Certain Kind Quotes

165 quotes by 154 authors

Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when we leave childhood… — Roberto Bolano
The inability to envision a certain kind of person doing a certain kind of thing because you've never seen someone who looks like him do… — Michael Lewis
But this thing, whatever it was, this mistlike something, hung there inside my body like a certain kind of potential. I wanted to give it… — Haruki Murakami
Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an alliance with the… — Alain de Botton
There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having. — Gene Wolfe
She moved from being a young woman into having the angular look of a queen, someone who has made her face with her desire to… — Michael Ondaatje
It takes certain kind of naivetÃ©, or perhaps just stupidity, to know things will end and still hope otherwise. — Gayle Forman
There is a certain kind of peace that is not merely the absence of war. It is larger than that. The peace I am thinking… — Toni Morrison
Green is a label for a certain attitude to life, a certain kind of respect that one might have for the very source of things… — Annie Lennox
I make spaces that are calm rather than confrontational. I seek a certain kind of logic that allows you to move in space and perceive… — Annabelle Selldorf
The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery. — Athol Fugard
Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are,… — Jack Dunphy
Certain directors are known for a certain kind of beauty; it becomes their signature. — Tom Ford
I read mostly Irish, African, Japanese, South American, and African writers. You can count on Scandinavian literature for a certain kind of darkness, a modern… — Chris Abani
Anything by Lorrie Moore speaks to a certain kind of person. — Jami Attenberg
All it takes to become president is money and a certain kind of power. Being president is the first thing I can shoot for, not… — Todd Rundgren
The thing that got me closest to doing Kermit was remembering what Jim did when he was doing Kermit. When he would do Kermit, there… — Steve Whitmire
I would personally not run down any cinema just because I am not capable of making it. Anurag Kashyap makes a certain kind of cinema;… — Rohit Shetty
Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws… — Martin Cruz Smith
We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort of nice middle class intelligent folk… — Adolph Green

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