All Quotes

Sometimes, a novel is like a train: the first chapter is a comfortable seat in an attractive carriage, and the narrative speeds up. But there are other sorts of trains, and other sorts of novels. They rush by in the dark; passengers framed in the lighted windows are smiling and enjoying themselves.
‐‐ Jane Smiley

Sometimes a person has to be dead a while before people can appreciate what they did when they were alive.
‐‐ Curtis Armstrong

Sometimes a person has to go a very long distance out of his way to come back a short distance correctly.
‐‐ Edward Albee

Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.
‐‐ Alejandro Amenabar

Sometimes a producer and an artist get together and they make magic like Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson. As far as my own music career - you could liken my chemistry with Timbaland to Marty Scorsese and Robert De Niro.
‐‐ Justin Timberlake

Sometimes a psychic tells you something and it feels wrong and others may be right on the money. It's your choice about whom to trust, and giving that trust is something we do ourselves.
‐‐ Martha Beck

Sometimes, a remix is good because it reaches a whole new generation. But when it gets too much, it's irritating. Also, the original composer needs to be credited properly.
‐‐ A. R. Rahman

Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.
‐‐ Tara Strong

Sometimes a scene may be about one thing, and it may end up still being about that, but the emotionality of it comes from somewhere else, or the humor of it comes from somewhere else, and it gives it that real-life quality.
‐‐ Kyle Chandler

Sometimes a scene works and acting is the easiest thing in the world and you don't have to do much of anything - just enjoy yourself and listen to the other actor. When it doesn't work, then every actor has different ways of dealing with the impasse. Sometimes you use memories from the past. Whatever. It depends from job to job.
‐‐ Viggo Mortensen

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
‐‐ Manfred Eigen

Sometimes a script comes along that really makes you sit up and pay attention... 'Life at These Speeds' has an emotional intensity that really kicked me in the guts.
‐‐ Douglas Booth

Sometimes a serendipitous reaction occurs when a network asks you if you have any ideas for a series, at a time when your creative flow is working in that direction.
‐‐ Joe Murray

Sometimes a song indicates that it wants to be about a certain thing. And then if you write it, you find that it is about something that you've done.
‐‐ Jesse Harris

Sometimes a song that didn't make one record will stay in my head for so long and just won't go away. I take that as a hint to keep 'em close and not forget about them.
‐‐ Shelby Lynne

Sometimes a sound gets overused. There is such a thing as a good saxophone, but it's like those fields in agriculture - they need to rest for a year or so. You need time to burn all the saxophones and start from scratch.
‐‐ Thomas Mars

Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.
‐‐ Daniel H. Wilson

Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.
‐‐ Omar Dorsey

Sometimes a week might go by when I don't think about that game, but I don't remember when it happened last.
‐‐ Don Larsen

Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

Sometimes a woman's looks or sensuality are too readily wrapped up in their power.
‐‐ Natalie Dormer

Sometimes, a writer 'character' is just a projection of a person who is writing the story, but not necessarily 'me.'
‐‐ Paul Park

Sometimes a writer just needs a hook.
‐‐ John Rhys-Davies

Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.
‐‐ Jenna Fischer

Sometimes adults seem as though they have cut a chord from being a child.
‐‐ Roddy Doyle

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my characters on real people. Emphatically, no. And sort of, yes.
‐‐ Brent Weeks

Sometimes airport security people recognize me. I'll go through the whole screening process and at the end they'll go, 'Hey, man, I really like your work.' That's so cool.
‐‐ Reggie Watts

Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs.
‐‐ Joy Page

Sometimes, all the interviews, those are the toughest thing for me, but once you really start to do it a lot and start to get used to it, I can find some fun in those parts, too. Because playing golf is the easiest thing for me, and that's something I'm so used to; that's why it was always easy.
‐‐ Inbee Park

Sometimes all the 'marketing' insight in the world can't move a client, but the creation of a truly great brand name can become a billion-dollar idea!
‐‐ George Lois

Sometimes all you need is a big leap of faith.
‐‐ Sean Bean

Sometimes all you need is just for somebody to believe in you in order to be able to accomplish maybe what you never thought you could.
‐‐ Drew Brees

Sometimes altering your position is the right thing. Sometimes it's not.
‐‐ LL Cool J

Sometimes America gets tempted by the glitz and glamour.
‐‐ Martin Henderson

Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
‐‐ Sam Childers

Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.
‐‐ Lee Westwood

Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.
‐‐ James Baker

Sometimes an actor will stumble on the joke, and I'm right on them. Back it up before the audience hears the bad version of the joke, because humor is 90% surprise. If they know what's coming, they won't laugh as hard.
‐‐ James Burrows

Sometimes, an afternoon spent in bed with someone can be the most important thing in the universe.
‐‐ Malcolm Wilson

Sometimes an ethnographic inquiry will lead to new ways to use an existing technology or will generate new technologies.
‐‐ Katie Hafner

Sometimes, an inability to believe in Satan reflects a larger inability to believe in a spiritual plane at all.
‐‐ John Ortberg

Sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say, 'You're bright!' They're actually surprised I might be bright.
‐‐ Kirk Douglas

Sometimes an opponent stops breathing, and you realise something drastic has happened and they are trying not to let on. Or they go quiet, or they get fidgety. After a while you pick these things up and become more alert to them.
‐‐ Viswanathan Anand

Sometimes, and I hate to say it, you do feel things are asked for in the most ludicrously unrealistic fashion. The time you are expected to make things in, and the money you are expected to make them for - that is the death of creativity. Just because some things can be made very cheaply does not mean everything can be.
‐‐ Darren Boyd

Sometimes Aristotle analyses his terms, but very often he takes them for granted; and in the latter case, I think, he is sometimes deceived by them.
‐‐ Gilbert Murray

Sometimes art imitates life.
‐‐ Michael Douglas

Sometimes art is ahead of revolution.
‐‐ Ziad Doueiri

Sometimes, as a comedian, a line will come to you, that is so beautiful, so perfect, that you think: I did not create this line. This line belongs to all of us. Surely this is a line of God.
‐‐ Russell Brand