The Coens both give you direction, and then it's up to you to kind of figure out the music of what they're saying.

It was kind of a decompression - from straight alcohol to mixed drinks to wine to spritzers - and then you're out.

There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.

My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.

I am a relationship girl. That's kind of just how I'm made... When you're in my life, it's actually very contained.

We as songwriters are in the same position as a professional fisherman. Our fishing grounds are kind of fished out.

The love of God has been described as the highest, noblest, strongest kind of love and the most joyous to the soul.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side. I start off kind of in love and then I leave love and I'm single.

What comes after victory? Why do people value victory so much? What is 'glory'? What kind of victory is 'glorious'?

The Pearly Gates. Am I the only one who finds it odd that Heaven has gates? What kind of neighborhood is Heaven in?

A term like capitalism is incredibly slippery, because there's such a range of different kinds of market economies.

Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

I'm not a wanderer, which is funny because I'm on tour half the time. I'm a home, hearth and family kind of person.

I was not emotionally mature enough to accept any kind of success when I was young. I needed to go that long route.

I don't know how people do it these days - paparazzi and that kind of thing. That's something I can't even imagine.

Every new social structure strives to come up with some kind of mythology of divine origin for its values and aims.

I am a thinned-skinned type. I am very sensitive, very emotional. Vulnerability is kind of always a part of my day.

When you're hiding behind a character all the time, as soon as you have to be yourself, you feel kind of terrified.

When I'm hitting, I'd play for nothing. When I'm not, any kind of money I receive makes me feel as if I'm stealing.

I kind of left everyone behind in Australia - all my friends and my family and I had to break up with my boyfriend.

I'm not really in a hurry to ever wear a neck brace. That's why I'm kind of positive about it, because I'm healthy.

[Contemporary writer] could be a kind of [Samuel] Beckett who would not be felt to be totally committed to despair.

I feel like the high-concept shows that have some kind of gimmick tend not to be the hit classic shows of all time.

It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction.

One must read all writers twice--the good as well as the bad. The one kind will be recognized; the other, unmasked.

Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.

Compromise is part and parcel of making a movie. It's a question of the kinds of compromises that you have to make.

I don't just want to do something that is purely stuck in a genre box. I would like to have the kind of autonomy...

I tend to build bulk and muscle easily, and running seems to make sure I stay kind of stringy, if that makes sense.

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

At the moment, I'm focusing on these kind of "small" films - maybe after that, I will make bigger films in English.

After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.

When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?

You really have to begin by figuring out what kind of person you are. The tip is to really take a look at yourself.

It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum.

I think chemistry is finding something you love about a person and then transfering it to an in love kind of thing.

Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, if you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind.

Working with younger artists kind of tests your judgment. You're not always right, but when you are, it's exciting.

This was the kind of job that made legends out of hunters. Of course, to be a legend, you generally had to be dead.

In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all

Conceptual art is entirely word-bound. It is, in fact, the kind of art that is exhausted in its verbal description.

I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful, but it's nothing, and yet it's incredible.

I think we're going to have to take a hard look about what more we can do to prevent this kind of lone wolf attack.

I'm kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won't submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.

The best kind of design isn't necessarily an object, a space, or a structure: it's a process- dynamic and adaptable.

You can feel better about yourself in a very short period of time depending on the kind of magic that you are doing.

It seems like everything I do musically I tend to lose a few fans and gain a few fans, and it all kind of evens out.

I have to teach myself. I kind of wish I'd continued with my education, but that's something I can do in the future.

Let nothing be said about anyone unless it passes through the three sieves: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?

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