All Quotes

Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines we're creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.
‐‐ Ray Kurzweil

Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
‐‐ Victoria Legrand

Sometimes people think I'm sort of a Machiavelli who is thinking, 'How can I disarm people? I know: I'll create a persona; I'll get some spectacles, and when I meet you, I'll say, 'How are you doing?' And I will be very unassuming and polite and never get angry.'
‐‐ Louis Theroux

Sometimes people think I'm wearing a wig when I'm not wearing a wig, and then sometimes they think I'm not wearing a wig when I am wearing a wig.
‐‐ Nicolas Cage

Sometimes people think it's what you say when you're in a huge group that makes you a leader. But sometimes it's the one-on-one conversations you have with guys individually, just getting to know them. I think I've done that a lot. Not intentionally - it just happens.
‐‐ Robert Griffin III

Sometimes people think that if you're always helping people up and never hit someone with a hard foul, you're automatically a good sport. I don't believe that.
‐‐ Sue Wicks

Sometimes people think they know you and they go, 'Hey!' and then they realize that they've just seen you on the television. That's kind of funny sometimes.
‐‐ Maisie Williams

Sometimes people think Y Combinator has big ideas about themes. But really, we just fund the best startups.
‐‐ Sam Altman

Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I'm in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour.
‐‐ Matt Groening

Sometimes people walk into plays by accident - they don't even know what they're looking at; they just think to give it a chance. That can be the beginning of a long friendship.
‐‐ Dylan Baker

Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
‐‐ Gary Ackerman

Sometimes people who get wealthy when they are very, very young, it's a curse to them. They don't realize it.
‐‐ Kato Kaelin

Sometimes people who sell books are seen as corporate salesmen, and people who sell reading are seen as literacy advocates, but you can't really separate the two.
‐‐ Margaret Stohl

Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective. Most of the elite suffer from psychogenic amnesia. That means it's not organic amnesia, such as damage caused by brain injury. It's just a matter of psychology.
‐‐ Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an autograph for her?' And some people send me stuff. I don't mind it at all: as a sportswoman, you owe them because they support you.
‐‐ Zara Phillips

Sometimes, people will just never love dogs.
‐‐ Jenna Morasca

Sometimes people with strong ideology, whether left-wing or right-wing, refuse to do something simply because they believe it is wrong, when doing it actually benefits them. For some people, it's not just about money and political power.
‐‐ Ha-Joon Chang

Sometimes people wonder why aeroplanes are so cheap and rockets are so expensive. Even the most superficial comparison shows one obvious difference: aeroplane engines use outside air to burn their fuel, while rockets have to carry their own oxidisers along.
‐‐ Henry Spencer

Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
‐‐ Kanye West

Sometimes perception is almost more important than the skill level of an actor.
‐‐ Shia LaBeouf

Sometimes pessimism or optimism gets popular, and it's contagious.
‐‐ Edward C. Prescott

Sometimes photographing people is like pulling teeth, trying to get some sort of personality.
‐‐ Sam Taylor-Johnson

Sometimes poetry is inspired by the conversation entered into by reading other poems.
‐‐ John Barton

Sometimes poetry, it is incomprehensible. But we need incomprehensible stuff! It is very healthy to talk about incomprehensible things! It is very healthy! We need it!
‐‐ Roberto Benigni

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.
‐‐ Tony Snow

Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.
‐‐ Tammy Faye Bakker

Sometimes 'Portlandia' can be pretty traditional. But the stuff I've always loved on 'SNL' has always been the weirdest stuff I've done. The stuff that went on at 10 to 1 in the morning.
‐‐ Fred Armisen

Sometimes poverty is the greatest gift you can ever be given. Sometimes loss is the key that leads you to gain.
‐‐ Suze Orman

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing.
‐‐ Bryant H. McGill

Sometimes pressure can be good, and it gives you a lot of energy to do something.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld

Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in.
‐‐ Josh Homme

Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.
‐‐ Harsha Bhogle

Sometimes random things that you wouldn't think mean anything mean so much to them. With kids, you can say, 'Let's go pick some flowers' or 'There's a snail. Let's investigate that.'
‐‐ Heidi Klum

Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book, but it's not something that somebody who has never read a book before should be given as an example of why you'll really love to read, necessarily.
‐‐ Gabrielle Zevin

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.
‐‐ Alice Walker

Sometimes, reading my own media, the negativity can upset me, but I just deal with things on a positive basis. I mean, I have up to 20,000 people singing my words back to me on a nightly basis - they share my hopes and fears, and they relate to my own life experiences. Life can be pretty isolating, but that connection is always amazing.
‐‐ James Blunt

Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things others do.
‐‐ Matthew Tobin Anderson

Sometimes reading scripts is terrible.
‐‐ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Sometimes reality T.V. can be stressful.
‐‐ Carnie Wilson

Sometimes, rehearsals are not worth it if you do not have an accurate cast, and that is one of the most difficult parts about a film.
‐‐ Javier Camara

Sometimes Republicans engage in number-crunching analysis that doesn't always take the neediest into account.
‐‐ Susana Martinez

Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.
‐‐ Artur Davis

Sometimes, scenes are great without any music at all.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

Sometimes shooting on a smaller scale, as long as things don't blow out of proportion, is very liberating.
‐‐ Daniel Craig

Sometimes shows get into their 5th and 6th season and you're like, where can you go? But 'Dexter' is still so strong, it's really refreshing.
‐‐ Brea Grant

Sometimes shutting off the sound on the television can allow you to actually watch the game and take it in in an entirely different and more direct way - a first-order, first-person experience - rather than filtered through the mind of another.
‐‐ Jon Kabat-Zinn

Sometimes siblings can get in each other's space.
‐‐ Gisele Bundchen

Sometimes, so much of the difficulty is the question of 'What am I going to write about?' because the world is so vast.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
‐‐ Jack Vance

Sometimes someone feels like nothing goes their way, and then something really good happens. For me, hearing that I made someone happy makes me feel so alive!
‐‐ Gilles Marini