All Quotes

I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me.
‐‐ Sidney Poitier

I sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses.
‐‐ Donna Murphy

I sometimes like to tinker with poems that have failed, ones that I have sent aside. Even years afterward, I will revisit them if there is something about them that I cannot give up on.
‐‐ John Barton

I sometimes like to watch a good, dark, disturbing movie.
‐‐ Chad Lindberg

I sometimes listen to music I made and find it to be something I wouldn't want to buy from a store, if there was a store. When it's like that, you have to make what you want to hear.
‐‐ Dhani Harrison

I sometimes listen to music to get into some place that I need to get. I don't think it's because I have a musician as a father that I do this - most actors do.
‐‐ Mickey Sumner

I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'
‐‐ Candy Crowley

I sometimes look at my bookshelves today and wonder which volumes my sons will treasure in twenty or thirty years. Which should I be saving for them? Which will fade with time?
‐‐ Rick Riordan

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.
‐‐ Ernst Lubitsch

I sometimes miss the sense of excitement that I remember having when I was younger. I miss that sense of, 'Oh wow.' I think it's part of aging.
‐‐ Elizabeth Strout

I sometimes overeat or drink too much, but I don't eat chocolate, and I gave up smoking when I was 39.
‐‐ Marie Helvin

I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.
‐‐ Johannes Brahms

I sometimes question whether journalists here are being asked to take up roles that are not ours. I get calls from people complaining that their telephone is out of order or that electricity is cut, and I sometimes wonder why don't they call the telephone or electric company.
‐‐ Pepe Eliaschev

I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?'
‐‐ Jennifer Weiner

I sometimes read books on my iPad.
‐‐ David Sedaris

I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
‐‐ Candace Bushnell

I sometimes read on the subway, but I'm a hopeless eavesdropper and get easily distracted by strangers' conversations.
‐‐ J. Courtney Sullivan

I sometimes say I am a 'happiness optimist' but a 'revenue pessimist.'
‐‐ Tyler Cowen

I sometimes say that I don't make anything up - obviously that's not true. But I am uninterested in writers who say that everything comes out of the imagination. I would rather be in a room with someone who is telling the story of his life, which may be exaggerated and even have lies in it, but I want to hear the true story, essentially.
‐‐ James Salter

I sometimes see People On The Internet decrying work-in-progress tweets and posts as worthless. 'Measuring output by quantity rather than quality is dangerous,' they say. 'More work doesn't mean better work!'
‐‐ Antony Johnston

I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I think, 'You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket.'
‐‐ Jude Law

I sometimes skip meals when I travel.
‐‐ Amy Smart

I sometimes start keeping a journal about the writing process itself. Particularly when I get the ideas, and I am trying to brood over the chaos phase. In writing a novel, you really have to brood over a lot of chaos of ideas and possibilities.
‐‐ Sue Monk Kidd

I sometimes struggle, because my job is like the antithesis of what surfing is all about. Surfing's simple. It's real.
‐‐ Paul Walker

I sometimes suffer from insomnia. And when I can't fall asleep, I play what I call the alphabet game.
‐‐ Roz Chast

I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.
‐‐ Robert Staughton Lynd

I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.
‐‐ Howard Nemerov

I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.
‐‐ Julia Ward Howe

I sometimes think how strange it is that I've got to do exactly what I want, and that is difficult to cope with. You have to remind yourself every few weeks: I'm making this film and this is exactly what I want to do. And suddenly you're happy again.
‐‐ Christopher Nolan

I sometimes think I cannot write another passage about a disappointing meal ever again, because I've done it so many times.
‐‐ Bill Bryson

I sometimes think I might be autistic because I like to know - I need to know - my beginnings and my ends. I don't have to be in control of it, but I need to know what's going on.
‐‐ Clay Aiken

I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?
‐‐ Bette Midler

I sometimes think I've needed a bit of an arm around me in my career - which I've not always got from certain managers and coaches who didn't understand me.
‐‐ Robbie Fowler

I sometimes think I was always left-wing. I know that sounds completely crazy, but I do know that I asked questions when I was about four, and I remember noticing that I wasn't getting an answer, and I remember it annoying me.
‐‐ Tilda Swinton

I sometimes think I was born to live up to my name. How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this.
‐‐ Madonna Ciccone

I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.
‐‐ Eddie Marsan

I sometimes think it ironic for an ex-seaman, longshoreman, truck driver, policeman, bus driver, etc... to find success writing children's novels.
‐‐ Brian Jacques

I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

I sometimes think it's better to go with a bad movie that is true to a certain point of view than to take something and make people try to like it when they're not supposed to.
‐‐ Amy Heckerling

I sometimes think it's like a weird elastic band. The more tragic your work is, the quicker you snap back. There's a catharsis in telling a miserable old tale; you get rid of demons.
‐‐ Anne-Marie Duff

I sometimes think love is God's way of hoodwinking people into having kids. You fall in love, and all that passion goes into procreating and wanting children.
‐‐ Matt Dillon

I sometimes think my earnestness is confused for stupidity, but it shouldn't be.
‐‐ Jenny Slate

I sometimes think of not doing Twitter or Facebook anymore, but that's how people find their favorite bands and comedians.
‐‐ Mike Birbiglia

I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.
‐‐ Victoria Wood

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
‐‐ Oscar Wilde

I sometimes think that I didn't leave the Republican Party, as much as it left me.
‐‐ Hillary Clinton

I sometimes think that I might be slightly autistic. There might be a syndrome that hasn't been named. I don't seem to see the world in the same way that most people I know see it. They don't seem to be baffled by it.
‐‐ John Banville

I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
‐‐ Edward Fitzgerald

I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real life.
‐‐ Claire Tomalin

I sometimes think that so much of our life takes place inside our heads - in memory or imagination or interpretation or speculation - that if I really want to change my life, I might best begin by changing my mind.
‐‐ Pico Iyer