Top 100 Most Of Quotes
#1. In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I've been able to hang around longer than most "serious" acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.
Al Yankovic
#2. They've got lots of theories, books, sciences - I've read a lot of those books. Most of them are pretty unhappy.
Frederick Lenz
#3. Mosca had come armed with a rich pack of lies, ready to pick whichever seemed to suit Goshawk's mood best. Under the wintry draught of his gaze, however, she felt most of them wither away in her hands.
Frances Hardinge
#4. Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for ... are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.
Ray Bradbury
#5. Most of the social and political ills from which you suffer are under your control, given only the will and courage to change them. You can live in another and a wiser fashion if you choose to think it out and work it out. You are not awake to your own power.
H.G.Wells
#6. It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Women's Liberation.
Germaine Greer
#7. Most of my life I've had long periods of feeling down and lost. That's why every five years or so I've smashed my life to pieces and started again.
Siobhan Fahey
#8. If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#9. Efforts to make work fun only annoy most of us, especially the introvert.
Laurie A. Helgoe
#10. Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not just our public blogs and broadcast tweets, but every private text message, email, and voicemail is likely to be stored and accessible. Forever.
Douglas Rushkoff
#11. Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred;
Mark Twain
#12. Most of all, I loved seeing Princess Leia strangling you at the end of Return of the Jedi.
Seth Green
#13. What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.
Alfred De Vigny
#14. You just...you just don't do anything. You get lost in your head, and you sit around thinking instead of getting on with something, and most of the time you think rubbish. You always seem to miss what's really happening.
Nick Hornby
#15. A man's mouth gets him in more trouble than his pecker ever could, most of the time.
Stephen King
#16. Maybe it don't seem to make sense for a fella to be doing things for a reason that he don't know about. But I reckon I've been doing it most of my life.
Jim Thompson
#17. I still agree with the invasion of Iraq. I don't agree with most of the decisions that accompanied it.
William Hague
#18. Solving problems isn't so much about simplifying them as it is about properly and realistically reducing them to only what's relevant. And one of the best ways to reduce a problem to only what's relevant is to throw away most of your assumptions about it.
Christian Cantrell
#19. Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.
Ernst Mayr
#20. We were a roiling mass of opinion, most of it mean. Here we sat at civilization's technological peak, and what we chose to do on that shining pinnacle was hate each other's guts.
Lydia Millet
#21. How I hate the Beautiful Game! I hate its cry-baby players and its gruff, joyless managers, its blokish supporters and its sinister owners, its whistle-peeping referees and its chippy little linesmen, its excitable commentators and - perhaps most of all - its unpluggable 'analysts.'
Craig Brown
#22. I'm not sure when exactly I knew I was funny, but I always knew I was different. I never had an 'edit' button and would say whatever came into my head. Most of the time, what came out of my mouth was the very thing everyone else was thinking - but too polite or afraid to verbalize.
Judy Gold
#23. Nykyrian glanced up from his dinner preparations. "Syn has a brain disorder that causes him to lie most of the time. Ignore him."
Syn snorted. "I don't lie. I merely tell the truth creatively."
-Nykyrian & Syn
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#24. Most of my hunting experiences has been in tree stands. I've never called deer.
Joe Teti
#25. Most of what Congress does fits the description of forcing one American to serve the purposes of another American. That description differs only in degree, but not in kind, from slavery.
Walter E. Williams
#26. There's no fast track, no easy track, especially from where I came from. You try to take the most of it and learn from it and hope others learn from it. That's what it is about.
Marshall Faulk
#27. The reality is that most of the time, the more bizarre the trend, the more bogus the results.
Jillian Michaels
#28. Them sportswriters don't even know how to put uniforms on, most of 'em.
Eric Dickerson
#29. I've always got on better with boys. Most of my friends are boys. Like, if I have children, I want five boys. Boys love their mothers whereas girls can be so mean to each other.
Adele
#30. We spend most of our lives working. So why do so few people have a good time doing it?
Richard Branson
#31. Television is ultimately a business of failure. You try a lot of things, and most of it fails.
Greg Berlanti
#32. Be positive. Believe that you will succeed. See it, go for it. No matter what the odds, most of the battle is inside your own head. -- Bob Mayer
Sue Ward Drake
#33. Most of Hitler's henchmen were not demons. They were overly obedient petty bourgeois who had mutated into murderers.
Rudolph Herzog
#34. I love jewelry, I love bracelets, necklaces, but most of all I'm casual.
Helena Mattsson
#35. Coffee's the most important thing they sell because most of us need it to keep us going, like gas in the car.
Emma Donoghue
#36. Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Andy Rooney
#38. It made no sense, but then, life was rather senseless most of the time.
Beverly Lewis
#39. I've assimilated the hit. I've passed along most of what I can and now I'm prepared to live with it. But in my opinion, prices will come down.
Steve King
#40. I probably prefer comedy. Why? I'm not sure. I feel like the energy of a comedy is a better fit for me. I try to be a happy guy! It seems that most of my life has the energy more for a comedy than for drama. I'm grateful to do both, but I would have to lean towards the comedy side of acting.
Cameron Mathison
#41. I got most of my confidence by having a mother who never said "I don't like this or this." It was just, "You've got to love what you have because it is the only body that has been given." I know that is where a lot of my confidence came from.
Ashley Graham
#42. You will gain energy by meditating deeply, by speaking the truth, by learning to be still and by avoiding the crowd, most of the time, not all of the time.
Frederick Lenz
#43. But one week later, when the researchers measured typing speeds again, they found that the workers, on average, were completing 103 lines per hour. Another week later: 112 lines. Most of the typists had blown past the goals they had set.
Charles Duhigg
#44. Families interest me - I'm part of one; most of us come from one. And I'm curious about the choices made in life, how they affect things, and how those choices happen.
Anne Meara
#45. What do you see when you look at a representational painting? Most of the time, the first thing I see is a flat piece of canvas covered with colored patterns.
Terry Teachout
#46. I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.
H. G. Bissinger
#47. I'm very social. It's just most of my friends are not actors.
Topher Grace
#48. If we were living in harmony with the seasons, most of us would not be working the same hours in winter. In fact, we'd be resting.
Amanda Gates
#49. You are not going to do most of the work. You shouldn't be doing most of the work ... and the way you get out of doing most of the work, is you delegate.
Keith Rabois
#50. Whatever helps you sleep is my opinion on the subject, and that's what I like about the western world's most popular religion, it has helped put so many people to sleep, although most of them permanently and without their approval.
Roseanne Barr
#51. She'd made him watch every Alien movie. Most of the goriest scenes were accompanied by his dialogue: 'Ach, that's no' - that's just no' right ... Bloody hell, this canna be right.
Kresley Cole
#52. Most of us start from that position of irony now and what I wanted to do - really felt like I had to do if I was going to write another novel - was move towards something like sincerity.
Ben Lerner
#53. Sometimes good art jumps out at me; most of the time I see bad art, or see nothing at all and just drift, feeling weird, pretending to be fine.
Jerry Saltz
#54. She was only six inches over five feet, and he stood almost a foot above her. Normally, she was used to being somewhat taller than most of the girls she knew, but now she felt like a small child standing in front of him, and it only increased her frustration.
Shellie Nicholson
#55. It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanings of everything.
Maurice Sendak
#56. I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.
Robert Benchley
#57. They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse.
Terry Pratchett
#58. I'm mostly inspired by relationships and things that are going on in my everyday life. It's hard for me to write songs about things I don't experience firsthand, but most of the time it's about relationships - things that are going on in my head.
Meiko
#59. So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire. There's no two ways about it. It's a huge empire. It's been extremely successful.
John Perkins
#60. Where most people live, most of us, imagining it to be the real sunlit world when it is only a cave lit by the flickering fires of illusion.
E.L. Doctorow
#61. The ideas which are here expressed so laboriously are extremely simple and should be obvious. The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
John Maynard Keynes
#62. No stress, no fights. I'm leaving it all behind. No tears, no time to cry. Just making the most of life.
Mariah Carey
#63. I imagine most of that stuff on the information highway is roadkill anyway.
John Updike
#64. Comics creators are generally screwed in life: Most of us who are fortunate enough to do comics full time - which is very few of us - will literally draw until we die because we have no employment structures intact for retirement, much less insurance!
Nate Powell
#66. Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.
Al Stewart
#67. I act for the reality, for the moment, and most of all I do it for the process.
Ted Shackelford
#68. The police feel that most of the public are against them and that there is a lot of bad feeling.
Peter James
#69. I think most of my lessons come from sports. That's why I always emphasise to young kids to get involved in sports because it's where you learn about discipline. It's where you learn to keep going, where if you think you can't make it, you can.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#70. I don't know how it is with other writers, but most of the time when I finish [reading] a story or novel, I may be pleased, I may even be impressed, but somewhere in the back of my mind I'm thinking, I can do that.
F. Paul Wilson
#71. It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future.
Winona Ryder
#72. Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally joyous spirits and innocence were they staid enough to be considered mature. An adult was essentially a broken-down child.
Piers Anthony
#73. Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and miss much of their benefits from grateful appreciation]
Izaak Walton
#74. We need to have a better balance between a deliberate strategy and staying open. Because in the end, most of us end up being successful in a career that we never imagined we would be in at the beginning.
Clayton Christensen
#75. Political leaders, who use the tools of mass propaganda to create a sense of faux intimacy with citizens, no longer need to be competent, sincere, or honest. They need only to appear to have these qualities. Most of all they need a story, a personal narrative.
Chris Hedges
#76. By Refusing to accept things, because they do not please us,we spend most of our lives making meaningless gestures Somewhere Next Door to Reality.
ZBS Foundation
#77. Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#78. In this day and age, you gotta be a profiler to really know who people are, which most of us are not. So, we need time and life to start happening for people to really show their trust colors.
Joe Budden
#79. Every day is a gift from God. There's no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.
Joel Osteen
#80. Japanese had never seen a Western-style circus, and most of them had probably never seen foreigners, either.
Frederik L. Schodt
#81. There's a fine line between career criminals and career professionals because most of us fall somewhere in between.
Samantha Leahy
#83. As a general rule, when you comment on a blog, make it knowledgeable or witty and, most of all, relevant to that post - then, simply sign it with your name and your book title. Resist the urge to brag or sell your book.
M.J. Rose
#84. I don't think you go out of style when you're living in the present most of the time. And I think that is what I do.
Shirley Maclaine
#85. A well-adjusted person wouldn't talk much. There's not a lot to be said about most of life. Most days, weeks, years, lives, nothing happens... and still we carry on chattering at each other.
James Ferron Anderson
#86. I decided to leave most of my wealth to my charitable foundation, which is not to be confused with my charity. My charity helps children directly. The charitable foundation will receive most of my legacy when I die.
John Caudwell
#87. I think being in a band is probably the only job when you're actively encouraged to be out of it most of the time.
Martin Gore
#88. Most of your desires are not really about yourself. You just picked them up from your social surroundings.
Jaggi Vasudev
#89. Her happiness, like that of most of us, was ever in the future, - never reached but always coming.
Anthony Trollope
#90. It is desire that engenders belief; if we fail as a rule to take this into account, it is because most of the desires that create beliefs end only with out own life.
Marcel Proust
#91. The race is now on between the technoscientific and scientific forces that are destroying the living environment and those that can be harnessed to save it ... If the race is won, humanity can emerge in far better condition than when it entered, and with most of the diversity of life still intact.
Edward O. Wilson
#92. I don't think that gay and lesbian relationships are identical to heterosexual relationships. I do think that heterosexual weddings, or at least most of them, are sort of camp pantomimes about male and female sex roles, even if the couple is marrying as individuals and equals ...
Dan Savage
#93. Most of us are creatures so comforted by habit, it can take something on the order of religion to invoke new, more conscious behaviors
however glad we may be afterward that we went to the trouble.
Barbara Kingsolver
#94. Most of the time, I regard the judgment of people as a waste of time. I regard the judgment of behavior as imperative.
Nathaniel Branden
#95. What I'd had with most of my school friends hadn't been friendship at all. That had been the habit of the familiar, the reassurance of the unchanged.
Rebecca Starford
#96. What makes most of us who we are most of all is...how we respond to what happens to us.
Joshua Prager
#97. Most of the manufacturers they tend to design things to sell they are more interested in the money side than anything else.
Massimo Vignelli
#98. If you have to ask, you've never been in love. More than that, you've never had your feelings hurt by the one you want to trust and cherish you most of all.
Cameron Dokey
#99. Most of the news about the state of the environment is pretty ugly. This is frightening for me personally, but actually motivational for me artistically.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#100. Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.
Ranbir Kapoor
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