All Quotes

Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
‐‐ Don Marquis

Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.
‐‐ Thomas Secker

Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.
‐‐ Billy Sunday

Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
‐‐ Lafcadio Hearn

Some persons never attain to the happy art of perspicuous expression, and it is equally true that some persons, thro' a mental defect of their own, will judge the most correct and certain language of others to be indefinite and ambiguous.
‐‐ Oliver Ellsworth

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
‐‐ Margaret Halsey

Some persons think that they have to look like a hedgehog to be pious.
‐‐ Billy Sunday

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.
‐‐ Ansel Adams

Some photographers work on the same image for hours and hours and then use the first picture that they took.
‐‐ Alice Dellal

Some players are criticised for having no loyalty. Well, I wanted to go back home and play for the club I supported. I don't think that's a crime.
‐‐ Alan Shearer

Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
‐‐ Oscar Robertson

Some players get over-dependable on their coaches.
‐‐ Ion Tiriac

Some players like to change clubs around the green to hit high or low shots. I play all of my short-game shots with my 54-degree sand wedge and change my ball position to hit it higher or lower. I think it's easier to learn one club than four.
‐‐ Ernie Els

Some players tell me that since retiring they've had the urge to go somewhere every three days. To satisfy that urge, they may even jump in the car and drive around the block.
‐‐ Lou Brock

Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.
‐‐ Pete Rose

Some political spouses are much more comfortable on the campaign trail than others, and they take to it a lot more naturally.
‐‐ Monica Crowley

Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it, to wave it in the air, this is what we saw from a lot of republicans during the Clinton Administration, and we are seeing the same from Democrats under Bush.
‐‐ James Bovard

Some politicians that I've seen have been brilliant with the public. They almost speak with the skill of an actor.
‐‐ Kevin Spacey

Some prescient American collectors, including Vicki and Kent Logan and Mera and Donald Rubell, began collecting Chinese art before 2000 with a genuine passion, but as the auction prices exploded everyone was beating a path to the galleries and artist studios in China. It became the 'China thing.'
‐‐ Arne Glimcher

Some presidents, such as Bill Clinton and John F. Kennedy, are political sailors - they tack with the wind, reaching difficult policy objectives through bipartisan maneuvering and pulse-taking.
‐‐ Douglas Brinkley

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
‐‐ Lois McMaster Bujold

Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are that their wages are more than someone else's. Their reward is being a cut above the rest. This is the enmity of pride.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
‐‐ Laurence J. Peter

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
‐‐ Alan Perlis

Some programs - especially games - require that your system be set to a particular color depth and resolution. Often such special settings are different from your usual mode, though.
‐‐ Charles Petzold

Some projects go as you hope or imagine, and some change or reveal themselves in a different way; it depends.
‐‐ Paul Dano

Some psychiatrist told me I was interested in sculpture because I dealt in flat surfaces and needed something with dimension.
‐‐ David L. Wolper

Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't been my experience.
‐‐ Jeffrey Eugenides

Some pundits have proposed that the aliens have come here to breed with us. Apparently, too much bike riding or something similar has rendered them incapable of reproducing within their own species. But do extraterrestrial infants toddle through your neighborhood?
‐‐ Seth Shostak

Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible.
‐‐ Javier Bardem

Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.
‐‐ John Barton

Some readers may be disturbed that I wrote 'The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson' in Emily's own voice. I wasn't trying to steal her thunder or her music. I simply wanted to imagine my way into the head and heart of Emily Dickinson.
‐‐ Jerome Charyn

Some readers sort of suspect that you have another book that you didn't publish that has even more information in it. I think that readers sort of want to be taught something. They have this idea that there's a takeaway from a novel rather than just the being there, which I think is the great, great pleasure of reading.
‐‐ Alice McDermott

Some readers tell me, 'We always treated our maid like she was a member of the family.' You know, that's interesting, but I wonder what your maid's perspective was on that.
‐‐ Kathryn Stockett

Some readers took 'Heaven's My Destination' as a satire on Christianity and the Midwest, but today it reads like a loving comedy.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb

Some really good things kind of swing both ways and I like to see people that can swing really, really, really sad and horrible and terrible and really, really, really beautiful and funny.
‐‐ Beth Henley

Some receivers are like sports cars: they have a lot of speed and flair. Me, I'm like an old pickup truck. I just bounce around and try to get the job done.
‐‐ Steve Largent

Some records are going to be bigger than others. You're always going to be compared to your biggest record.
‐‐ Howie Dorough

Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.
‐‐ Don Henley

Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.
‐‐ Ian Mckellen

Some religious guys in sports give the impression, 'I've got something you don't have.'
‐‐ George Vecsey

Some religious practitioners make absolutist claims for their beliefs: I've no interest in doing this, nor do I have any interest in converting people, which is doubtless a relief to anyone who has feared finding me on their doorstep asking if they'd like to know more about Odin.
‐‐ Liz Williams

Some remedies are worse than the disease.
‐‐ Publilius Syrus

Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
‐‐ Larry Kramer

Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong.
‐‐ Ken Mehlman

Some rescue groups are highly organized, experienced, well-funded, nearly professional. Others are small amateur operations run out of garages and back yards. Their members may identify strongly with animals as victims, sometimes because of traumas and disappointments in their own lives. Others simply love animals and want to help them.
‐‐ Jon Katz

Some researchers sensibly suggest that rather than worrying too much about which programs our children are watching, we should concentrate on trying to reduce the total amount of time they spend in front of the screen.
‐‐ Hugh Mackay

Some residents, I suspect, may be politically motivated in suggesting that having two members of Congress lessens Montclair's clout. Quite to the contrary. I think it increases Montclair's visibility - as a matter of fact, Essex County's visibility.
‐‐ Rodney Frelinghuysen

Some respected and beloved brethren insist that the forming and organising of churches is, according to God's will, the only means of finding blessing in the midst of that confusion which is acknowledged to exist.
‐‐ John Nelson Darby

Some reviewers call my stories dark - and yes, there is violence and angst, and the stakes are high - but I like to think that the endings are satisfying and hopeful.
‐‐ Carol Berg