Sometimes Quotes

Sometimes I feel like the corner in the circle.

The average American is not concerned with his society. He talks about it, but you know if one speaks of being concerned, I mean something about which one loses one's sleep, sometimes.

When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.

I sometimes make pictures which are not up to my standard, but then it can only be said of a mediocrity that all his work is up to his standard.

I've never played a character that is just beautiful, but sometimes you can read scripts that sound so shallow, like women are objects. I've never done something like that, though.

But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I decided to have a go at stand-up comedy.

I think sometimes the media eggs on a lot of things and makes it worse. That's what puts a lot of things in people's heads.

If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

The rust of business is sometimes polished off in a camp; but never in a court.

Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.

Men sometimes think they hate flattery, but they hate only the manner of flattering.

It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.

Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike.

Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.

It's funny how people want to sometimes think that Young and Beautiful film is about all adolescents, but it's just the case of one girl. It doesn't mean all the adolescents are like that, of course.

Most of us, I believe, admire strength... Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength with other words like aggression or even violence.

The gilded sheath of pity sometimes covers the dagger of envy.

Sometimes we need to speak oddly to see clearly.

Sometimes you have to avoid mentioning things because people's feelings are tender.

I'm still a member of the Empire! Although I sometimes feel like an American with a British accent - you get contaminated after so long.

Sometimes a little brain damage can help.

Women want honesty but sometimes get upset if you are honest, so you need to know when to be honest.

Social media sometimes feels like a vehicle for one-dimensional sniping, more than true criticism.

Sometimes when I sleep at night I think of (Dr. Seuss's) 'Hop on Pop.'

Sometimes in this world you make unpopular decisions because you think they're right.

I have to exfoliate my lips as they're quite a large surface area and sometimes when I wear lipstick, it goes all cakey. So I mix brown sugar with lip balm and just scrub it onto them.

Sometimes if I can't sleep and I am up in the night, I will start researching things - it could be an image I've seen, or a book I am reading.

Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?

Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

When you shoot on high-definition, everything is very sharp and clear, sometimes at the cost of losing dimension and depth of field.

If you do improvising, it can sometimes end up being a waste of time. And if you do that, it's more or less based on a writing process.

I think sometimes you have high expectations for people because you have high expectations for yourself.

Sometimes you give birth to something or you're part of a team that gives birth to an idea, and it grows and has a whole life of its own, and you feel grateful. It's just so humbling.

Nobody can survive alone, in this world. People have bonds, and sometimes those bonds are broken. And then, that person goes spinning off and connects with someone else.

Sometimes presenting the most ignorant point of view can be the best way to satirize the issue and highlight that ignorance.

Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language.

I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want to do. You don't always whittle down, sometimes you whittle up.

I've learned that sometimes when people don't like what you have to say, and don't want to debate you on ideas, it's just easier to call you a dumb blonde from Fox News.

As a minister, I would rather be criticized for thoroughly weighing the options, and sometimes even voicing my doubts, than to be reproached for recklessly sending German soldiers into combat.

Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant.

Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.

Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it.

When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened.

Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.

Sometimes peace looks like war, you cannot tell them apart.

Sometimes you have to get to the heart of a character through your heart. Your own heart. And it's what makes us similar and what makes us different.

I'm a risk-taker. It's where my passion lies, so I don't want to play it safe. That means I'm going to fail sometimes.

Love itself is not an act of will, but sometimes I need the force of my volition to break with my habitual responses and pass along the love already here.

You can't grow up without taking a few knocks on the way. All parents know that, but children when they're growing up, they take some knocks, and nasty knocks sometimes if they've been too protected.