Top 100 Sometimes An Quotes
#1. I like to imagine that all the choices you make during the day that you're doing a particular scene are going to feed into the creation of that scene. It's not a movie-by-movie or a part-by-part basis. It's a day-by-day thing, and sometimes an hour-by-hour thing.
Thomas Jane
#2. Each implementation of human effort, however minute the overall result may be, is summed up in the gesture of the sower - sometimes an awe-inspiring gesture.
Emile Galle
#3. I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.
Chris Lowe
#4. An actor equals, sometimes, an entitled baby. People take care of things for me, and they pay greater attention to things than I was ever capable of doing. But in the last few years, I have learned a great deal more about taking care of things. I pay my own bills now.
Christian Slater
#5. Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.
Norman Vincent Peale
#6. Sometimes an unimaginative mind can imagine the most unimaginable
Munia Khan
#7. The heart is a pump, xxx weak and fickle as any other machine, and sometimes an embolism of indifference stops affection's flow.
James K. Morrow
#8. I consider in my own mind whether thou art a spirit, sometimes, or sometimes an evil imp, said the lama, smiling slowly.
Rudyard Kipling
#9. He knew he probably sounded like an idiot to the scholars, but sometimes an idiot's perspective ended up getting more things done.
James Rollins
#10. Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
Austin Phelps
#11. To be silent is sometimes an art, yet not so great a one as certain people would have us believe, who are wisest they are most silent.
Christoph Martin Wieland
#12. I'm sometimes a cartoonist, and there's an audience for that, and I'm sometimes an illustrator, and there's an audience for that.
Adrian Tomine
#13. So, sleep deprivation, and sometimes an insomnia, which is a little bit of a different form, but just getting a lack of sleep, can lead to a number of different decrements.
Shelby Harris
#14. Sometimes an imitation of love can be pretty damn convincing.
Lisa Kleypas
#15. I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history..
Willem De Kooning
#16. I wouldn't go so far as to say I've got a plan. But I've got an idea. It's a very useful thing sometimes, an idea. - Superintendent Battle
Agatha Christie
#17. Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
Julie Burchill
#18. Sometimes an ethnographic inquiry will lead to new ways to use an existing technology or will generate new technologies.
Katie Hafner
#19. Sometimes an artist is lost and needs to find a new direction for himself or his music.
David Ruffin
#20. Forgive me. Sometimes an answer can vary with a context, if you follow me
John Le Carre
#21. A wise man does not always admit to everything he knows. And sometimes an overly-credulous friend can be a source of mild amusement."
~Sherlock Holmes
Stephanie Osborn
#22. Life is not meant to be an interstate highway. It's a winding mountain road with hills and dips, stop signs and school zones. Let friends and family be the data for your GPS satellite feed, and never forget that sometimes an unexpected detour leads to a hidden miracle.
Emily March
#23. Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical.
Richard P. Feynman
#24. Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.
Jodi Picoult
#25. What's so amazing about 'All in the Family' is sometimes an entire act was one camera shot. It was all about characters.
Adam Green
#26. Sometimes an adventure is a mundane thing. A trip to the shore with your best friend. Learning you can laugh in unearthly ways.
Rose Christo
#27. I love anything leopard print, but sometimes an all over print can be a bit much.
Ashley Madekwe
#28. Sometimes an old idea gets relegated to the back of the line in the mad delight of a new idea, one you've never had before, and that you write fast in the thrill of the new. No rules. Just stories, and you tell as many of them as you can.
Neil Gaiman
#29. Well, no," you have to say, "your brain is sometimes an explanation; it's never an excuse.
Frances E. Jensen
#30. Sometimes an unexpected wave comes along, sucks you up and refuses to spit you back out
Colleen Hoover
#31. Prayer changes things. Prayer changes us. Prayer changes life. Sometimes an event has been manifested that needs to be stopped, midair. Don't pray just when you're in trouble. Pray every day. Surround yourself with prayer. You never know when you might need an extra miracle.
Melody Beattie
#32. I think, basically, I am an actor. Sometimes I'm an actor who's writing and sometimes an actor who's directing, but I think if I'm forced to fill out a form for my tax return, 'actor' is the first thing I write down.
Chris Eigeman
#34. Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes an agent that leads to failure.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#35. Sometimes an actor performs a character, but sometimes an actor just performs. With writing, I don't think it's performing a character, really, if the character you're performing is yourself. I don't see that as playing a role. It's just appearing in public.
Joan Didion
#36. Human can surprise you sometimes. An unpredictable species, Homo sapiens
Katherine Applegate
#37. But it is true that sometimes an enveloping darkness aids one to clearer vision; as in a panorama building, for example, where the obscurity about the entrance prepares one better for the climax, and gives the scene depicted a more real and vivid appearance.
Pierre Loti
#38. [David] Salle's earlier work had been marked by a kind of spaciousness, sometimes an emptiness, such as surrealist works are prone to. But here everything was condensed, impacted, mired. The paintings were like an ugly mood.
Janet Malcolm
#39. It depends, because sometimes an action role can be very demanding, and sometimes a dialogue-driven character can be very demanding, and vice versa. It depends.
Benicio Del Toro
#40. Then everyone would retreat for a nap, after which we would have coffee and cake, sometimes an argument.
Aleksandar Hemon
#41. Sometimes, an apology sets free a part of you that you didn't even realize was caged ... and forgiveness destroys the cage.
Sanjo Jendayi
#42. Sometimes an accident can be an unhappy womans best friend
Stephen King
#44. Sometimes an answer not yet blowin' in the wind is stirring in the breeze.
Robert Breault
#45. SYCOPHANT- One who approaches Greatness on his belly so that he may not be commanded to turn and be kicked. He is sometimes an editor.
Ambrose Bierce
#46. Just because something's legible doesn't means it communicates. More importantly, it doesn't mean it communicates the right thing. So, what is the message sent before somebody actually gets into the material? And I think that's sometimes an overlooked area.
David Carson
#47. I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.
Ishmael Reed
#49. Sometimes an angel is found in the dark.
K. Webster
#51. Sometimes an opponent stops breathing, and you realise something drastic has happened and they are trying not to let on. Or they go quiet, or they get fidgety. After a while you pick these things up and become more alert to them.
Viswanathan Anand
#52. Sometimes an unimportant incident is capable of turning everything beautiful into a moment of anxiety. We insist on seeing the mote in the eye and forget about the mountains, the fields and the olive groves.
Paulo Coelho
#54. An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement ...
Arthur Conan Doyle
#56. It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
Philip K. Dick
#57. Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
Henry Ward Beecher
#58. To paraphrase Stephen King, sometimes an accident can be an unhappy woman's best friend. Put
MaryJanice Davidson
#59. Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.
Jane Austen
#60. Sometimes an actor doesn't sell an idea 100 percent. It just sounds like something that's coming out of their head. You can hear the gears whirring and they're trying to think of what the smart approach is to getting a line across.
David Gordon Green
#61. Sometimes an interviewer will look at me and say, 'You're bright!' They're actually surprised I might be bright.
Kirk Douglas
#62. And I need to hear that there are situations where logic and reason don't apply, that sometimes an ugly action is a necessary one.
Erin Bowman
#63. Past and Present I know well; each is a friend and sometimes an enemy to me. But it is the quiet, beckoning Future, an absolute stranger, with whom I have fallen madly in love.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#64. Sometimes an obstacle is placed in front of us by God for the purpose of upgrading our vision and experiencing our dream at a higher level. The obstacle can only be here by permission of God, so it has to help us become what He is seeing about us.
Graham Cooke
#65. Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.
James Baker
#66. Sometimes an actor will stumble on the joke, and I'm right on them. Back it up before the audience hears the bad version of the joke, because humor is 90% surprise. If they know what's coming, they won't laugh as hard.
James Burrows
#67. Sometimes an understanding silence was better than a bunch of meaningless words.
Mia Sheridan
#68. Sometimes an organization doesn't need a solution; it just needs clarity.
Ben Horowitz
#69. Sometimes an alien would stand with a moose, not because of solidarity, but because of accidentally doing it.
Tao Lin
#70. It's strange how a plan can unfold sometimes - an umbrella shooting up at the touch of a button and extending out in all directions quickly, effortlessly.
Elissa Janine Hoole
#71. Sometimes, an inability to believe in Satan reflects a larger inability to believe in a spiritual plane at all.
John Ortberg
#72. Sometimes an unexpected chord change can be the difference between a good song and a great song.
Gary Talley
#73. Sometimes, an afternoon spent in bed with someone can be the most important thing in the universe.
Malcolm Wilson
#74. Sometimes an artist's vision may get blurred when subjected to a committee because an artwork is usually an expression of something unconscious that is better left in the realm of one person's unconscious if it is to speak to another person's unconscious.
Philippa Perry
#75. He nodded again and I was tempted to tell him the rule of silence: sometimes an awkward silence is actually far less awkward than forced conversation.
Christina Lauren
#76. Sometimes an impulse is more rewarding than a calculation.
Dale Renton
#77. To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed.
Phyllis McGinley
#78. People look at technology as sometimes an end to things, and it isn't an end in certain cases. In the movie business, the act of creating in the art form of movies, the craft of movies is completely technical, and that's all it is.
George Lucas
#79. The endings for all my characters seem sufficiently human and messy for me to feel comfortable with them. In some ways they have only moved an inch, but sometimes an inch is a great distance.
David O. Russell
#80. Sometimes an hour of Fate's serenest weather Strikes through our changeful sky its coming beams; Somewhere above us, in elusive ether, Waits the fulfilment of our dearest dreams.
Bayard Taylor
#81. Sometimes an answer doesn't come in one go. Sometimes it has so many layers to it that it takes time for the person to tell you what they really mean.
Carolyn Jess-Cooke
#82. Being disappointed is sometimes an inevitable outcome that no one can control.
Noelle Scaggs
#83. Sometimes, we use the term 'growth' as a number and sometimes as an abstraction, but the underlying implication is always that, if the country grows at a certain rate, at the end there will be a pot of gold for everyone.
Jamshyd Godrej
#84. Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.
Honore De Balzac
#85. Sometimes I don't feel like an actor. Sometimes I speak about it like it was another job, and then I go, 'Wait a minute - I am one!'
Michael Keaton
#86. sometimes you try so hard to fit in that you almost forget it's all an act.
Holly Madison
#88. Sometimes people back themselves into corners where they think they have to make kind of an engraved-in-stone decision.
Emily Yoffe
#89. We do not like our friends the worse because they sometimes give us an opportunity to rail at them heartily. Their faults reconcile us to their virtues.
William Hazlitt
#90. A funny thing about charisma: the same people who can make you feel an inch tall can also make you feel huge, fortified, sometimes almost simultaneously.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#91. I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.
Mandy Patinkin
#92. Brazilians need to work on their own national pride. I always think that they suffer from national low-self esteem. It's a lesser-developed country, and they have struggled so much. Sometimes they have an attitude that, if it's Brazilian, it can't be good.
Amy Irving
#93. Sometimes I feel an obligation to be accessible as a personality, but for me the driving force since the beginning has always been good work, taking risks, trying new things. If the door opens, go through it. Always go forwards.
David Soul
#94. Thus a man will sometimes suffer half an hour of mortal fear with a robber, but once the knife is finally at his throat, even fear vanishes.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#95. Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.
Jay McInerney
#96. I don't like to spend a lot of money on haircuts: I'll sometimes grow my hair and get an acting job and get them to cut it for free. I think for a lady, though, it's okay to spend a lot on a haircut.
Paul Dano
#97. Athletes are used to battling. The public would never learn their names if professional athletes had not shown courage at an early age. They learn they can overcome, but sometimes this becomes a false sense of security that leads them to the edge.
George Vecsey
#98. What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God.
Ernesto Cardenal
#99. Sometimes being an artist is a real drag. It can be incredibly bureaucratic.
Micah Lexier
#100. I believe, sometimes, that the whole world has an aching heart. - Gloria Dump
Kate DiCamillo