Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Salter

West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view.

In Germany, actors tend to be more laid-back and take orders from the director: 'Tell me what you want.' I'm more into collaboration. So are Americans.

Andy Serkis

When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth.

Nobu Matsuhisa

When I'm dining out privately, I tend to avoid fine-dining venues; I like things to feel casual.

Laurie Helgoe

I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan.

Timothy Noah

Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure.

Mark Noll

When I'm thinking like a historian, I tend to be a little depressed. But when I'm thinking like a Christian, I tend to be optimistic.

I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

All actors tend to be the same messed-up people.

First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader.

Tim Rice

Very few artistic partnerships last more than 10 years, and if they do they tend to go down the tubes.

Kat Edmonson

When I tend to belt, it kind of reminds me of like a more '60s girl doo-wop kind of belting.

Jason Bateman

I have a tendency to evolve into William Shatner, with my big fat face.

Naoto Kan

I tend to agree with many aspects of President Obama's policies.

My ideas tend to arise out of nowhere when I'm not intentionally trying to think of something.

Chris Adrian

My natural tendency is to write about zombie bunnies, but one of my first writing teachers got incorporated into my writing superego, and I keep hearing his admonition to make things feel more real the weirder they get.

Idina Menzel

I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

Anthony Hopkins

I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.

Edmund White

Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.

John Updike

A seventeenth-century house tends to be short on frills like hallways and closets; you must improvise.

John Updike

The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.

A lot of times you come against actors who come from a different direction, and you tend to meet in the middle.

Emily Mortimer

I'm always drawn to the thing I think I can't possibly do, because I tend to be better when I think I can't possibly do something than I am when I'm pretty sure I can do something.

Ray Anderson

I don't think it's that simple. But historically, there have been some 'copycat' tendencies in the league.

John Gibbons

I don't think it is anything serious. He went back to Toronto with tenderness in his forearm. It should just be one start.

Joel Robuchon

I am a gourmand. I like to eat. When I have something that I like, I tend to have too much of it. That is a guilty pleasure.

George R. R. Martin

I tend to write one character at a time. But I don't write the entirety of one character at a time.

It can tend to snowball if you let it go.

Linda Martin

Lacy tends to be calming. She is not part of the therapy, but she's therapeutic.

Mary Roach

All of my books tend to be about things going on in labs that you wouldn't really expect.

Ashleigh Banfield

I thought they were sassy, and I tend to be a little sassy.

Gary Hume

A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic.

Ian Hart

We tend to think about fascism in terms of the Second World War.