“Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense.” WorldKindMadeIdeasCertainBitsSecularHighwaysAirportsInfrastructureTransportationTransportation Infrastructure Author:Thomas Frank
“I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.” WayLittlesCertainBitsLittle BitFreakPerfectionistControl Freak Author:Rachel Zoe
“I'm finding a lot of actors my age now who are a bit more like me, and not as posh or brought up in a certain way. There's now people of all sorts of kinds of backgrounds.” PeopleWayKindAgeCertainActorsBitsFindingsBackgroundsLike MePosh Author:Kaya Scodelario
“It's not my place to tell you whom to vote for, to take any political stand, to tell you what religion to believe in. I'm an athlete. I can influence certain things, but when I see other athletes and celebrities telling you whom to vote for, I actually get a bit offended.” BelieveI CanPoliticalCertainBitsInfluenceVoteAthleteOffended Author:Pete Sampras
“At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a certain comment on that particular story, a certain bit of news that we saw on the television applies to that and we immediately assemble an idea of a story.” IdeasStoriesCertainBitsSawsTelevisionParticularNewsTablesNewspapersEncountersBreakfastCommentArticlesRecallsRecognise Author:Mark Z. Danielewski
“Reading one's own poems aloud is letting the cat out of the bag. You may have always suspected bits of a poem to be overweighted, overviolent, or daft, and then, suddenly, with the poet's tongue around them, your suspicion is made certain.” MayMadeCertainReadingBitsPoetCatTongueBagsSuspicionDaft Author:Dylan Thomas
“I keep social with everyone because I want to know what's going on at every level. At the same time, if I'm not alone a certain amount of time per day then I'll go nuts, because I can't write and I can't think. I can't deal with people all the time. I like being alone. I'm a bit of a cat lady in that way.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayWantWritingI CanCertainSocialBitsLevelsDealsAmountCatNutsNot AloneBecause I CanLike Being AloneCat Lady Author:Courtney Love
“Time will tell ... whether folks want to point and stare at the black woman filmmaker who made a certain kind of film, and pat her on the back, or if they want to actually roll up the sleeves and do a little bit of work so that there can be more of me coming through.” IfsWantKindLittlesMadeFilmCertainBitsBlackLittle BitFolksStaringFilmmakerBlack WomenSleevesTime Will Tell Author:Ava DuVernay
“If you're talking about musically, I think I understand just a little bit more about things that were mostly intuited back then - how certain timings and tones work, so I can be a little more analytical about things now.” IfsThinkingLittlesI CanCertainBitsTalkingLittle BitToneTiming Author:David First
“Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too; at all events, I think it such a great blessing when a man has found his work that I cannot count myself among the unfortunate. I mean, I may be in certain relatively great difficulties, and there may be gloomy days in my life, but I shouldn't like to be counted among the unfortunate, nor would it be correct if I were.” IfsThinkingMenMayMeanArtCertainCoursesFoundBitsPowerfulEventsBlessingDifficultyAverageMoodFirmStreamsCarrieSerenityUnfortunateHarborsGloomyMood Changes Book:Van Gogh's Source: Van Gogh's
“Theres a certain logic to systems, and that logic is fairly self-evident. Its very straightforward, usually. It might take a little research, it might take a little bit of industry to prize it out, but its there to be seen.” LittlesSelfMightCertainBitsIndustryLittle BitResearchLogicPrizeEvidentStraightforward Author:Michael Nesmith
“The most interesting heroes have a bit of villainy to them, and the most interesting villains have a certain bit of heroism in them. I think (Alan Shore) intends to do the right thing, but his view of the world is very different so, to get to the right place, he sometimes takes a path that goes through a very dark forest.” ThinkingWorldDifferentSometimesCertainBitsDarkInterestingViewsPathHeroForestsRight ThingShoreVillainHeroismMost InterestingRight PlaceVillainy Author:James Spader
“There's a lot of pressure on women to fulfill certain fantasies. They expect you to be a little bit of a tart, to flirt with all the men. A lot of women do it. But I'm not doing that. I talk with these guys about their wives and kids right away. When they say inappropriate things, I let them, because boys will be boys, but I'm not looking to participate in their conversations.” MenLittlesKidsGuyCertainBitsWomenBoysFantasyWifeHe ManConversationLittle BitPressureFlirtingInappropriateTarts Author:Jessica Alba
“Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain. Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings. Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.” BodyLawCertainBitsBrainSadnessSubjectsFlowMachinesClockNervesChemicalsElectricityMechanicAcidElectricalElectronsArousal Book:Einstein's Dreams Source: Einstein's Dreams
“It sounds blase but there is a certain amount of luck. We'd all like to take a certain amount of credit for Kevin Doyle... I can't really remember what it was I particularly liked about Kevin when I watched him in Ireland. I had five pints of Guinness in the afternoon and it was all a bit blurred.” I CanRememberCertainBitsSoundFiveFootballAmountLuckCreditManagersSoccerAfternoonIrelandChairmanKevinPintsGuinness Author:Steve Coppell
“I instinctively dress a bit tougher because I've spent a lot of time in the U.S. and I realised there was a certain image projected of me here. I've always been an absolute rebel. When I was in my teen years I had piercings and wore all black.” YearsCertainBitsBlackAbsolutesDressesRebelRealisedPiercingsAll Black Author:Ellie Goulding
“I feel like the personal me and the artistic me are separate, but connected. It's almost like a Jekyll and Hyde thing. As much as you try to keep them apart, they end up together. I'm very much aware that when I'm miserable on the creative side - if I can't make things work a certain way - it really detracts from being the father I want to be. So in order to ultimately be a good father and the man I want to be I know I need to keep my creative side in check, or at least a little bit happy. It's weird how it's intertwined that way.” IfsKnowsMenWayWantNeedsFeelsTryingLittlesI CanEndsTogetherCertainOrderFatherBitsSidesCreativeHe ManLittle BitConnectedChecksMiserableArtisticIntertwinedGood FatherHydeJekyllJekyll And Hyde Author:Frank Iero
“State are not made, nor patched; they grow; Grow slow through centuries of pain, And grow correctly in the main; But only grow by certain laws, Of certain bits in certain jaws.” MadeStatesGovernmentPainLawCertainGrowsBitsCentury Book:Poems by John Masefield Source: Poems by John Masefield
“there is a danger, when thinking of the earliest civilized people, of putting too much emphasis on technology. One tends to assume that if you don't have, at least, a lavatory and perhaps something that will take you a lot faster than your own feet, or a certain number of gadgets in the house, then you must be in some way, a bit backward and defective ... the important thing to remember is that technology is not necessarily the same thing as civilization.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayImportantRememberCertainHouseBitsNumbersTechnologyToo MuchFeetDangerCivilizationImportant ThingsAssumingFasterCivilizedEmphasisGadgetsDefective Author:Jacquetta Hawkes
“No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to emulate, a supreme phrase being a bit of luck that only happens now and then. And inasmuch as the condiments and secret travail of human nature are always the same, and that certain psychological moments must ever and ever recur, what more tempting than to pin down such a moment with the blow of a borrowed hammer?” HumansMomentsHappensArtistCertainBitsSecretDoubtHuman NatureLuckBlowSupremePsychologicalPhrasesNo DoubtNow And ThenQuotationsCunningHammersPinsBorrowedEmulateTemptingCondiments Author:Ethel Smyth
“Once you introduce the issue to young people and suggest to them that they have the ability to vote with their forks, either by positively going for certain kinds of foods or rejecting other kinds of foods, they realize that this is a responsibility and an opportunity to shape the world a little bit by their own choices.” PeopleWorldKindLittlesYoungCertainChoicesOpportunityBitsRealizingAbilityResponsibilityIssuesShapesLittle BitVoteIntroducingPositivelyForksRejecting Author:Michael Pollan
“When people are too present, too familiar or too in our face, something happens to us psychologically. We begin to tune them out, we begin to get sick of them, we begin to know them so well and become so familiar with who they are that we loose a bit of respect for them. You pass a certain threshold with the fact that you're too present in their lives, too much in their face and once that threshold is passed you're never going to repair it they have lost a certain respect for you.” PeopleKnowsWellsFactsHappensFacesCertainLostBitsToo MuchSickThings HappenFamiliarTunesThreshold Author:Robert Greene
“Whereas in a memory you edit things out and sort of restructure the things to seem a little bit more heroic, or to focus on particular aspects that magnify or reduce certain things.” LittlesSeemsCertainBitsMemoriesFocusParticularLittle BitAspectHeroicEditsRestructure Author:Chris Ware
“In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us. I often think that all I want to do now is to avoid suicide, accidental or otherwise. Other than that, I think living on the edge is what drives my work and me beyond a certain point. The artist lives with anxiety. When you finally reach a plateau of achievement, there comes a new anxiety - the hunger to push on still further. That angst is what makes you go forward.” ThinkingWantFeelsHumansArtStillsEndsArtistCertainBitsProduceGoes OnAchievementAnxietySuicideHungerEdgesBalancedAngstLiving OnNeurosisBeing An ArtistImbalanceLiving On The Edge Author:Beverly Pepper
“I think, typically, sci-fi can be a little bit grey and thought provoking. Sometimes it leaves you pondering certain questions and things.” ThinkingLittlesSometimesCertainBitsLittle BitThought ProvokingSci FiProvokingGreyPondering Author:Michelle Monaghan
“The CW is a very fashion-oriented network and they like their stars to look a certain way. I like that, but at the same time, I need Nikita to be toned down a bit. You can't draw too much attention to Nikita because she's an assassin.” WayNeedsLooksCertainStarsBitsAttentionToo MuchFashionDrawsAssassins Author:Maggie Q