Top 100 Quotes About All Sorts
#1. When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.
Matt Gonzalez
#2. I read extensively about serial killers and all sorts of things people get up to.
Karin Slaughter
#4. We crossed one of the subterranean rivers, then wound our wag through the library quarter and the Chamber of Birds.
(Carter says I should tell you why it's called that. It's a cave full of all sorts of birds. Again
duh. [Carter, why are you banging your head against the table?])
Rick Riordan
#5. I kind of consider myself a chameleon in music. I love all sorts of music.
Nick Carter
#6. We know that creative people have all sorts of demons.
Suzy Menkes
#7. In Victorian England, people were told they should discourage their wives from reading because it would lead them into all sorts of devilish wickedness.
Marion Bailey
#8. It's to be a person who's able to shoot little arrows into sacred cows and knock politicians off their pedestals, to look out for hypocrisy, advocate for all sorts of things from social justice to peace.
Jonathan Shapiro
#9. I do give a great deal of forethought and zone in on character and all sorts of things like that. Never before have I just stuffed something away in the back cupboard of my brain because it was just such a crazy concept.
Greg Kinnear
#10. You can hardly imagine how I am struggling to exert my poetical ideas just now for the discovery of analogies & remote figures respecting the earth, Sun & all sorts of things-for I think it is the true way (corrected by judgement) to work out a discovery.
Michael Faraday
#11. As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul and later sneak into my music.
Eric Whitacre
#12. You get all sorts of people in the library, and the librarian gets it all ...
Terry Pratchett
#13. You was in all sorts of places, huh?" "Yeah, I was. Saw the world." "What'd you think of it?" "Different languages, same shit.
Dennis Lehane
#14. If you saw my musical collection it's absolutely horrendous, I've got everything from Stockhausen to The Beach Boys to Gina G, all sorts of terrible things and other people come here and look at my record collection and go, "Ah, you can't possibly like that - how embarrassing!"
Thighpaulsandra
#15. All sorts of men don't make it home for the births of their children. But My mother was out of town on the day I was born, so she missed it, just seems ... seems like a more profound complaint, somehow.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#16. You can't use a drawing to prove a war crime. A drawing doesn't have that notion that it's proof of a reality. Because of that, you can do all sorts of interesting things in it.
Molly Crabapple
#17. Your mind outwears all sorts of things you may set your heart upon; you can enjoy it when all other things are taken away.
Katherine Anne Porter
#18. I had displeased the jacobins by blaming their aristocratic usurpation of legitimate powers; the priests of all sorts by claiming religious liberty; the anarchists by repressing them; and the conspirators by rejecting their offers.
Marquis De Lafayette
#19. People project all sorts of emotions onto their cats, and cats like it that way.
Lisa Scottoline
#20. The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.
Louise Erdrich
#21. if you only let your thoughts go, they can come up with all sorts of things, conjuring up images of anyone at all, making caricatures of even the people that you know and love most.
The self-preservation instinct. Let your subconscious make parodies of your loss and anxiety and jealousy.
Mons Kallentoft
#22. I got so much love for classical music and I hear so much incredible music.You should know a bunch of music and have respect for all sorts of genres and styles of music.
Bruno Mars
#23. This world is going in all sorts of directions, but I think all you can do is get people to think about things in a different way, because sometimes people aren't even thinking.
Jillian Hervey
#24. I was pretty young when my father was prime minister, so it wasn't really a big part of my life. My folks were away a lot, meeting foreign dignitaries and that sort of thing, but it never struck me as odd. If anything it allowed me to get into all sorts of mischief.
Julian McMahon
#25. What person here illegally (and in his right mind), will go to the government, announce being here illegally (e.g. plead guilty), provide all sorts of information as to where that person lives etc. to get a work permit only to be a target for deportation in two years?
Greta Van Susteren
#26. You know, I change my hair color a lot, I do all sorts of different things.
Kelly Lynch
#27. One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
Margaret Thatcher
#28. All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work.
Thomas J. Watson
#29. As always, we prepare for all sorts of contingencies. And the first few days of the flight up until docking on Day 3 are all spent really in the rendezvous because we launch at a time that puts us in an optimal position to catch up to station.
Linda M. Godwin
#30. Life is magical. There is something wonderful in being alive, in having within one's self all sorts of possibilities.
Arthur Lynch
#31. Those truffled turkeys, of which the reputation and the price are still increasing, appear like beneficient stars, and make the eyes sparkle of all sorts of gourmands of every category, whilst their faces beam with delight and they themselves dance with pleasure.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
#32. Our problem as Americans
at least, among my race and gender
is that we resist the very idea of limits, regarding limits of all sorts as temporary and regrettable impositions on our lives.
Parker J. Palmer
#33. Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.
A. Lee Martinez
#34. I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.
N. T. Wright
#35. I'm horny as a motherfucker, hard and itching to get my sadistic groove on. As I stroke myself, my mind starts coming up with all sorts of fantastic ways I can torture my beautiful wife as I look around the room for more everyday items that will work in that regard.
Ella Dominguez
#36. McGeorge Bundy was a brilliant man who'd had a meteoric academic career and was the youngest man ever to be dean of the Harvard faculty. But he was also arrogant and looked upon all sorts of people and politicians as not to be taken all that seriously.
Robert Dallek
#37. With all prayer (Eph. 6:18) All sorts of prayer- public, private, mental, vocal. Do not be diligent in one kind of prayer and negligent in others ... let us use all.
John Wesley
#38. I learned just by going around. I know all about Kleenex factories, and all sorts of things.
Anne, Princess Royal
#39. An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.
Roald Dahl
#40. There's a crazy lady living in your head. I hope you'll be comforted to hear that you're not alone. Most of us have an invisible inner terrible someone who says all sorts of nutty stuff that has no basis in truth.
Cheryl Strayed
#42. If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface.
Emma Thompson
#43. How did you do that?" Mr. Poe asked. "Nice girls shouldn't know how to do such things."
"My sister is a nice girl," Klaus said, "and she knows how to do all sorts of things.
Lemony Snicket
#44. By the time we have our fifth and sixth you'll be a pro." Kane teased. He nuzzled Sebastien head. " Do you hear that, son ? You're our experiment, so you'll have all sorts of excuses to do very naughty things.
Christine Feehan
#45. All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.
Jacques Lacan
#46. I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys didn't mess with me. But as one of seven children, you have to fight for everything anyway.
Amy Adams
#47. My job is to play many different roles with all sorts of different backgrounds and orientations.
Josh Charles
#48. A single thought, he considered, could do all sorts of harm. Harm to what, he wasn't sure, but he identified it as harm.
Adam P. Knave
#49. I have more ideas than I know what to do with. I guess I'm a bit of a fantasist and a daydreamer - all sorts of things come to me during the day.
Dasha Zhukova
#50. It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the moon, some famous inventors, a dog and a rabbit.
Kit Williams
#51. Ownership and control is important, because if you don't own what you do, all sorts of stupid stuff happens to it, and people spend good money on garbage.
Kevin Shields
#52. By making offers Modular, the business can create and improve each offer in isolation, then mix and match offers as necessary to better serve their customers. It's like playing with LEGOS: once you have a set of pieces to work with, you can put them together in all sorts of interesting ways.
Josh Kaufman
#53. The aquifer [is] the water table people need to keep secure. Nature has this incredible system of water purification under the ground. Ground water is much better to drink than surface water because it filters out the bacteria that can cause all sorts of problems.
Josh Fox
#54. I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
M. J. Hyland
#55. I studied calculus for the first time, which to me was an amazingly empowering experience which I could really see how you could understand all sorts of things, and I decided that chemistry and biology just had too much memory for me to be interested. Physics was very easy.
Marshall Nicholas Rosenbluth
#56. True opinions are a fine thing and do all sorts of good so long as they stay in their place; but they will not stay long. They run away from a man's mind, so they are not worth much until you tether them by working out the reason. Once they are tied down, they become knowledge, and are stable.
Plato
#57. Superman has evolved continually in the comic books over the course of 75 years. He couldn't even fly for years in the original comic books. Kryptonite wasn't added until the '60s. All sorts of things like this. If a character is going to remain vital, he does have to change with the times.
David S.Goyer
#58. The scientific approach to the phenomenon of human nature enables us to be ignorant without bieng frightened, and without, therefore, having to invent all sorts of wierd theories to explain away our gaps in knowledge.
Donald Woods Winnicott
#60. Would any grown girl in Russia be frightened by a "room of horror"? Westerner's lives are too calm and peaceful, is makes them afraid of all sorts of nonsense ...
Sergei Lukyanenko
#61. In all sorts of government man is made to believe himself free, and to be in chains.
Stanislaw Leszczynski
#62. Essentially, we humans live well enough and long enough, and are smart enough, to generate all sorts of stressful events purely in our heads.
Robert M. Sapolsky
#63. For a year, I had all sorts of weirdos coming on to me.
Boris Becker
#64. To me, the best projects are the ones where you have a pretty good idea of what the spine of it's gonna be, but then all sorts of things happen that you could've never predicted, and those are the magic moments of the films.
Marshall Curry
#65. When we have many things within ourselves which are neither known nor accepted, then such things complicate our lives horrifyingly, and in fact provoke all sorts of situations which could be avoided through knowledge of ourselves.
Samael Aun Weor
#66. Education and all sorts of horrible things are going to happen to me.
C.S. Lewis
#67. In Latin America in general, and Cuba in particular, poets have been the inspiration behind struggles for independence, struggles for freedom of all sorts.
Margarita Engle
#68. Happiness is just a great equalizer. It's like water. You pour happiness liberally and all sorts of great things are going to happen.
June Millington
#69. He had read endless books, he had digested them, pondered over them. Day by day, year after year, he had turned over all the problems of human beings. Yet there were all sorts of simple things he didn't know how to do: he couldn't even walk into an inn and sit down at a table.
Georges Simenon
#70. I think many people love their problems. Gives them all sorts of excuses for not growing up and getting on with life.
Louise Penny
#71. My very addictive personality and all sorts of strongholds are a thing of the past for me. Yet at the root of every single one of those issues was insecurity, something I had battled since childhood.
Beth Moore
#72. There are all sorts of things that would be comforting. I expect an injection of morphine would be comforting ... But to say that something is comforting is not to say that it's true.
Richard Dawkins
#73. Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.
Meg Cabot
#74. Hatter was dressed in his outlandish clothes again and her heart beamed with pride. "You know," she said, "you're all sorts of perfect." He smiled, but she saw pleasure in his eyes.
Marie Hall
#75. Sorry I'm not your boyfriend. And I mean that in all sorts of ways.
Amy Plum
#76. There's no excuse in a technological age where we've got drones - you know, overhead, and we can monitor anything, all sorts of minutia - that we can't track living flesh-and-blood children.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
#77. To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good - in all sorts of social grace and decorum. But to consider ourselves as
having reached morality - for that, much is lacking.
Immanuel Kant
#78. People commonly misquote the old Sacrinomicon and say that money is the root of all evil, which is moronic if you think about it. The real quote is that the love of money is the root of all sorts of evil. Not as pithy, but a lot truer.
Brent Weeks
#79. I found that golf saved me from going to the pub every day, so instead, I play golf with other unemployed actors. I'm a member of the Stage Golfing Society, and I play golf with all sorts of people.
Phil Daniels
#80. Saying that government is not the way to solve problems is not saying that humanity cannot solve its problems. What I've finally learned is this: Despite the obstacles created by governments, voluntary networks of private individuals - through voluntary exchange - solve all sorts of challenges.
John Stossel
#81. I use Ole Henriksen eye gel when I think of it, and go for facials when spa gift certificates appear as a professional thank-you or in a gift bag. Once ensconced in a facialist's chair, I let myself be coaxed into all sorts of treatments, because I'm there already, so why not?
Sloane Crosley
#82. The dream might have been more than a dream. It was as if a door in the wall of reality had come ajar ... and now all sorts of unwelcome things were flying through.
Stephen King
#83. It's funny how your relationship with your own looks changes when you go weeks without seeing yourself. None of us really knows what we look like after all. In that nanosecond it takes for a mirror to give our faces back to us our mind has already done all sorts of perverse rearranging.
Nina De Gramont
#84. It takes all sorts of people to make a world, as I've often heard, but I think there are some who could be spared,' Anne told her reflection in the east gable mirror that night.
L.M. Montgomery
#85. I suppose once you've been accused of being a witch, you're never really safe. People may blame all sorts of accidents and misfortunes on you.
Hugh Lofting
#86. I love to work in all sorts of different situations.
Laura Linney
#87. In 1930s mysteries, all sorts of motives were credible which aren't credible today, especially motives of preventing guilty sexual secrets from coming out. Nowadays, people sell their guilty sexual secrets.
P.D. James
#88. I don't buy into the glory days thing. I think every time has its great things to it. The '60s were such a glorious time but it's easy to forget that there was all sorts of bullshit too.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#89. L.A. is a place people come to for all sorts of reasons, often to reinvent themselves, and that fascinates me.
Caroline Leavitt
#90. As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.
Jim Evans
#91. We have all sorts of words that could describe us. But we get to choose which ones are most important.
Jennifer E. Smith
#92. If this acting thing doesn't work, I'd just put in my resume. I'm a really huge basketball fan ... I'll talk all sorts of trash.
Genesis Rodriguez
#93. As I understand it, the Celts venerated all sorts of plexus-type things: the seashore, dawn, dusk, the edge of the forest - anything that was neither here nor there, so to speak.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#94. People go through life failing to see all sorts of amazing things because they aren't expecting to see them.
Dean Koontz
#95. All sorts of creative communities are withering in New York because it's too hard to live here. It's ridiculous how expensive it is.
Susan Choi
#96. I do like the way people behave toward me and Theresa when we're together-everyone's voice changes to music, and we get all sorts of smiles.
Kenneth Logan
#97. Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Time. I would tend to do that all the time, you know? I tended to do all sorts of weird things. Just to get effects.
George Martin
#98. There are all sorts of ways a leader can foster interactive teaching and learning if he starts thinking, Where do I socially architect myself?
Noel Tichy
#99. I was at a speaking engagement for MIT ... and I said, 'The Professor has all sorts of degrees, including one from this very institution [MIT]! And that's why I can make a radio out of a coconut, and not fix a hole in a boat!'
Russell Johnson
#100. Leo, sadly, has Parkinson's, but he used to cook all sorts of dazzling things.
Jilly Cooper