," when really we are just ... being cruel. Because it makes us feel big, or whatever.

So many people mentioned this at these rallies. You go to these things and it's kind of like an oldies concert. I mean, it's not hostile.

I think something that I can't name about our media has made us move away from that kind of specificity and that kind of curiosity.

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too.

I am always considering the reader. Although this is admittedly kind of odd: Which reader? On what day? In what mood? For me, that "reader" is actually just me, if I had never read the story before.

I watched a bunch of kids movies on Christmas. I was kind of joking with our family by asking, "Is anyone allowed to die in a kid's movie anymore?"

I'm turning 58, and you get that kind of weird, old-guy feeling of you don't have an infinite number of years left and if there's anything you want to say or represent, it's time to try it.

I know that my only chance at any kind of depth or profundity is to linger within the story, trying to make it distinguish itself.

In the absolute sense - kind of from the God's-eye view - God might feel like, "I made this thing that has all of that in it, all the horror and all the beauty."

The internet kind of feels like happiness sometimes, however. It feels like stimulation.

I think when you get to export your creative impulse into something, it kind of lessens that busy energy that can be so confrontational and pissy.

As a kid, I had a real fascination with perverse, off-color, and kind of risky things, and I also had a very sanctimonious Catholic, purist side.