Sort Quotes - page 95

Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess. (John Cusack)
I don't think the Bonzo Dog could have evolved in America, nor could the old Nice: because of their musical discipline. This is one thing that British groups do have, a sort of discipline. Sometimes it can get a bit soulless, but on the whole I think it's preferable to the American alternative. View quote
Jon Lord
Psychopaths [make] the world go around... society [is] an expression of that particular sort of madness... I've always believed society to be a fundamentally rational thing, but what if it isn't? What if it is built on insanity? View quote
Jon Ronson
My father was a civil servant, fairly sort of middle ranking, low to middle ranking. He worked almost entirely in what was then called Administrative Labour, dealing with employment and unemployment issues. View quote
John Hume
Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. View quote
Jonathan Carroll
You go through your 20s sort of like a chrysalis in many ways, stretching into your own skin and trying to bust out of a cocoon. View quote
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
Proof itself, of any sort, is impossible, without an axiom (as Godel proved). Thus faith in God is a prerequisite for all proof. View quote
Jordan Peterson
Human beings are the sort of creature who has to know what to do when they don't know what to do. That's very paradoxical, and what we do is we prepare to do everything. We're on guard, and we prepare to do everything. It's very very stressful, but also something that's very engaging. It's something that heightens consciousness. View quote
Jordan Peterson
The power of story and the power of a well-crafted film or television show is really all you need to speak to people. I think Hollywood is sort of catching up to that. View quote
Jordan Peele
People called '28 Days' and '28 Weeks' zombie movies, and they're not! It's some sort of virus; they're not dead. View quote
George A. Romero
I was a big and un-ironic fan of Dear Abby when I was a kid in Chicago. I think I sort of internalized her. So I have this inner Abby: cranky, proper, folksy yet scathing, with a beehive hairdo. But that's my issue. (George Saunders)
The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in it, and sort of midwife that mystery into the story in such a way that it isn't damaged in the process, and may even get heightened or refined. View quote
George Saunders
In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really comfortable with contradictory ideas. In other words, wisdom might be, seem to be, two contradictory ideas both expressed at their highest level and just let to sit in the same cage sort of, vibrating. So, I think as a writer, I'm really never sure of what I really believe. View quote
George Saunders
When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own; and this is especially the case with those persons whose knowledge of the world is of such sort that it results in extreme distrust of men. View quote
Joseph Farrell
Anita, I have just come the comforting conclusion that I'll have to paint acres and acres of water color landscapes before I will look for even a passably fair one. After about ten attempts - I certainly have to laugh at myself - It's like feeling around in the dark - thought I knew what I was going to try to do but I find I don't - and guess I'll only find out by slaving away at it. I feel - like a wreck - Have been working like mad all day - and you know how deliciously disgusted with every thing one can be - when the sun begins to go down - and one has been working ones head off all day. It gives me the sensation I used to have when I was a youngster and was going away from home on the train - It is a very special sort of sick feeling. View quote
Georgia O'Keeffe
The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you. View quote
Judi Dench
These kids [of the current generation] have no fear of technology ... sort of like I have no fear of a refrigerator. View quote
Don Tapscott
The ending is one of my blackest, utterly without hope of any sort. View quote
Donna Leon
Fanatics end by subverting their own argument. For instance, animal rights activists have some point, and many people feel sympathy with them. But animal rights fanatics do not have a point. They are the sort of people who threaten human beings in their effort to 'defend' animals. View quote
Douglas Murray
I guess, as a director, you sort of take the script, and you find ways to interpret it. View quote
Duncan Jones
Anorexia was my attempt to have control over my body and manipulate my body and starve my body and shape my body. It was not a very good relationship. It was the sort of relationship my father had to my body. It was a tyrannical, "you'll do what I tell you" relationship. (Eve Ensler)
I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some sort of a postmodern coop. View quote
Aleksandar Hemon
Plays are wonderfully different than short stories, first because it's a story that's on a stage, but there's a different sort of tension that appears on stage - you get to see your characters in a different way - like with lights. View quote
Amy Bloom
Oh, I wish I organized my books. But I don't. I'm not an organized person. The best I can do is put the books I really like in one sort of general area, and poetry in another. View quote
Elizabeth Strout
I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one another. View quote
Eleanor Catton