All Quotes

Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.
‐‐ Pat Oliphant

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.
‐‐ Ogden Nash

Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.
‐‐ James Beattie

Some deeper part of me wants to write comical dialogue; I'd be foolish to not follow that impulse. Now I recognize that if there's energy to a section of work, you go where the energy is. It's a living thing, and you just follow it.
‐‐ Patrick deWitt

Some defeats are only installments to victory.
‐‐ Jacob Riis

Some Democrats deserve to be criticized.
‐‐ James Hansen

Some designers retain a sense of humour about what they do, but others are deathly serious and have no life outside of it; they're lying awake night after night constructing dresses in their heads.
‐‐ Helena Christensen

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

Some digital natives are extraordinarily savvy.
‐‐ Howard Rheingold

Some directors are really strong on action, manhandling you around the set; others are very focused on setting up the camera shots and practically ignore you. You have to get used to introverts, extroverts, directors who clown around for the crew, and the odd one who's monosyllabic.
‐‐ Gina Bellman

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.
‐‐ Samantha Morton

Some directors don't get involved in the cinematography and are just about story, but I'm definitely more tactile than that in terms of my involvement in the minutiae.
‐‐ Cary Fukunaga

Some directors don't say much. Michael Mann, for example. I remember on 'The Insider' he never had much to say. He would do a scene, just kind of nod, and then set it up to do it again. And you might do a scene 10 or 12 times or more, the same little 31-second bit. And you could tell he wasn't satisfied, but he wouldn't say much.
‐‐ Philip Baker Hall

Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.
‐‐ John Malkovich

Some directors hardly talk to the actors at all.
‐‐ Todd Solondz

Some directors have just one way of working; you either have to adhere to it or you don't.
‐‐ Bradley Cooper

Some directors I worked with didn't even know how to read a blueprint, understand a plan.
‐‐ Catherine Hardwicke

Some directors want to make superhero films. That's what gets them off, and they love it, and they love sci-fi. I prefer putting my hands into non-fiction.
‐‐ Peter Berg

Some directors were brilliant in the silent era but never felt at home in sound. It's like a sculptor being forced to take up painting.
‐‐ Kevin Brownlow

Some disaster movies look like you're watching someone else play video games. They're fun but it's not real.
‐‐ Eli Roth

Some distant day, anthropologists will consider as a landmark in humankind's evolution - comparable to the capacity for destroying ourselves by nuclear obliteration - the adolescent gene's newly emergent power to dictate nightly TV viewing.
‐‐ Steve Erickson

Some documentaries are made by people who are driven more by one particular story, or have different backgrounds or ambitions, but I'm always looking for projects that let me be the best filmmaker I can be, and to be stretched and grow further.
‐‐ Lucy Walker

Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid.
‐‐ Rodney Dangerfield

Some doomsayers think the collapse will be triggered by runaway government spending, excessive taxation, oppressive regulation, food shortages, fuel shortages or natural disasters such as deadly pandemics or lethal changes in the world's climate.
‐‐ Robert Higgs

Some dreamers demand that scientists only discover things that can be used for good. That is impossible. Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things.
‐‐ John Polanyi

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.
‐‐ Herman Melville

Some eco groups suggest that as many as 73 million sharks are killed globally every year. Hammerheads, blue sharks, mako sharks - they're disappearing, and they ain't coming back.
‐‐ Stephen Rodrick

Some economists believe that the Greeks' work ethic and thrift can pull them through. But the classical virtues can do nothing to offset the dearth of innovation that plagues the economy.
‐‐ Edmund Phelps

Some economists estimate that for every family that goes bankrupt, there are about 15 more who are in the same amount of financial trouble and would profit from bankruptcy but just haven't filed.
‐‐ Elizabeth Warren

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
‐‐ T. S. Eliot

Some employees are protected by union or personal contracts that limit reasons for dismissal.
‐‐ Bill Dedman

Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.
‐‐ Louis C. K.

Some entrepreneurs talk of a high burn rate, high advertising rate, and so on, with no outcome, so it doesn't impress me. But an entrepreneur who has that kind of a feeling of responsibility towards his investors is somebody who will have all my support.
‐‐ Ratan Tata

Some environmentalists have had the feeling that Indians are not good stewards. I've always been critical of that.
‐‐ Stewart Udall

Some estimate Hulu IPO could bring in $2 billion. What will the content providers get? Zero. What is Hulu without content? An empty jukebox.
‐‐ Steven Levitan

Some even claim that I'm a terror, a dictator and they're right.
‐‐ Lou Reed

Some exfoliates have rocks in them and it makes your skin really smooth, and cat litter is a good substitute. I haven't broke out at all yet!
‐‐ Nicole Polizzi

Some experts believe that somebody is deceiving WikiLeaks, that its reputation is being undermined in order for it to be used for political purposes.
‐‐ Vladimir Putin

Some experts look at global warming, increased world temperature, as the critical tipping point that is causing a crash in coral reef health around the world. And there's no question that it is a factor, but it's preceded by the loss of resilience and degradation.
‐‐ Sylvia Earle

Some experts say we are moving back to the pre-antibiotic era. No. This will be a post-antibiotic era. In terms of new replacement antibiotics, the pipeline is virtually dry. A post-antibiotic era means, in effect, an end to modern medicine as we know it. Things as common as strep throat or a child's scratched knee could once again kill.
‐‐ Margaret Chan

Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.
‐‐ Cat Stevens

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.
‐‐ Arthur Conan Doyle

Some fans have a mistaken opinion of the average umpire. He is human, all reports to the contrary. Every fellow who is successful is conscientious to almost a fault.
‐‐ Billy Evans

Some fatherlands are difficult. Germany is one of them. But it is our fatherland. Here is where we live and work.
‐‐ Gustav Heinemann

Some feel as though the world is their oyster; others feel as though they were the oyster itself, plucked from the ocean, cracked open, and robbed of all that is precious to them.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.
‐‐ Patricia Highsmith

Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid.
‐‐ Kin Hubbard

Some felt as if 'Charlie Hebdo' was obsessed with its 'Screw Allah' stance. It's a sort of provocation that caused a lot of debates.
‐‐ Patrick Chappatte

Some feminists have this party-line attitude, and they can be very extremist. The most enlightened characters in my film are women.
‐‐ Lina Wertmuller