Kind Quotes

#1. It's hot rain and humid days and broken thermostats. It's screaming and raging steam engines and wanting to take your clothes off just to feel a breeze. It's the kind of kiss that makes you realize oxygen is overrated.

Tahereh Mafi

#2. What kind of egoism should one have? It should be such that people accept it.

Dada Bhagwan

#3. Whatever you may have heard, self-publishing is not a short cut to anything. Except maybe insanity. Self-publishing, like every other kind of publishing, is hard work. You don't wake up one morning good at it. You have to work for that.

Zoe Winters

#4. Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.

Thomas Merton

#5. Because I'm a sweet, kind guy, everybody thinks I'm an idiot, I'm weak.

Bikram Choudhury

#6. The one thing that I've learned is that people don't change. Each new generation has the same stuff that the last one did. It's one of those things where jazz kind of works in five-year cycles.

Christian Scott

#7. I love you. I love how you are so sweet and innocent and kind to people, but you are such a vixen in the sack. I love how you look at me. I love your smile. I love everything about you.

Courtney Cole

#8. Arlene was one of a kind, a true friend when I needed one, a grande dame from the old school. She was the sweetest of old ladies, and I will miss her dearly. All of those things are true, but the words I choose are far more profound.
"She smelled like cookies," I whisper through tears.

David Arnold

#9. Ryke shoots me a dirty (the non-sexual kind of dirty) look. "Please tell me that wasn't your high school fucking motto." This is protective Ryke coming forth. (The non-sexual kind of coming.)

Krista Ritchie

#10. My grandmother would shanghai pilots at the Havana airport so they'd bring me cartons of mango baby food
the only kind I'd eat. I learned to eat peach later. And in every carton, she'd slip in a Cuban record.

Gloria Estefan

#11. The clay of White Fang had been molded until he became what he was, morose and lonely, unloving and ferocious, the enemy of all his kind.

Jack London

#12. I was shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of my sister, Joan Fontaine, and my niece, Deborah, and I appreciate the many kind expressions of sympathy that we have received.

Olivia De Havilland

#13. His ideas assumed a kind of stupefied and mechanical quality which is peculiar to despair.

Victor Hugo

#14. When I was little, my mother told me there are basically two kinds of people in the world: town people and circus people. The kind who stay are town people, and the kind who leave are circus people.

Cathy Day

#15. What makes it difficult for people trying to follow a dream is that the whole time you feel like you're slamming your head against the wall. So it's nice to make a breakthrough and not kind of lying there with your head bleeding.

Lewis Black

#16. I breath wrestling. It's in my blood. I have kind of a confidence when I walk ...

Kane

#17. I kind of get a next-gen game machine, but competing for the home entertainment business? We'll see how that goes.

Warren Spector

#18. I met a new girl at a barbecue, very pretty, a blond I think. I don't know, her hair was on fire, and all she talked about was herself. You know these kind of girls: 'I'm hot. I'm on fire. Me, me, me.' You know. 'Help me, put me out.' Come on, could we talk about me just a little bit?

Garry Shandling

#19. I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was the kind of woman, the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful.

Elizabeth Edwards

#20. How would I behave in a situation that caused me to summon the essence of my character? The tragedy inspired me to test myself. I wanted to reveal to myself who I was: the kind of person who died, or the kind of person who overcame circumstances to help himself and others

Aron Ralston

#21. The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men's rights.

Jesse Helms

#22. I kind of embarked on a fruitless search to find information about my character, Frederick Aiken. And it was fruitless, unfortunately, because there's so little about him.

James McAvoy

#23. You can apply yourself voluntarily to reading and learning, but you cannot really apply yourself to thinking: thinking have to be kindled, as a fire is by a draught, and kept going by some kind of interest in its object, which may be an objective interest or merely a subjective one.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#24. The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

Chris Van Allsburg

#25. I used to feel kind of impatient with people who couldn't do things fast or couldn't remember stuff.

Linda Ronstadt

#26. But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight / Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight.

Bruce Cockburn

#27. You're kind of my thing, I immediately blurt out. Smooth, Linden.

Karina Halle

#28. I would not preach tolerance, which seems to me another name for condescension and presupposes faults in those to be tolerated ... Nor do I believe in demanding love - that should be the gift of a free will. But simply to be kind - that is not too much to ask of any of us.

Josephine Lawrence

#29. This was another pretend, and here in a yard on a bench was his real wife, with sad, kind, tired eyes. The lesson of Mimmy and my dad was not for me. It was for her. It was for them. I was so sick with understanding that I was practically yelling at her.

Joshilyn Jackson

#30. I've also got a kind of rule where if I don't write it down and I can still remember it it's worth remembering!

Thighpaulsandra

#31. I've been crazy lucky that I've never had a day job. I get really close to having no money, then I always wind up getting some kind of great job.

Emily Meade

#32. I'm at a strange place I suppose in my life. I think that what happens when you lose a parent, where you lose-you drop into a different kind of serious.

Angelina Jolie

#33. I'm not an Expressionist. I love to look at de Kooning, but I've got this kind of secret life, and that is something that pleases me. I have to try and make something out of it.

Ellsworth Kelly

#34. Whether you're aware of it or not, any kind of collage idea becomes a part of how you see the world once you incorporate media and internet and video games and all these things.

Beck

#35. The empathy and compassion we feel for our own kind is sometimes extended to the rest of the living things on the earth. If we allowed it to keep us from killing a deer, or other animals, we would not live long. The

Jean M. Auel

#36. Everyone has different problems, but everyone has some kind of problem.

Olivia Goldsmith

#37. I don't remember half of the new bands, though - and I think that's kind of where we're going. It's turning into just a big derby of songs. May the best song win.

Beck

#38. 'Star Trek' was a big thing for me. I kind of grew up with that. And 'Twilight Zone' is one of my all-time favorite shows. In fact me and Sam Witwer from 'Being Human' sit down and have marathons to get our little 'Twilight Zone' fix.

Mark Pellegrino

#39. I was a gentleman over everything. An ass-appreciating gentleman. We are the finest kind of man. I should open my own ass-appreciating gentleman's club one day.

Karina Halle

#40. With four people you can create one very strong kind of energy, but if you can get 65 people working together, and swinging together, that's a whole other kind of energy.

Chuck Mangione

#41. I think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It was a much bigger film. Bound was just a smaller film. It was kind of like an old noir film.

Gina Gershon

#42. Mitch Glazer and I went to high school together, and his mother was my English teacher for two years. She was my favorite teacher, and I followed Mitch's career as a journalist, so we've kind of kept in touch over the years.

Mickey Rourke

#43. My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem; how do you approach the problem?

Bill Keller

#44. Nothing is as nice as plugging in your guitar and turning up the volume really loud, just seeing what kind of beautiful noise you can make with it.

Carrie Brownstein

#45. With all the hatred in this world, in this good world, let us be kind to one another,

Walter Breuning

#46. I'm of the opinion that it is always a kind and appropriate decision to get in touch with someone who's lost a loved one to remind them that you're thinking of them and have fond memories of the deceased.

Mallory Ortberg

#47. I am not your God. Or if I am, I'm no God you can seek out for deliverance or explanation. I'm the kind of God who would eat you without compunction if I were hungry.

Ron Currie Jr.

#48. I wish I had never got manic depression. When I was in junior high, I didn't know what was the matter with me. It was as if I'd died or something. Now that I go to a clinic and get the right kind of medicine, I am not as depressed as I used to be.

Daniel Johnston

#49. I can deny myself all I want, but one thing I cannot deny is just how fucking gorgeous this girl is. And exactly the kind of distraction I'm supposed to be staying away from.

Cora Carmack

#50. I would shake your hand, but I'm kind of in the middle of killing stuff at the moment.

K.L. Penington

#51. I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.

Alan Moore

#52. People are beginning to become disturbingly comfortable with a kind of official hypocrisy. Bizarrely, for instance, we've become numb to the idea that rights aren't absolute but are enjoyed on a kind of sliding scale.

Matt Taibbi

#53. You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind.

George Woodcock

#54. And if the audience is in a kind of naughty, raunchy mood, then they're going to make naughty, raunchy suggestions and then we take them and we do the scene anyway, and that's part of the fun.

Brian Henson

#55. This explains the running, at least, but how on earth did it happen? Am I some kind of freak? No wonder my parents didn't want me on a cross-country team; I'd end up on Ripley's Believe It or Not.

Mark Frost

#56. As far as vintage Champagne goes, I loved 1990; it's a great, great vintage. I bought a lot of 1990 Blanc de Blancs Champagne - my favorite kind - and I plan on drinking it all by 2005.

Robert M. Parker Jr.

#57. There have been too many events in my life, and in the lives of my friends, which have defied any kind of scientific explanation. Science does not have appropriate tools for the dissection of the spirit.

Jane Goodall

#58. You know what makes me feel down? The way you keep promising to live some kind of a life, then sacrifice yourself to every waif and stray who comes across your path.

Jojo Moyes

#59. It doesn't matter the kind of music, it doesn't matter whether it's a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don't care if it's outer space or pop, the spirit is the same.

David Lee Roth

#60. It's kind of hard to get deep with Rodgers and Hammerstein. I can't think of a moral in the music - it's just fun.

Jeff Long

#61. This is the kind of room poets are supposed to work in, the kind of room that threatens to break your spirit and forces you into constant battle with yourself.

Paul Auster

#62. I feel like there's a certain kind of laughter missing in the world.

Peter Hedges

#63. Remember that death is the punctuation at the end of the sentence. It's up to us to decide what kind of punctuation it will be - a period or an exclamation point.

Richard Paul Evans

#64. And Quentin had never known how the Maze was redrawn over the summer, but apparently every year in June the groundskeeper goaded the topiary animals into such a feeding frenzy that they fell upon and devoured each other in a kind of ghastly slow-motion vegetarian holocaust.

Lev Grossman

#65. In the process of being a lady from a girl ... I understood that the White Knight, the Prince Charming and the Bad Guy are kind of same. You cant distinguish them by how they look or behave and often the Bad Guy has the better dressing sense.

Upasana Banerjee

#66. Someone told me - maybe it was the ugly one, unafraid to bash his own kind - that spine surgeons are weak among surgeons, that you can't really fix a back so you go in there and fuck around and bill the shit out of the insurance company and refer the patient to pain management.

Merritt Tierce

#67. For me, sitting still is harder than any kind of work.

Annie Oakley

#68. That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you can't see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive.

Haruki Murakami

#69. When I start to write a song, I have the words and I have the melody, and then it's just a matter of making it to the end. I think if I have something that I could identify as a talent, it would be that I can finish a song. I kind of know intuitively where the melody should go.

Lou Barlow

#70. It takes time for change to take place. But then when huge changes are taking place, they are extraordinary. And it requires a kind of philosophical thinking, thinking in terms of epochs.

Grace Lee Boggs

#71. One of the things I tried to do is to kind of talk my actors through the scene, but at the same time let them know how I plan to shoot the film and just give them an insight into the way I'm thinking, so that when they're acting out their scene, they can kind of see it in their minds' eyes.

James Wan

#72. What I'm saying is people like Hoodwink are not kind of evil villains, they're part of humanity. We can choose to disassociate ourselves from them and we can choose to pretend they're not there, but they are. We're all together in this.

Andy Serkis

#73. Directing is a really kind of amazing thing, because you're helping others and, in the middle of that, you have to worry about yourself.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#74. I don't know why I get away with some things. But I'm not a misogynistic, racist person. Yet I do find those jokes funny, so I say them. And I try to say everything kind of in a good spirit.

Daniel Tosh

#75. So," Frank said. "Your name isn't Sammy?"
Leo scowled. "What kind of question is that?"
"Nothing," Frank said quickly. "I just - Nothing.

Rick Riordan

#76. We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.

Christopher Alexander

#77. With 'Sherry,' we were looking for a sound. We wanted to make the kind of mark that, if the radio was playing one of our songs, you knew who it was immediately. But I didn't want to sing like that my whole life.

Frankie Valli

#78. Since I learned the Secret and started applying it to my life, my life has truly become magical, I think the kind of life that everybody dreams of and I live on a day to day basis.

Jack Canfield

#79. I know Spanish pretty well. I'm half-Puerto Rican - my mom is from Puerto Rico - so I have a lot of family there, and my mom's first language is Spanish. But growing up in the States, and with my dad being from the States, I'm kind of just like this white kid.

David Lambert

#80. There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

P. J. O'Rourke

#81. Go to it. Be bold. Be true. Be kind. Rotate your tires. Don't drink so much. There aren't going to be enough liver transplants to go around.

Richard Russo

#82. What was it like out there? Kind of describe it to us, Jessa says, beaming at them and then at me. Trini beams at her and there's a lot of beaming happening.

Melina Marchetta

#83. You really won't know where your home is until you meet your own kind and realize you're both playing the same game.

Shannon L. Alder

#84. ...she doesn't want to become the kind of person who thinks that good news can only come from calls one was already expecting and callers one already knows

Gabrielle Zevin

#85. An evil can only be killed by another kind of evil,
because the pure spirit of peace can not do killing.

Toba Beta

#86. I've no idea if she's ugly or beautiful; it's kind of irrelevant. As long as it's her.

Katarina Mazetti

#87. The goal is not necessarily to succeed but to keep trying, to be the kind of person who has ideas and see them through.

Esme Raji Codell

#88. I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.

Chris Colfer

#89. All religion teaches the virtues of love, altruism and patience, while showing us how to discipline and transform ourselves to achieve inner peace and a kind heart. Therefore, they are worthy of our respect.

Dalai Lama

#90. There is more than one way to be Kluxed, and we need to think about ourselves and the kind of people we elect into public office.

Stetson Kennedy

#91. Friends ... They are kind to each other's hopes. They cherish each other's dreams.

Henry David Thoreau

#92. I think the fact that I look totally artificial, but I am totally real, has its own kind of magic in it.

Dolly Parton

#93. Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look.

A.D. Posey

#94. I don't try to kind of go for the overly sympathetic. I don't really like sympathy; I don't like it for myself. Sometimes sympathy you feel like, you're kind of trying to victimize someone.

Charlize Theron

#95. I don't know why I'm so crazy about cats. I like how they are soft and warm, and individualistic, kind of like me.

Haruki Murakami

#96. I feel like in a lot of ways I've gotten kind of soft as an actor, not doing stage stuff. In terms of being a better actor, it's really important.

Paul Giamatti

#97. It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#98. The song 'Humiliation' is kind of about what if, outside of a dinner party or something, I was blown up by a drone missile, out by the pool. What an embarrassing way to go.

Matt Berninger

#99. You need to have a redesign because familiarity breeds a kind of complacency.

Timothy White

#100. Since I've been on my own, I've been eating a lot of popcorn, cereal, instant noodles, and snack bars. I have a hot plate in my bedroom, a microwave, and a small fridge. That's the kind of kitchen I know how to get around in.

Karen Marie Moning