Kinds Quotes

#1. There are kinds of action, for good or ill, that lie so far outside the boundaries of normal behavior that they force us, in acknowledging that they have occurred, to restructure our own understanding of reality. We have to make room for them.

Guy Gavriel Kay

#2. We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they chalk up. We have allowed quantitative standards, so central to the adult economic system, to become the principal yardstick for our definition of our children's worth.

Kenneth Keniston

#3. There are times when I love to play all kinds of complicated games in painting. But this is one case when I need to be fairly straightforward. I'll just try to paint the man, his intelligence, his amiability and his stature, maybe paint him fairly close to humor and try to get it just right.

Nelson Shanks

#4. Overloading the HPA axis, especially in infancy and childhood, produces all kinds of serious and long-lasting negative effects - physical, psychological, and neurological.

Paul Tough

#5. Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.

Arthur Hertzberg

#6. They think there are only two kinds of young women in China: good girls or prostitutes.

Xiaolu Guo

#7. The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it's a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff.

Robert Crumb

#8. I believe that we are going to have a much deeper appreciation of what kinds of abnormalities in cancer cells and in the surrounding cells that feed and respond to cancers are vulnerabilities that will allow us to make better predictions of which kinds of drugs will work to treat these cancers.

Harold E. Varmus

#9. How many different kinds of ruin do you have to see before you resign yourself to calling it all "ruin"?

Veronica Roth

#10. There are two kinds of love. One kind you live with, the other you write poetry about.

Debasish Mridha

#11. Notebooks allow for all kinds of record-keeping, and I kept one myself as a kid. I was attracted to mixing up words and pictures freely, since that's how I think.

Marissa Moss

#12. I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to stay right here and cause all kinds of trouble.

Suzanne Collins

#13. There are 2 kinds of people in the world- those who walk into a room and say "There you are" and those who say, "Here I am!

Abigail Van Buren

#14. I do remember the moment when, as a child, I realized that the things we call 'TV shows' are really just the stuff that gets put between commercials. Later, I came to see that the kinds of things that get on 'free' TV are shows that help sell products.

Douglas Rushkoff

#15. I love all kinds of movies. I'd especially like to make some, you know, violent crime drama.

Rob Zombie

#16. Even the kinds of ingredients you can find in your own kitchen can be used to make bombs. So the problem is with the people and not with the tools.

Michael Chertoff

#17. My favorite kinds of stories are the ones that have these big crazy genre hijinks and then a real honest, meaty, emotional story where we're watching a character grapple with some real things.

Greg Pak

#18. There are two kinds of typical days. There's the typical day when I'm writing a novel, and there's the typical day when I'm not.

Paul Auster

#19. If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.

Rudy Rucker

#20. I think Hell exists on Earth. It's a psychological state, or it can be a physical state. People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell. I think there are all kinds of different hells. It's not a place you go to after you die.

Al Franken

#21. I listen to so many different kinds of music - I mean, I listen to everything. I listen to everything from Bon Jovi to Taylor Swift. It just goes everywhere.

Mark Indelicato

#22. I like all kinds of stories, and I usually work on several stories at once. When I run out of gas on one, I start work on the other.

Laurence Yep

#23. Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.

Wes Anderson

#24. There are two kinds of tales: one accurate but not true, the other true but not accurate.

Margaret George

#25. Everywhere I go, I see all kinds of people at my shows - conservatives, liberals, new-agers, teen-agers, old pensioners. And for those people to have something in common is real interesting to me.

Arlo Guthrie

#26. I followed my wanderlust. It bruised me sometimes, and took me to all kinds of highs. Now that my thirst is slaked, I get to start anew.

Elisabeth Eaves

#27. Courage' isn't the kinds of word you use to describe yourself, Nick, even if we both know it's true. That only works if other people are saying it.

Lisa Belkin

#28. Inspired intellect must endure all kinds of ghastly education.

Paul Delaroche

#29. In chess, we have styles - like in any other field. There are also fashions in the kinds of systems that people play. So I'm trying to know my opponent as much as possible.

Garry Kasparov

#30. Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child. And, there is some truth to that.

Stephen King

#31. I've never done a movie that's shot more than 40 days because I just don't do those kinds of films.

Kevin Spacey

#32. 'Give up ... it's time to quit,' I don't think I've ever really accepted those kinds of words in my life or vocabulary.

Willie Aames

#33. I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write about people doing the kinds of things that people do.

Octavia E. Butler

#34. People are not theirs thoughts, they think they are, and it brings them all kinds of sadness.

Nick Nolte

#35. Love is like light and there are two kinds, the bursting fireworks of the moment and the solid, fixed stars that sometimes become obscured in the heavens, but are always there, year after year, for a lifetime.

Ann Rinaldi

#36. I am beginning to think there are two kinds of people," she said. I waited. "Those who forgive themselves too easily but will not forgive others."
"And?" I asked.
"Those that forgive others too easily but will not forgive themselves.

Deb Caletti

#37. My voice is a combination of how I grew up and what I was listening to growing up. I like a lot of different kinds of music and am always being inspired in different ways by different artists for different reasons.

Tess Henley

#38. Marx understood well that the press was not merely a machine but a structure for discourse, which both rules out and insists upon certain kinds of content and, inevitably, a certain kind of audience.

Neil Postman

#39. I'm an actress, a brand, a businesswoman. I'm all kinds of stuff.

Paris Hilton

#40. The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the "Four F's": fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating.

Marvin Dunnette

#41. As for me, I've been in love with women and men. I get how people fall in love with different kinds of people, but to fall in love with God: I didn't get that.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#42. I think 99 percent of women's lib comes from technology making different kinds of lives possible, and then the social adjustment follows the technology - it doesn't precede it.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#43. I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.

Margaret Spellings

#44. It was with some difficulty that I got through the multiplication tables. The fact that I recollect nothing more of those days than having learnt, in company with other boys, to call our teacher all kinds of names, would strongly suggest that my intellect must have been sluggish, and my memory raw.

Mahatma Gandhi

#45. I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the fiction, rather than make an argument or an assertion.

Rachel Kushner

#46. One student was mixing my yoga up with other kinds, and I said, 'No, you cannot do that.' You cannot put calamari in the sushi and call it sushi.

Bikram Choudhury

#47. With my sometimes blunt indecent vocabulary & very vivid imagination, I wonder if I should be writing "other" kinds of content.

April Mae Monterrosa

#48. Thanksgiving just gets me all warm and tingly and all kinds of wonderful inside.

Willard Scott

#49. Clearly this business of treating minds, particularly this big business of treating young minds, has not policed itself, and has no incentive to put a stop to the kinds of fraudulent and unethical practices that are going on.

Patricia Schroeder

#50. There are two kinds of cultures in this world: cultures where what you do matters and cultures where all that matters is who you are. You can be the former or you can suck.

Ben Horowitz

#51. Today, there are three kinds of people: the haves, the have-nots, and the have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves.

Earl Wilson

#52. Domestic violence and violence against women in general seems to be a big problem everywhere in the world. It seems to me this problem comes from stress, pent up anger, frustration, and all kinds of negativity within human beings.

David Lynch

#53. On every family tree you have two kinds of fruit; ripe and rotten.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#54. There are kinds of unity other than those of the explicit and systematic unity that Poole is attacking. There are kinds of movement - in music or athletics, for example - that present themselves as having a certain unity about them. In some sphere we might talk about 'style'.

George Pattison

#55. I can feel so bad about myself, especially if I start to pay attention to the kinds of stupid comments around the Internet.

Charlotte McKinney

#56. The best way to get a sense of what kinds of emergencies might present themselves in your community is by contacting local chapters of the American Red Cross or offices of emergency management in the region or state. Most large cities will have their own offices of emergency management.

Irwin Redlener

#57. Maggie had learned a long time ago that each day with a child was filled with two kinds of battles: those that won the war, and those that did not.

Sydney Strand

#58. Guitars are fun. There are plenty of different kinds to play. They look cool. They sound cool. Don't *you* want to play guitar?

Joe Satriani

#59. The essence of all things determines souls
that are fit to send messages for their kinds.

Toba Beta

#60. There are two kinds of people in boxing. Those who say, 'Oh, boy; Tom Hauser is writing an article about me,' and those who say, 'Big problem; Tom Hauser is writing an article about me.'

Jim Lampley

#61. Universitas in modo citharae sit disposita, in qua diversa genera in modo chordarum sit consonantia. The universe is arranged like a cithera, in which different kinds of things sound together harmoniously, just as they do in a chord.

Honorius Augustodunensis

#62. There is almost no evidence that diagnoses such as 'schizophrenia' and 'bipolar disorder' correspond to discrete entities ('natural kinds' in the language of philosophy).

Richard Bentall

#63. One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his or her work important.

Bertrand Russell

#64. No wonder the Prophet Muhammad said, "In this world take pity on three kinds of people. The rich man who has lost his fortune, the well-respected man who has lost his respectability, and the wise man who is surrounded by ignorants.

Elif Shafak

#65. Traveling has a major impact on what I do, cause all over the world I'm meeting all kinds of people. And relationships is the second major impact that I have. I just enjoy the variety that the world has to offer.

Jason Mraz

#66. Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like no kinds of music.

Chuck Klosterman

#67. I'd say there are two kinds of theater: one you end with an answer, one you end with a question.

Paul Downs Colaizzo

#68. What does happen constantly with all kinds of people I meet is they say "I had this encounter with Jesus, can you help me understand it ... " The labels, more than ever, simply aren't big enough to contain what the cosmic Christ is up to in the world.

Rob Bell

#69. I love different kinds of movies, and I love different kinds of people. That's the spice of life.

Joseph McGinty Nichol

#70. Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.

Carl Sandburg

#71. No one knows who the real me is, so I can be a hundred different kinds of me.

Kristen Schaal

#72. There are all kinds of things we have to deal with in life," Eri finally said. "And one thing always seems to connect with another. You try to solve one problem, only to find that another one you hadn't anticipated arises instead. It's not that easy to get free of them.

Haruki Murakami

#73. I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds of characters. It's really not all lesbians any more.

Alison Bechdel

#74. there were three kinds of thermal features in the world: geysers, mud pots, and fumaroles (steam vents), and Yellowstone featured them all.

C.J. Box

#75. When you travel on a bus with guys who love all kinds of music, you get exposed to some great stuff, man.

Gregg Allman

#76. I'm moved by a lot of different kinds of music, whether it's pop music or R&B or straight-ahead jazz or free or opera or music from all parts of the world.

David Sanborn

#77. Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times.

Greg Egan

#78. There are only two kinds of Mortals in the backwater town of Gatlin, South Carolina - the stupid and the stuck. At least, that's what they say.

Kami Garcia

#79. I use different kinds of materials on different kinds of projects. Today we can do things with steel and glass that we could not do before. flexible enough to change.

Gottfried Bohm

#80. There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.

Amartya Sen

#81. I should say that I'm not conscious of any particular style or any particular literary device when I am writing. I have written 22 books, and they are all very different. I have tried all kinds of genres.

Isabel Allende

#82. Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

#83. Paul sees all kinds of sins in himself and all kinds of accomplishments too, but he refuses to connect them with his identity.

Timothy Keller

#84. But listen to me
there are times in life when those kinds of excuses don't cut it anymore. Situations when nobody cares whether you're suited for the task at hand or not.

Haruki Murakami

#85. The artistic process in digital art is very much the same as for making other kinds of paintings.

Buffy Sainte-Marie

#86. Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.

January Jones

#87. In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.

Tahar Rahim

#88. You see that the people who are drawn to alternative medicine are often fairly healthy and they go to alternative medicine for what I call the 'symptoms of life.' Fatigue, joint pains, inability to concentrate, perhaps, the kinds of things that anyone over twenty-five gets at some point.

Marcia Angell

#89. You can demonize Goldman Sachs all you want, and I'm sure there are reasons to do it. But the real pressure is all of us pressuring the companies for stock returns, and that leads to all kinds of decisions.

John Wells

#90. I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood.

George R R Martin

#91. It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.

Fay Wray

#92. We all handle loss in our individual ways, grieve in all kinds of ways. We all go through feeling okay sometimes, but other times, we feel so bad we hurt ourselves or those around us.

E. Journey

#93. There are only two kinds of people in this world. The realists and the dreamers. The realists know where they are going and the dreamers have already been there.

Robert Orben

#94. Daily abandon would prove to be more costly than the reckless kinds of obedience.

Jennie Allen

#95. Some ghosts tried to be showy. These were the kinds to avoid.

Lesley Howarth

#96. There are two kinds of genius. The first and highest may be said to speak out of the eternal to the present, and must compel its age to understand it; the second understands its age, and tells it what it wishes to be told.

James Russell Lowell

#97. There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it. The first visitor has an easier time, but I think the second visitor sees more.

Adam Gopnik

#98. It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I really like to think of the brain as a computer.

Edward Boyden

#99. There are two kinds of pain: the pain of change and the pain of never changing and remaining the same.

Joyce Meyer

#100. I started off writing kind of big summer, blockbustery kinds of movies, but at that time, I had no name, nobody knew who I was, and somebody told me I can't write movies that are going to cost $100 million to make and expect someone to buy them; it was just impractical.

David Leslie Johnson