Sometimes Quotes

Sometimes when people look at the work I've done with my family, they think it's autobiographical. But it really isn't. It's more about the idea of family.

Whatever my party affiliation, I will continue to be guided by President Kennedy's statement that sometimes party asks too much.

The solicitor general is sometimes referred to as the 10th Supreme Court justice - a pretty important position.

Sometimes you do know, in 'Commando' when I said 'I lied', I knew that it was going to be a funny line. I've never had a bad line.

Have you not sometimes seen happiness? Yes, the happiness of others.

Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I ask, 'where is the intensity?'

I'm a pretty tenacious person; I get that from my mom. So sometimes, I use dark humor. I can't take myself too seriously.

Sometimes the autobiographical link in each story is very literal, like I did work at The Texas School for the Blind, and I did once lose a mattress out of the back of a friend's truck.

I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and Internet came along…and then I realise that I have spent more than half of my life in the ‘dark ages’!

Our own grandchildren may demonstrate that-sometimes- Gigantic is Beautiful.

An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .

I sometimes think I was perhaps the only girl in India whose mother said, "Whatever you do, don't get married". For me, when I see a bride, it gives me a rash. I find them ghoulish, almost.

I think my eyes were knocked open and they don't close. I sometimes wish I could close them and look away.

The idea of "human rights," for example - sometimes it bothers me. Not in itself, but because the concept of human rights has replaced the much grander idea of justice.

It is curious how sometimes the memory of death lives on for so much longer than the memory of the life that is purloined.

Sometimes we feel like life is like theater, really.

Sometimes the best way to be useful is to get out of somebody's way.

I think my mom gets weirded out, sometimes, by people knowing so much about me or people always asking questions.

I'm a strong person. I'm also very sassy and a little bit angsty sometimes.

I know I come off like a very outgoing person, and yeah, I'm outgoing, but there's also a part of me that still likes to be in my little shell sometimes.

The failures that we have are sometimes expensive educations.

Anyone who has tried to build something that changes people's lives sometimes finds life to be a distraction, and finds people who don't care as much as they do to be annoying.

I love when people are resilient and when they form ways of dealing with grief or dealing with some traumatic episode, and sometimes those are the wrong choices.

Sometimes you think you want to know something, but it's actually more exciting and more resonant when you have to try [and figure it out].

The definition of what it means to be dying has changed radically. We are able to extend people's lives considerably, including sometimes, good days.

I mean, sometimes I hate interviews because I always feel like I sound stupid.

Sometimes I'm happy when he's gone, but I'm always happy when he returns. -Clare

I sometimes end up in dangerous situations, and I come back to you broken and messed up, and you worry about me when I'm gone. It's like marrying a policeman.

Sometimes when you work in advertising you'll get a product that's really garbage and you have to make it seem fantastic, something that is essential to the continued quality of life.

Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat.

Sometimes I didn't even have enough money to eat. I became so weak from malnourishment that my hair fell out, and I couldn't get out of bed.

It sounds kind of flighty, filmmaker-y, but I believe films are a piece of art. They are meant to be what they're meant to be, and sometimes the artist is informed by the film of what it needs to be.

Sometimes I have the idea right away, like, "Oh, this is what this song's about. This is how I'm feeling."

I’ve sometimes thought that it’s only by recalling that desperate devotion my kids once felt for me that I can maintain my own desperate devotion in the face of their adolescent sneering.

To be honest, I tend to romanticize the past, and though I appreciate all the conveniences of modern life, sometimes I yearn for simpler times.

Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I'd go back next Saturday.

Yeah, well my name is Bai Ling. That means white spirit, and I really feel like sometimes I'm not existing.

Be prepared for negative responses sometimes. It doesn't have anything to do with you. It's just sometimes you're not the right look, or you're not really what they were envisioning.

My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect.

On Easter I do reflect on the fact that as a Christian I am supposed to love, and I have to say that sometimes, when I've listened to less-than-loving expressions by Christians, I get concerned.

Sometimes slow, steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt.

What is portrayed as high-minded positions on issues sometimes is just designed to carve out some of their commercial interests.

People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is.

We should not anticipate that every time countries come together that we are doing some revolutionary thing. Instead of hitting home runs, sometimes we're going to hit singles.

We've seen how militarized gear can sometimes give people a feeling like there's an occupying force, as opposed to a force that's part of the community that's protecting them and serving them.

Sometimes if your only approach is cutting spending at a time when the economy's contracting, then the economy will contract further.

One of the things I've learned about being president is that we'll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in obscurity.

In our democracy and our civic discourse, it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously are sometimes also those who are suspicious of those not like them.

Sometimes they're nothing, sometimes they're something, sometimes there's a connection that years later may show up. All of this information is useful.

Arne Duncan is done more to bring our educational system, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the 21st century than anyone else.