Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the… — David K. Shipler Copy Share Image
History tends to take the simplest possible view. As soon as you start to scratch the surface of any historical event, it… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
One of the general considerations about new buildings is that people tend to say that anything new is a monstrosity. And then… — Joseph Rykwert Copy Share Image
As an actor, you tend to live in a really small world, which is not very healthy. It is enriching to go… — Shahid Kapoor Copy Share Image
I paint - I tend more to abstraction - but not as much as I would like to because of time. I… — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
The thing with videogame characters is that they tend to be really undercooked, and people don't take the time to really flesh… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
Brain surgeons are dealing with the very last thread of life, and they have to be very confident, but I think they… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
Working on newspapers, you're writing to a certain length, often very brief pieces; you tend to look for easy forms of humor… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
American audiences tend to underappreciate the British, but 240 years ago they were us: They were the most powerful nation on Earth.… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
I think when it comes to women who write or who fancy ourselves 'hip downtown literati', there is a certain contempt for… — Julie Klausner Copy Share Image
When you get into your 40s, the roles do tend to drop off, and I've seen it happening to friends of mine.… — Keeley Hawes Copy Share Image
I tend not to look at my work after I've done it. In fact, the only time I typically get to review… — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
I now see that is a woman's God-given role to tend to the home and take care of the children: it's just… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I actually don't invest in anything that is social, mobile, deals or ad networks simply because those are areas where there are… — Aaron Patzer Copy Share Image
Historically, we have always seen reversion to the mean. After stocks have had an unusually great 10 or 20 years, they typically… — James O'Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
I'm greedy about cities - I like to form my impressions of them on my own, and on foot as far as… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
I do tend to like movies that challenge me professionally. That's mostly on a smaller scale, when you have one or two… — Ayelet Zurer Copy Share Image
The world of the stage and the performance on the stage usually does not tend to translate very well - it doesn't… — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
If you send out one coupon with a deadline of a week and another that must be used within the next month,… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
I think that different pleasures work for different readers - a friend of mine won't read anything that's not a cardiovascular sort… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't… — Armstrong Williams Copy Share Image
In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to recover.… — Jacky Ickx Copy Share Image
I tend to start with a kernel, a vague concept, and just begin to write things down - notes about a character,… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I've done a number of things in the spirit of employee motivation. I tend to be a storyteller and a student of… — Brad D. Smith Copy Share Image
My guilty pleasures tend to be weird, old shows that I find on channel 20 that I've never seen before like 'Voyage… — Edward Kitsis Copy Share Image
I tend to stay healthy because I've been eating right and exercising. It makes life so much easier when you're healthy. I… — James Maslow Copy Share Image
I think the reason you use an actor is if they are right for the role. Most of the high-profile stars tend… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
I like to be comfortable. And I think men tend to dress more comfortably than ladies. They can just put on a… — Alice Dellal Copy Share Image
If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting.… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that's it. I don't tend… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
African-Americans are not a monolithic group. So, we tend to talk about the black community, the black culture, the African-American television viewing… — Malcolm-Jamal Warner Copy Share Image
People tend to overlook the fact that North Korea's economy collapsed at about the same time as South Koreans lost faith in… — Brian Reynolds Myers Copy Share Image
We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't… — John Green Copy Share Image
It's possible that I would have been better suited to being a penguin keeper. Starting out, I thought being a writer would… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for many years. Westernized Indians… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
Women tend to need the healthcare system more because we bear children. Insurance companies - not all of them, but many of… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Even in the lives of fishes, sensation is seldom a matter of one thing or another. Senses overlap. The lines between them… — Lyall Watson Copy Share Image
