Some Kind Quotes

#1. There are so many opportunities to learn things online, like between Coursera and Khan Academy and Duolingo. There are these awesome websites that are kind of these little personal Aristotles. There are times when I'm preparing for a role of some kind, and then I'll focus on a certain subject.

Brie Larson

#2. After a great many questions I eventually ascertained that he is suffering from some kind of disorder of the mind. Is there anything more sorrowful than a brain whose proper function has been disrupted?

Diane Setterfield

#3. The moral is that it is probably better not to sin at all, but if
some kind of sin you must be pursuing,
Well, remember to do it by doing rather than by not doing.

Ogden Nash

#4. The early influences, in many ways, were in Baltimore. I was passing open windows where there might be a radio playing something funky. In the summertime, sometimes there'd be a man sitting on a step, playing an acoustic guitar, playing some kind of folk blues. The seed had been planted.

Jerry Leiber

#5. Once or twice a week, I try to do some kind of boxing. I'm hitting the bags and jumping rope - all that stuff.

Mekhi Phifer

#6. To my mind, the most important thing in any form of fiction is the human element, but only if it takes us beyond the everyday, into situations that examine the complexities that may fascinate or puzzle us. To dwell on the mundane as some kind of a writing exeercise is useless.

Graham Worthington

#7. For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).

Douglas Hofstadter

#8. Peppermint Patty's team is short a glove, so I'm walking over to lend them mine."
"You're kidding! Don't you think they're taking advantage of you?"
"No, I'm doing it because I want to do it."
"What are you, some kind of mystic?!

Charles M. Schulz

#9. When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make some kind of artistic or creative impact, that's the age when you start to figure out how to do that.

Daniel Radcliffe

#10. You'd think there'd be some kind of more dramatic mental event associated with updating on an observation of infinitesimal probability -" Harry stopped himself. Mum, the witch, and even his Dad were giving him that look again. "I mean, with finding out that everything I believe is false.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#11. When I was a kid, I used think that my mother has some kind of magic in her hands because the same food eaten by her hands, tasted different.And now when I am grown up.. I am sure.. she has some magic in her hands..

Himmilicious

#12. Extend some kind of unexpected generosity to someone, preferably a stranger, every single day for two weeks. The more you practice being generous, the more you'll impact others in an inspiring way.

Wayne Dyer

#13. Let's think like a cop or to be a killer. If I want to be killer I will left some kind a evidence which make me different from the others... so was it this there?? Why you close it?? Was it open?? Did you, you open it???
....

Deyth Banger

#14. So am I dead? How many kinds of living and dead and living dead and dead living had I been in just these few months, these few days, after the stasis of plain old human living and dying? I deserved some kind of existential medal.

Joan Frances Turner

#15. Some kind of clean, pure feeling does live within us, existing apart from all our convictions.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#16. The world may or may not be with our purpose. But its not totally without some kind of magic
[Magic in the moonlight movie - by Woody Allen]

Woody Allen

#17. A little
bunny or some kind of ferret was probably
there too, and bore witness as only rodents can.

John Ashbery

#18. I have found, and most artists are probably this way, that [when] you're working on some kind of idea, the idea makes demands.

Michelle Stuart

#19. I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.

Nick Cave

#20. My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.

Alan Rickman

#21. There is no 'ultimate goal of therapy.' Thinking there is some ultimate or universal goal of therapy is one of the most fundamental errors of our field. To me, that concept is rather arrogant, as if therapists were some kind of spiritual experts who knew what human beings are supposed to be like.

David D. Burns

#22. Outer conditions do not resolve themselves without some kind of inner
personal adjustment.

Ngina Otiende

#23. When I was a girl I didn't know/I was a girl. I thought I was/more of a pigment, a choral tone,/some kind of weather that disrupts everyone's life in the living room.

Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

#24. I didn't stand for anything. If I wanted to matter - even just to myself - I would have to be less free, by deciding to choose in some kind of definite way.

David Foster Wallace

#25. Hell, everyone's nice until some kind of hard choice is put in front of them.
Coronado: Stories

Dennis Lehane

#26. Who is god?
What's a faith?

...

Is it some kind of lord?

Deyth Banger

#27. Reliable people have been seeing the phenomenon known as flying saucers for a thousand years and more. There are good reports as far back as 1500 B.C. and before. Thousands of people have seen some kind of navigable contraptions in the sky, and some have sworn it under oath.

Morris K. Jessup

#28. Eventually, I spent so much time in the friend zone
that I grew to think of it as some kind
of magical home away from home, some lush forest
filled with unicorns and elves and puppies
none of whom were getting laid.

Dylan Garity

#29. I want to do a collaboration or some kind of side thing or some soundtrack work. Because I've been doing this for years and years. I'd like to just step out and try something different.

Jon Crosby

#30. How would it be.. if all my hate disappeared like my youth, if after all this time his very hatred of me turned out to be something gentle, some kind of love.

Louise Wareham Leonard

#31. You can't flood the market with every TV show, every reality show, and dump your library into the market all at one time and not have some kind of game plan in terms of pricing.

Bill Mechanic

#32. I think every pet lover has an appreciation for nature - I've never met an animal lover who didn't have some kind of connection to the natural world.

Glenn Close

#33. I wondered if full-blooded vampires had something like blue balls for their fangs if they didn't get to feed when they were expecting to. Like some kind of pseudo-sexual gingivitis.

Sierra Dean

#34. I think probably when I was little, after my brother turned on me, I just had to play by myself or with myself. I've always done that. I think either it's some kind of weirdly competitive streak or it takes my mind off whatever's bothering me.

John Malkovich

#35. A real friend is someone who does n0t give you expectation about delivering on some kind of peer group pressure.

Tony Orlando

#36. This is why I am not religious. If and when we do learn the true secret of the universe, some kind of religion will be there to hide it. To cover it up. To persecute and shred, to burn and destroy. They stay in business by keeping us in the Dark Ages.

John Dunning

#37. I was struck by the way Europeans see history as something neatly linear. For me, it's not that; it's not some kind of straight railway.

Richard Flanagan

#38. spent a nervous night together. The next morning, the doctors performed a C-section. As they were working, they hit some kind of artery and splashed blood all over the place. I was deathly afraid for my

Chris Kyle

#39. If you cannot accept an external event immediately, then some kind of resistance will come up. And there may be some external events you cannot accept at all.

Eckhart Tolle

#40. They were queen bitches and it seemed everyone and everything they knew and everyone and everything they didn't know deserved some kind of criticism.

S.A. Tawks

#41. A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

Thomas Malthus

#42. My father Bill had a problem with Christmas. Although he appears in old photographs to possess a whippy, muscular frame, he was actually a frail man and usually managed to cause some kind of drama just before the festivities began.

Christopher Fowler

#43. Whoa, sexy weirdness," said Emma. "This may be more sexy weirdness than I can handle."
"It is not weird!"
"It is," said Emma. "You are headed for a faerie threesome. Or some kind of war."
"Emma!"
"Hot faerie threesome," said Emma cheerfully. "I can say I knew you when.

Cassandra Clare

#44. I'm not trying to be some kind of underground renegade.

Alex Winter

#45. Especially with a comedy, you've got the clear cut goal of trying to make a scene funny. It's not like drama where you're trying to achieve some kind of emotion or trying to further the story along. You're trying to figure out what's the funniest way to do something.

Luke Wilson

#46. Acting is doing, because everything you say or do is some kind of an action, some kind of a verb. You're always connected to the other person through some kind of action.

Mira Sorvino

#47. I had an unspoken treaty with myself to never lie in my lyrics, so, for a long time, when I wrote love songs, I would use genderless pronouns, like "dear" and "darling" - like some kind of granny!

Arca

#48. Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#49. Every outfit carries cultural baggage of some kind. It took me a while to get a handle on this aspect of performance.

David Byrne

#50. Ralph also took some classes in philosophy and literature and felt himself on the brink of some kind of huge discovery about himself. But it never came.

Raymond Carver

#51. Which makes Archer and Nick-"
"Cousins," Archer filled in, still stirring his soup. "Nearly murdered by my own relative. That has to win some kind of medal for dysfunction." Then his expression darkened. "Or maybe it's just family tradition.

Rachel Hawkins

#52. Making money isn't something to be ashamed of. There's a feeling now that if you have money you must have got it by some kind of shady dealing or being an MP.

Terry Pratchett

#53. Did you know the local tv channels broadcasts your 900 in an endless loop? It's a bunch of video want ads for snowmobiles, then some kind of school crap with Everett Walsh that nobody wants to see over and over,and then you.

Jennifer Echols

#54. It was one of those moments that would have had dramatic music if my life were a movie, but instead I got a radio jingle for some kind of submarine sandwich place blaring over the store's ambient stereo. The movie ofmy life must be really low-budget.

Jim Butcher

#55. I'm all mixed up inside. It's like - I don't know - like an ignition of some kind. one minute, I'm fine, and the next I'm losing it.

Catherine Anderson

#56. I hope that I have given happiness to others. I hope I have given children to the world, and that I have made some kind of a mark for myself here.

Jayne Mansfield

#57. Meg, I'm not suddenly some kind of all-knowing dragon expert, you know.

Michelle Knudsen

#58. There should be some kind of rule against needing to kill anything more than once.

Jim Butcher

#59. I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt- and there is the story of mankind.

John Steinbeck

#60. Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

Toni Morrison

#61. Falling in love is some kind of madness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#62. Single men never have any problems. I suppose that the public builds some kind of idea from what they've seen of me on the screen.

Clark Gable

#63. She's improving every day."
Considering we've just left Lara having to be given something "to calm her down" because she was crying her eyes out, I have to wonder if my mother is living in some kind of alternative reality.

Sarah Darer Littman

#64. We've all been brought up with the view that religion has some kind of special privileged status. You're not allowed to criticise it.

Richard Dawkins

#65. Makeup can be pure fantasy
it can transform you into any kind of magical creature, whether that's a superhero or a retro Hollywood icon or just a more fun, fresher version of yourself. Looking like a stress-free, well-rested working mom? That's some kind of magic to me.

Jessica Alba

#66. Am I going to spend the rest of my life trying to get some kind of approval from him that he's never going to give?

Candace Bushnell

#67. Everytime I go to Vegas, I seem to incur some kind of fine.

Artie Lange

#68. And specimens like this confirmed there had been some kind of divine rule in the universe because no natural selection process was up to the task of creating something like him. This was some god's, somewhere's, handiwork.

Nicole Williams

#69. So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.

Susan Sarandon

#70. Is there some kind of rule for when Sam should be a boy and when he's a Wolf?"
"A Wolf lifts his leg and yellows up the snow. A boy has to use the toilet."
"And that will work?"
"Only if he needs to pee.

Anne Bishop

#71. For making Adron human again. It's been a long time. (Tiernan)
Screw you, Tier. (Adron)
Yeah, bro, since when was Adron ever human? More like a festering subspecies of some kind. You know. Like a pimple on the ass of a warthog. (Taryn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#72. I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.

Takeshi Kitano

#73. My initial plan was to spend a year in France, go to some kind of school and learn a bit of French. I went a year in an American college in the outskirts of Strasbourg, but got a glimpse of a real art school, L'Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and enrolled the following year.

John Howe

#74. I do see myself as aiming to foment some kind of revolution.

Martin Firrell

#75. I have to believe I got some kind of say over our lives.

Russell Crowe

#76. I don't read for plot, a story 'about' this or that. There must be some kind of philosophical depth rendered into the language, something happening.

Rachel Kushner

#77. I love character roles. I'm happier in them. I look for roles that have some kind of complexity.

Emily Blunt

#78. There's some kind of dark symbiosis between lunatics and the Postal Service.

Don Novello

#79. When you know the lyrics to a tune, you have some kind of insight as to it's composition. If you don't understand what it's about, you're depriving yourself of being really able to communicate this poem.

Dexter Gordon

#80. What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape, some kind of open-ended freedom.

Naomi Klein

#81. Action-adventure, that genre, only works for me if you can care about the characters. If the hero's not taking some kind of a journey, then there are no stakes - and no stakes, then you don't care if he lives or dies, wins or loses.

Brandon Lee

#82. I mean, what is this life of ours supposed to be for? Are we to spend it identifying each other with catalogues, like tourists in an art gallery? Or are we to try to exchange some kind of a signal, however garbled, before it's too late?

Christopher Isherwood

#83. At the end of their first years, there are few people who would have predicted that Truman would be elected in 1948 or that Reagan would get a second term. It's always premature to make some kind of categorical judgment after the first year in office.

Robert Dallek

#84. When you're younger, the mental strain of being a successful actor, jumping from role to role, and trying to have some kind of personal life, can really be terrible.

Kathy Baker

#85. Felix looked as if he had been given some kind of caped weasel - part gift, part insult, part utter confusion. Thank you, I think.

Gail Carriger

#86. I think people from Northern Ireland have some kind of unspoken general feeling of what it is to be around segregation. You have an awareness of it because you know how much grief it's caused.

Jamie Dornan

#87. Let's quit our jobs and fuck all day."
"Works for me. Think somebody will subsidize that? Maybe we could apply for some kind of research grant," she said.

Cara McKenna

#88. What in the world is this abomination?"
Lissa, only slightly more tactful, asked, "Adrian, is this some kind of joke?

Richelle Mead

#89. Some kind of fun lasts longer than others.

Betty Hutton

#90. I don't think about growing old," she said.
"I know you don't. That's one of the things I admire about you, Alice. You have some kind of boundless faith in the future. You never give up."
"I suppose I'm an optimist.

Richard Yates

#91. I'm this thing that emerged from it, some kind of miserable Phoenix.

Maria Dahvana Headley

#92. There is only one solitude, and it is great and is not easy to bear, and to almost everyone there come hours when they would gladly exchange it for some kind of communion, however banal and cheap, for the appearance of some slight harmony with the most easily available, with the most undeserving.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#93. My point is that death is more tragic than life, than any life, because every life has hope of some kind.

Shalom Auslander

#94. If we require some kind of sign, or "proof," for our belief in God, then we believe, or place our tust, not in God but in the sign or proof.

Robert L. Short

#95. People who talk a lot about their victimization make me uncomfortable. It's as if they use their suffering as weapons or badges of some kind.

Joy Kogawa

#96. You think people are some kind of pure, white feathered birds flying in the clouds. They're not. They're pigs and they love to wallow in the mud and dirt.

Fannie Flagg

#97. The department shrink spent weeks trying to convince me I was deeply traumatized, but eventually he had to give up, admit I was fine (sort of regretfully; he doesn't get a lot of stabbed cops to play with, I think he was hoping I would have some kind of fancy complex) and let me go back to work.

Tana French

#98. There used to be a time - it isn't so much the case now - that vegetarianism was some kind of religion, and either you belong or you don't belong.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#99. I'll do something, get into some kind of work where talk don't count. Maybe I'll just be a mechanic in a shop. I don't know. I guess I don't care much. I just want to work and keep quiet. That's all I've got in mind.

Sherwood Anderson

#100. I get to do some kind of artwork almost everyday and it just so happens that I can pay the bills and support my family while doing it.

William Webb