All Quotes

Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control.
‐‐ Robert Smithson

Some artists see a gig as an audience worshipping them. I think it is about having a great time together. I have a part as the singer. An audience has a part. Playing a gig doesn't make me high on myself.
‐‐ Jo Nesbo

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.
‐‐ James Broughton

Some artists want a producer to be a kind of svengali - someone who actually creates a sound for them.
‐‐ Jerry Harrison

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.
‐‐ Maya Lin

Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's great, but George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, they didn't write everything they recorded, and they've had major, major careers. I think it's all about the best song.
‐‐ Jake Owen

Some asteroids have us in their sights. Be nice to sort of go near them and find out what they're made of, possibly tag their ears so they're always broadcasting to us their location. In case one of their trajectories head straight for us, we'll know well in advance to do something about it.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

Some astronauts describe the routine flushing of urine into space, where the freezing temperatures turn the droplets into a cloud of bright, drifting crystals, as being among the most amazing sights they saw on an entire voyage.
‐‐ Eugene Cernan

Some astronauts sleep in sort of beds - compartments that you can open up and crawl into and then close up, almost like a little bedroom.
‐‐ Sally Ride

Some athletes feel they have to show they're confident and talk about what they're going to achieve. I don't think there's anything wrong with just quietly believing in yourself and just getting on with it. You don't have to talk about it all the time; you want your performances to show for it.
‐‐ Jessica Ennis-Hill

Some authors are quite happy - and have the time - to do it all themselves, which is great.
‐‐ Allan Guthrie

Some authors have a very hard time understanding that in order to be faithful to the spirit of the book, it's almost always impossible to remain faithful to the text. You have to make changes.
‐‐ Richard Russo

Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with a hook, a situation, a 'what if.'
‐‐ Linwood Barclay

Some autistic children cannot stand the sound of certain voices. I have come across cases where teachers tell me that certain children have problems with their voice or another person's voice. This problem tends to be related to high-pitched ladies' voices.
‐‐ Temple Grandin

Some bands blow it before they even play. The most important moment of any show is when a band walks out with the red amp lights glowing, the flashlight that shows each performer the way to his spot on the stage. It's crucial not to blow it. It sets the tempo of the show; it affects everyone's perception of the band.
‐‐ Johnny Ramone

Some bands today have the experience of really working together and honing their craft. And other bands are very much like, 'I just got a guitar for Christmas, let's start a band.' And you can hear the difference.
‐‐ Robbie Robertson

Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.
‐‐ Edd Roush

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
‐‐ Alan Watts

Some believe that the FBI has these phenomenal capabilities to access any information at any time - that we can get what we want, when we want it, by flipping some sort of switch. It may be true in the movies or on TV. It is simply not the case in real life.
‐‐ James Comey

Some big actresses told me a few things that inspired me. One said that the biggest challenge for a female actress was to make sure they are not profoundly bored. Another told me to just do whatever you want - do anything.
‐‐ Elizabeth Banks

Some big banks remain wary of venture capital.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

Some billionaires like cars, yachts and private jets. Others like newspapers.
‐‐ Andrew Ross Sorkin

Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

Some bloke came up to me in Tesco a couple of years ago at 11:30 pm and said: 'Excuse me, would you mind telling my son here that you're Uncle Vernon?' I said: 'Get a grip. It's 11:30 at night - what's he doing out of bed? I'm not here to entertain people at this time of night.
‐‐ Richard Griffiths

Some books are a revelation. They come along at just the right time for just the right reasons. They become heart books and soul books.
‐‐ Judith Tarr

Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation.
‐‐ Edward M. Lerner

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record straight. Australia will be my 100th start, and I aim to mark the milestone with a cracking performance. It could even be celebrated with a victory.
‐‐ Damon Hill

Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
‐‐ Hari Kunzru

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some books that I've read on the Kindle, I've been like, 'I want that on my shelf.' Because it says, 'I'm the kind of person who has read this.' The kind of books that says, 'I'm serious and intellectual and historical and race-conscious.'
‐‐ Jennifer Lee

Some bosses believe they can't afford to employ someone legitimately - so they employ them illegally.
‐‐ Ross Kemp

Some boys accepted me, some didn't. And my family had comments made to them. Brazil is still a very macho society, and sports are mainly for boys, so people would say to them: 'What is this girl doing? Why is she always out there in the soccer games with the boys?'
‐‐ Marta

Some brains are easy to hack into, and other brains are nearly impossible to hack into because they are so complex.
‐‐ Keith Barry

Some breakfast cereals only come into their own as children's party treats: what are cornflakes and Coco Pops for, if not to clump together with melted chocolate and spoon into a cupcake holder?
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.
‐‐ Matthew Macfadyen

Some broad themes brought me where I am today. At a very young age, my hobby became thinking and finding connections.
‐‐ Dean Kamen

Some, but much of my money is tied up in Playboy stock.
‐‐ Christie Hefner

Some BuzzFeed articles are written by smart people who use complete sentences. Some of the disposable lists are witty and appear to have taken some effort to put together.
‐‐ Alex Pareene

Some call-in moderators are neutral and courteous. Then there's Rush Limbaugh, who is funny and pompous and a scapegoater and hatemonger. His popularity could cause you to draw some terrible conclusions about the state of mind of the American people. It helps to remember that Bill Cosby is popular, too.
‐‐ Donella Meadows

Some cameras are heavier and need to be on tripods. Others are small enough to hide in your pocket. There are places where you don't want to feel like you are disturbing anything, so I may use a camera like that.
‐‐ Jonas Mekas

Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
‐‐ Patricia Ireland

Some cancers are curable, while others are highly incurable. The spectrum is enormous. Metastatic pancreatic cancer is a highly incurable disease, whereas some leukemia forms are very curable. There is a big difference between one form and another.
‐‐ Siddhartha Mukherjee

Some candidates can sit in an office for 10 hours a day asking for money. That's just not who I am.
‐‐ Paul Sadler

Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.
‐‐ John Podhoretz

Some caregivers want to reciprocate the care they themselves received as children.
‐‐ Ariel Gore

Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many years.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Some cats, Iggy Pop, they're going to always have that hunger.
‐‐ Nikki Sixx

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde