Sometimes Quotes

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don't know who or what, maybe myself.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament.

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.

I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

Sometimes you can do things for people other than yourself.

I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India.

I sometimes lament the fact that I do not have the benefit of a complete and ailment free body structure.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

There are some actor secrets you keep sometimes, and you want to keep.

Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.

Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.

Sometimes I still can't believe my luck.

Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.

People really do spend a lot of money on their pets - sometimes more then themselves.

You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.

I think we match up with anybody because our pitching. In a short series you run your big three out there or four out there. That generally is what wins a series - pitching and defense. If we can catch the ball and not give away any runs like we do sometimes.

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.

Sometimes you move publicly, sometimes privately. Sometimes quietly, sometimes at the top of your voice.

I keep thinking I'll enjoy suspense novels, and sometimes I do. I've read about 20 Dick Francis novels.

Sometimes we think of a creature like a person in a suit, but then you have limitations of two eyes and two legs - they have to see and breathe. I got more into puppetry because it offered more possibilities.

Sometimes the intensity and the grind of doing television can wear you down, but at the same time there's something about the repetition, the sheer mass of work that you do that's also liberating.

Well, I think people don't recognise my face because I'm so much older now, but it is astonishing that people can recognise a voice. I do sometimes get recognised, and indeed a lot of people do come and see me.

Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are. I am sometimes ten or twelve people a day, and sometimes four or five people an hour!

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.

Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth.

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.

Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.

I think three or four years ago, people would have said my biggest weakness was that sometimes I was awkward on television, with my stammer, but I think they'd say that much less now.

I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.

Making movies is difficult and you get disorientated sometimes - even when you're working with fantastic talent.

Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself and the way that I am growing older. I have eye bags and some people have proposed to me to take them out but I said no.

Nobody can be exactly me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there.

Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.

Sometimes I just want to write a really intense love scene. But I can't do that in my books for teens, or parents will complain - believe me, I've tried.

Sometimes the most happy people in life are the ones with nothing. We can't lose sight of the little things in life that should make us the happiest.

People sometimes hold themselves back because they want to use racism as an excuse for them not being able to achieve what they want to achieve.

I juggle a lot of different balls and sometimes I don't know how I manage to keep them all up in the air, but I do!

Sometimes I'll flip through a magazine and do a double take when I see myself in it, it's just crazy!

I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that.

In life, people sometimes make rotten deals.

For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.

The pressures to get the story first, if wrong, are greater sometimes than the pressures to get the story right, if late.

Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.

I think that three-act fundamentalism in film culture is a problem sometimes, because it's almost too obvious, or it's too expected. And it's not the only way to fill two hours, or to phrase things, or to order thoughts, or order ideas.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

I like to be fascinated by the people I photograph. Sometimes I don't admire them but I'm interested in them.

Sometimes you surprise the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper surprises you. In my career, I tried to do more of the first than the second.

Sometimes you get submerged by emotion. I think it's very important to express it - which doesn't necessarily mean hitting someone.

Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason.

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

Sometimes, you get portrayed the way you don't want to be portrayed.

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

You know, the hard thing about audiences not liking what a character does is that they sometimes take it out on the actor personally. That's something that you know when you become an actor or actress, but it's always hard to deal with when it actually happens.