Tended To Quotes

#1. Once I moved to Chicago and started trying to get acting jobs, I just tended to book more things that were comedically based than anything else. I never had the preconceived notion, 'I will be a comedic actor.' I just thought, 'I'll go into acting and see what kind of work I can get.'

Steve Carell

#2. I'd sworn off men, or really boys, because those were the only type of males I tended to attract.

Alyssa Rose Ivy

#3. France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view.

Francois Hollande

#4. We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too "political," "merely" oral and thus unreliable.

Adrienne Rich

#5. When you have been writing for a lot of years, you have to make an effort not to start repeating yourself. It occurred to me that I tended to tread certain ground automatically, because it was comfortable, but that there were areas I avoided automatically because they made me nervous.

Merrill Markoe

#6. In her defense, her helicoptering tended to revolve around making sure that Dee could take care of herself. LEARN HOW TO TAKE OUT THE TRASH OR I WILL KILL YOU. LOVE MOM.

Karin Slaughter

#7. The press in New York has tended to favor New Society in every period, and to take it seriously, if only because it provides news.

Tom Wolfe

#8. Typography tended to alter language from a means of perception and exploration to a portable commodity.

Marshall McLuhan

#9. Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Right-wing movements, however puritanical and repressive the realities they usher in, have an erotic surface. Certainly Nazism is "sexier" than communism.

Susan Sontag

#10. Good luck tended to avoid me.

Stephenie Meyer

#11. He'd never much cared for the need to believe one people were better than another. One on one, most of them seemed all right. It was only when you gathered any of them in groups they tended to be stupid.

Jonathan Maberry

#12. Map-making had never been a precise art on the Discworld. People tended to start off with good intentions and then get so carried away with the spouting whales, monsters, waves and other twiddly bits of cartographic furniture that the often forgot to put the boring mountains and rivers in at all.

Terry Pratchett

#13. He makes me laugh, Mick! He tended to turn up when we were having lunch and entertain us all. He bought an Enigma machine! I've never worked with a producer who was more famous than everyone put together.

Saffron Burrows

#14. A lot of people that embark on spiritual endeavors tended to, especially in the '60s and '70s, they tended to give up what they had before and cut themselves off from their lives, previous life as it were. But, I don't think that one should do that.

Dave Davies

#15. Where we tended to be judgmental, we became more judgmental of ourselves in our spiritual practice.

Jack Kornfield

#16. It seemed weird calling a teenager 'sir' but I'd learned to be careful with immortals. They tended to get offended easily. Then, they blew stuff up.

Rick Riordan

#17. My own fantasies of what life would be like at 24 tended to the more spectacular.

Joan Didion

#18. Everything," a journalist observed, "tended to represent the home of a man who has battled hard with the fortunes of life, and whose hard experience had taught him to enjoy whatever of success belongs to him, rather in solid substance than in showy display.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#19. They tended to be stolid, slovenly, heavy, and to my eyes effeminate - not in the sense of delicacy, etc., but in just the opposite sense: a gross, bland fleshiness, a bovinity without point or edge.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#20. If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one,

Arthur Conan Doyle

#21. There was just something very crystalizing about bullets whining over your head; it tended to put questions of morality in perspective.

Evan Currie

#22. I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

Hunter S. Thompson

#23. But there was something about the largest object in the solar system vanishing that tended to disrupt normal schedules.

James Dashner

#24. In my twenties, my pleasures tended to be physical. In my thirties, my pleasures tended to be intellectual. I can't say which was more exquisite.

Steve Kangas

#25. Too often, we have tended to fall into a trap of creating plain hamburgers.

Tadashi Yanai

#26. One tended to lose one's bearings in the presence of willful and persistent acts of craziness, and the more gentle the act, the crazier it seemed, as if rage and violence, being closer to the norm, were easier to accommodate.

Tom Robbins

#27. Lardo was getting on in years, and his big belly tended to slow him down a bit.

Sarah Weeks

#28. I naturally own a lot of very old magazines. And I enjoy going to old magazines because the advertisements in those magazines tended to have thousands of words of copy in them.

John Hodgman

#29. Even in college I tended to get cast in the comedies more. It was what I liked doing.

Jenna Fischer

#30. An Outside Context Problem was the sort of thing most civilisations encountered just once, and which they tended to encounter rather in the same way a sentence encountered a full stop.

Iain Banks

#31. The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.

Alan Kay

#32. Death had tried fiery steeds and skeletal horses in the past, and found them impractical, especially the fiery ones, which tended to set light to their own bedding and stand in the middle of it looking embarrassed. Death

Terry Pratchett

#33. Lord, save him from those with good intentions, for they tended to leave the worst damage.

J. Fally

#34. Biology has tended to be an observational science, and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past, but I hate to predict the future on that.

Jeremiah P. Ostriker

#35. I tended to be skeptical of anything that couldn't be measured, written down, and independently verified across a series of double-blind tests. But this was hard data. Lola's heart beat fastest for me.

Max Barry

#36. Eventually the girl would discover that sadists tended to be politer than regular Doms - at least, when not in a scene. After all, if a sadist was nasty, then how would he get anyone to play with him?

Cherise Sinclair

#37. He was vain and tended to surround himself with intellectual and moral pygmies.

Stephen L. Carter

#38. Most of Set's forces were running towards our boat, screaming and throwing rocks (which tended to fall down and hit them, but no one says demons are bright).

Rick Riordan

#39. I tended to hold love hostage in my heart because, if expressed, I feared it might abandon me as many people in my life had.

Patricia Cornwell

#40. Humans tended to use the terms free and freedom to indicate states of being that were anything but.

Robert Repino

#41. Under stress, women tended to cry it away. Men tended to get angry and lash out.

Craig Alanson

#42. Today, teachers tend to look for their students' intellectual strengths, so they can cultivate them. But a century ago, professors tended to look for their students' moral weaknesses, so they could correct them.

David Brooks

#43. The grass is greener on the other side because someone tended to it.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#44. The truth is that a lot of plays aren't political at all. In American theater history, political theater has tended to crop up when there's a crisis, a national crisis.

Frank Rich

#45. He hoped she would not provide his family with any of her poems, which tended to use words like nipple.

Jean Thompson

#46. You would have to say of John Howard's government that he has tended to go after things with a fair degree of determination, and I would have thought.. I don't see any reason why that should suddenly disappear now that he has control of both houses.

Chris Corrigan

#47. He was through with this conversation. As a rule, they tended to avoid questions like "How sane are we?" and "Do our lives have meaning?" The need for avoidance was acute and apparent to both of them.

Michael Chabon

#48. But we had a pretty diversified portfolio of businesses around the world and things tended to offset each other. But one or two years ago, we had a lot of things happening at the same time.

Jim Cantalupo

#49. We are quite a way off before people travel around the world without cash in their pockets. The growth of plastic and electronic transactions have tended to impact traveller's cheques rather than cash.

Lloyd Dorfman

#50. I've tended to play the outcast. I don't know, more nerdy types.

Tina Majorino

#51. Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to become a manikin on which the toilet of education is to be draped in order to show the fit or misfit of the clothes. The object of study is the garment, not the figure.

Henry Adams

#52. Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of the past.

David Christian

#53. Most people considered options a good thing, the American way, but one tended to squander those choices, or to choose badly, and then to call a bad outcome fate, as if the choices made had nothing to do with it.

Scott Lasser

#54. I was one of those kids who tended to stay in on Saturday nights. My mother used to come and say, 'Why don't you go to the dance with the boys?' And I'm going, 'No, I'm perfectly happy.' I think my parents thought I was definitely weird.

Ridley Scott

#55. Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity, and our soldiers brought home glory and victory, and thank God that they did. But it led us to romanticize it to some extent.

Neil Sheehan

#56. Previous seekers of empire tended to assume that they already understood the world. Conquest merely utilised and spread their view of the world.

Yuval Noah Harari

#57. I'd found out that if you pushed people away hard enough, they tended to go.

Morgan Matson

#58. The foundations set up as tax shelters by the wealthy tended to spend as much money glorifying the donors' names and providing cushy jobs for their friends

Anne Stuart

#59. My father was always Labour, and my mother was always Conservative, so I tended to sort of go in the middle.

Peter Hook

#60. Those types of people tended to underestimate the tenacity of the well and truly fucked up individuals of this world.

Wildbow

#61. I tended to write the book in these bursts of two or three months at a time. So I would know, or at least feel securely, that for the next few months I was at least going to have a few hours a day.

Chad Harbach

#62. A superhero spliced criminals from victims. In Gowanus things tended to be more mixed up.

Jonathan Lethem

#63. The office of Master of Traditions had fallen inevitably on Ponder Stibbons, who tended to get all the jobs that required someone who thought that things should happen on time and that numbers should add up.

Terry Pratchett

#64. Apologies tended to give him migraines, which was why he avoided them. (Eoin)

Annie Nicholas

#65. Nietzsche tended to equate the memorable with the painful.

Harold Bloom

#66. I certainly have never been an actor who can play the Everyman guy - or, I don't tend to get those parts. I've tended to play eccentrics. I've played a lot of villains, of course.

Christopher Walken

#67. William glanced at the captain. The way she sat suggested she was tense - and that she disliked the princess on sight. William wasn't sure why, but he knew that women tended to pick up on subtle points men missed. Or maybe she just felt dowdy when compared to the princess.

Christopher G. Nuttall

#68. I've tended to find that myths of the near future give people the ability to really kind of explore the present, so say for example if look at William Gibson and his book Neuromancer or if you look at J.G. Ballard or Samuel Delaney those are probably three of my favorite writers in that genre.

DJ Spooky

#69. People tended to shop and frequent restaurants in their comfort-zone.

J.D. Robb

#70. When I began to cover songs for YouTube, they all tended to be in the super pop-genre.. as in, smash-hit songs. My writing process was heavily influenced by this - I went from a more heavy punk rock style to straight up sugary-sweet pop.

Alex Goot

#71. People - especially the geeks who created it - have tended to look at the Internet as something that's hermetically sealed: there's the Internet and the rest of the world. But that's not how people want to use the Internet. They want to use it as a way of better navigating the real world.

Alex Steffen

#72. He was kind of like a big puppy dog that just wanted to be loved but tended to hump your leg to get your attention.

Kathleen Brooks

#73. Once information slipped the bonds of gravity and friction, it tended to gather where it was most valuable.

H.W. Brands

#74. One of the many difficult things about women was that they tended to pick the most unsuitable times to tell you something they considered to be important, and then became irrationally upset when you failed to remember it.

Ruth Downie

#75. An atmosphere ultraviolet rays from the sun, even from a weak sun, would have tended to break apart any incipient bonds made by molecules. And yet right there" - she tapped the stromatolites - "you have organisms almost at the surface. It's a puzzle.

Bill Bryson

#76. The parents of rich kids tended to be more patriotic because they had more to lose if the country went under.

Charles Bukowski

#77. The ritual of families watching TV together passed into antiquity around the time I was my son's age; that was when households tended to have a single television and when the choices of what to watch were manageable.

Steve Erickson

#78. Bess hadn't ever been good with change. She'd never been good with taking leaps of faith, or risks or changes. When something worked, she tended to stick with it.
Even when something didn't.

Megan Hart

#79. I don't think Hawk or I are operating on emotional whim. It's just the way we experience things sometimes needs to get translated sort of promptly into a, ah, course of action. So we have tended to bypass the meditative circuit."
"Wow," Hawk said.

Robert B. Parker

#80. As an engineer, I tended to maintain my own equipment along with developing the processes for it.

Brian Krzanich

#81. What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights.

Kate Bush

#82. But with 9/11, we found that people tended to come back to the networks and the people who had been our core viewers in the past came back and they have stayed with us.

Bob Schieffer

#83. It was a little weird that they were friends. But then, maybe freaks just tended to find each other.

James Patterson

#84. Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my life.

Sheena Easton

#85. I tended to lean toward character work. I love to disguise myself.

Hal Holbrook

#86. Good luck tended to avoid me. Charlie left first, off to the police station that was his wife and family.

Stephenie Meyer

#87. What were you thinking?" Bast said with an odd mixture of confusion and concern.
Coat was a long while in answering. "I tend to think too much Bast. My greatest successes tended to come when I stopped thinking and simply did what felt right, even if there was no explantion for what I did.

Patrick Rothfuss

#88. I always feel sad for the girl that I was, because it never occurred to me that my mother might comfort me. She has never told me she loved me, and I never assumed she did. She tended to me. She administrated me.

Gillian Flynn

#89. He suspected that any life form that inflicted unnecessary pain tended to find its consciousness eroding. Without consciousness to reflect back upon life, all life might lose its sense of purpose.

Frank Herbert

#90. 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

#91. After all, I wasn't even sure if the ancient causes belonged to me in the first place because being born into a belief tended to make me feel more like I belonged to it instead.

J.D. Brewer

#92. I was surprised to learn that research showed arranged couples tended to be happier in the long run.

Aziz Ansari

#93. Flying in his dreams was an exhilarating, breathtaking experience, sometimes literally, that tended to leave reality wanting, like riding a roller coaster compared to mowing the lawn.

Sol Luckman

#94. I don't think readers of Mann have overlooked the fact that he was a great ironist, but they have tended to see the irony in particular parts of the novella, and to miss it in others.

Philip Kitcher

#95. Was I in a nativity play? I think I was an angel; I was a very blonde child, so I tended to get typecast. I have a vague memory of wearing wings.

Hannah Murray

#96. I think in my twenties I tended to think of all people as sort of more or less alike. In now think that people are really different in all these subtle ways that are very important.

Peter Thiel

#97. She was a danger to his hard-earned neutrality. Thinking about her tended to give him an unwanted hitch in his lungs.

Marissa Meyer

#98. During the three decades of its existence, the effectiveness of the United Nations has, on the whole, tended to decrease, particularly in the field of peace and security and, more generally, all issues in which the developed countries feel they have important stakes.

Gunnar Myrdal

#99. Jesus tended to honor the losers of this world, not the winners. Our modern culture extravagantly rewards beauty, athletic skill, wealth, and artistic achievement, qualities which seemed to impress Jesus not at all.

Philip Yancey

#100. She knew. She knew how quickly things could break. You did the things you could. You tended to the world for the world's sake. You hoped you would be safe. But still she knew. It could come crashing down and there was nothing you could do.

Patrick Rothfuss