“Part of being a writer is feeling that constant dissatisfaction, thinking about what else you could do, and also knowing when it's time to leave a project.” ThinkingFeelingsKnowingProjectsConstantDissatisfactionTime To Leave Author:Leni Zumas
“The Grimm brothers always said that their informants were women, which is possibly not true, women of the people. There is the constant evocation of women's voices, in the collecting and arrangement of these stories, and yet the message of so many of them is incredibly misogynist. I was very puzzled by that, and that book explores that contradiction.” PeopleSaidBookStoriesVoiceBrotherMessagesConstantContradictionArrangementsCollectingPuzzledGrimmInformantsBrothers GrimmTrue Woman Author:Marina Warner
“The generation of women who came before us did much of our shouting. They laid the groundwork and now we can be calm and constant and steady.” GenerationsConstantCalmSteadyShoutingGroundwork Author:Julianna Baggott
“Towards the end of it [working as an escort girl] I could feel myself drifting towards a liquor habit and I had a few minor mental breakdowns due to a what I felt like was a constant chipping away at my personhood (guys thinking I would have unprotected sex with them if they just paid me fifty more dollars, for instance) and a few abusive clients.” IfsThinkingFeelsEndsGuyGirlSexFeltHabitPaidConstantDollarsDuesInstanceFiftyMinorsClientsLiquorBreakdownDriftingAbusivePersonhoodChipping AwayMental Breakdown Author:Marie Calloway
“I realized, that the life of a musician, even of a very lucky, very successful musician, wasn't really the life I wanted: I hate travel, I hate living out of suitcases, I hate the constant anxiety of being on stage.” WantedHateSuccessfulStageLuckyAnxietyMusicianI HateConstantI RealizedSuitcases Author:Garth Greenwell
“I'm pretty sure there's no sexuality that justifies constant low-level harassment.” LevelsLowsConstantSexualityJustifyHarassmentLow Level Author:Mallory Ortberg
“New York makes me swoony and in love. The New York of the 1880s was a place where black eye fixers did a brisk business and people were routinely killed for their shoes. But, the constant aspiration of the city never changes.” PeopleEyeBlackCitiesNew YorkConstantShoesAspirationNever ChangeBlack EyesFixers Author:Molly Crabapple
“In this life nothing is permanent. Joy, sorrow, pain, pleasure - everything is in a constant state of change. Thankfully.” StatesPainJoyPleasureSorrowConstantThis LifePermanentPain Pleasure Author:Danielle Cormack
“Just so we're clear, I'm not zen by any stretch of the imagination. However, what I've read about change being the only constant is a concept that I can grab onto and have used quite a lot.” I CanUsedImaginationClearConceptsConstant Author:Patrick Fabian
“Change is a constant. Anything you get attached to will one day be gone. Love the things you love as best as you can love them in the time you have in their presence. And that change, though I'm often fearful of it, has presented me with some of the greatest surprises I've ever received. I'm learning to become friends with it.” GoneOne DayConstantSurpriseFearfulOne LoveThings You LoveGone Love Author:Eric Lange
“If somebody needs, like, a phone call every day or some kind of constant companionship, I'm not a really good friend for them. I can talk to my best friend every couple years and be really happy.” IfsNeedsYearsKindI CanCoupleConstantPhonesGood FriendCompanionshipMy Best FriendPhone CallsReally HappyReally Good Friends Author:Patricia Arquette
“I call my mom and talk to her about random stuff I saw on the Internet. That's kind of the only constant in my day-to-day.” KindStuffSawsMomInternetConstantMy MomDay To DayRandom Stuff Author:Vanya Asher
“It's a constant process for me to learn to take the time to really understand what hurt me and how best to address it or respond. I tend to be reactionary, and that doesn't help me or others. I do try to keep my heart open.” TryingHeartHelpingProcessHurtMy HeartConstantHelp MeAddressesHurt MeReactionaries Author:Laura Regan
“We have been making constant efforts, all the time, to start dialogue with the SLORC, but you know it takes two. We don't want a monologue. We would like a substantive political dialogue among the SLORC, political leaders including myself, and leaders of ethnic groups-exactly as stipulated in the U.N. General Assembly resolution on Burma.” KnowsWantHas BeensTwoPoliticalEffortLeaderGroupsConstantIncludingDialogueResolutionAssemblyPolitical LeadersMonologuesBurmaEthnic GroupsGeneral AssemblyPolitical Dialogue Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“Eleanor Roosevelt started off almost every early article she wrote, starting with, "My mother was the most beautiful woman I'd ever seen." And I think her life was a constant and continual and lifelong contrast with her mother.” ThinkingBeautifulMotherConstantStartingArticlesContrastBeautiful WomenLifelongEleanor Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“What Secretary Ash Carter is looking at is the constant pressure that Russia's putting on our European allies. The way that Russia is trying to move the boundaries of the post-World War II Europe. The way that he is trying to set European countries against one another, seizing territory, holding it in Crimea. Beginning to explore whether they could make some inroads in the Baltics.” WorldWayTryingWarCountryMovingEuropePressureConstantRussiaBoundariesPostsWar Of The WorldsTerritoryAlliesWorld War IiWorld War IAshesSecretaryCarterEuropean CountriesSeizingCrimea Author:Hillary Clinton
“I find I've always been judgmental about comedy (laughs) and it's hard to turn that off, really. But what constant exposure to live comedy does is it makes you give people a second chance.” PeopleGivingDoeHardTurnsChanceLaughingComedyConstantExposureSecond ChanceJudgmental Author:Scott Aukerman
“So it's a constant struggle, it's a constant balance, it's a constant search to find the balance between being responsible, carrying on with this as a livelihood and making ends meet, but at the same time, respecting your loved ones and being able to stay in touch and be there for them, at least emotionally since you're not there physically.” EndsAbleStruggleBalanceResponsibleConstantLoved OnesBeing ResponsibleLivelihoodCarrying OnConstant Struggle Author:Chuck Ragan
“I read Aschenbach's constant desire to go beyond the works he has already produced to be the counterpart of Mann's deep wish to surpass his previous fiction; sometimes the diaries express this in terms of a dejected judgment that the summit has already been reached.” SometimesDesireWishTermFictionJudgmentConstantDiariesSummitCounterpartsDejected Author:Philip Kitcher
“I never really have to sit at a desk thinking, "What should I do now?" It doesn't work like that for me, and it never has. My thinking process is constant. The difference is that once I was in Antwerp only doing two men's shows a year. And the weird thing is I thought I was busy then.” ThinkingMenShouldYearsTwoShowsProcessDifferencesConstantBusyShould IDesksWeird ThingsThinking ProcessAntwerp Author:Raf Simons
“There have been many instances of people combining the political life with the spiritual life, a life of constant self-examination. Gandhi was a great example of that.” PeopleHas BeensSelfSpiritualPoliticalExampleConstantInstanceSpiritual LifeExaminationCombiningPolitical LifeSelf-examination Author:Pankaj Mishra
“If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.” IfsMenLifeInspirationalShouldDoeMotivationalLeftFriendshipFriendsConstantAcquaintanceMy FriendshipLeft AloneAbout FriendshipNew FriendsLove And FriendshipFriendship LoveFriendship MemoriesOne Line FriendshipMaking FriendsNew FriendshipNot FriendsFriends For LifeFriendship And LifeLife Love And FriendshipMaking New FriendsNew Acquaintances Author:Samuel Johnson
“I don't want to play into the perception that all women should look like fourteen year old boys. I don't want to add to that pressure for young girls. But in Hollywood, there is a constant pressure to look a certain way.” WayWantShouldYearsLooksPlayYoungCertainGirlBoysPerceptionHollywoodPressureConstantAddFourteen Author:Amber Heard
“Most times you do a movie every place except for what the camera sees is just a mess with the lights, people, and cameras so you get used to it. There is no way to shut that out, there is always a constant reminder of how many people it takes, what is going on and how many elements that goes into making this scene look right.” PeopleWayLooksLightUsedSceneElementsCamerasConstantMessReminders Author:Jeremy Sisto
“I am responsible for what happened to me but if I was to stay there it is kind of a constant reminder and it is very easy.... You know the new song is called Mental.... I am not trying to hide from people that I have OCD, and I don't think that I am a completely normal person.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsTryingKindPersonsSongEasyHappenedNormalResponsibleConstantRemindersOcdNew Songs Author:Shane Bunting
“I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'” MindLittlesMightDoubtTearsReadyStandingConstantBeam Author:Shawn Johnson
“It took a child. It took a child with a blood transfusion not only to wake me up, but to wake America up, basically. I mean, I read about his plight in a doctor's office in New York in a magazine. I was so outraged about it that I contacted the family. We became friends. I helped them move to another place in Indiana. And we became constant friends.” MeanChildrenAmericaMovingBloodNew YorkOfficeDoctorsConstantMagazinesIndianaPlightOutragedBlood Transfusion Author:Elton John
“None of the bands I'm in demand constant touring, so I'm able to do a bunch of things.” AbleBandDemandConstantBunchTouring Author:Colin Marston
“There is indeed a level of improvisation where we can distort and shuffle the music patterns, samples, and loops in each phase of the show within fixed cue points, but at the same time there is a constant result that we are trying to achieve each night while performing and operating our system - quite similar in spirit to a broadway show for example: If you go see a musical two nights in a row, the performances are different yet similar.” IfsTryingTwoDifferentShowsSpiritNightLevelsResultsAchieveExamplePerformancesConstantMusicalPatternsPerformingFixedPhasesBroadwayImprovisationSampleLoopsShuffleBroadway Shows Author:Thomas Bangalter
“But that constant adjustment and adaptation to your new environment, all the variables are the same. There's always a promoter, there's always a rider, there's always a shower, and there's always a stage.” EnvironmentStageConstantShowersAdaptationAdjustmentRidersVariablesPromotersNew Environment Author:Feist
“I think I prefer the constant renewal. It's almost like sandpapering down any details or any contour of familiarities.” ThinkingConstantDetailsRenewalFamiliarity Author:Feist
“Transport drives me crazy. I find myself on this constant conveyor belt and the planes, buses, traffic jams, ugh.” CrazyConstantPlanesBusTrafficBeltsJamTransportUghDrive Me CrazyTraffic Jam Author:Patrick Wolf
“Some of my favorite music is incredibly repetitive, or on the surface has an element of repetition. But once you go beneath the surface, you realize in the repetition is constant variation.” RealizingElementsMusic IsConstantMy FavoriteSurfaceRepetitionVariationRepetitiveBeneath The SurfaceFavorite Music Author:John Dieterich
“Cultures, when they meet, influence one another, whether people like it or not. But Americans don't have any way of describing this secret that has been going on for more than two hundred years. The intermarriage of the Indian and the African in America, for example, has been constant and thorough. Colin Powell tells us in his autobiography that he is Scotch, Irish, African, Indian, and British, but all we hear is that he is African.” PeopleWayYearsHas BeensTwoAmericaCultureSecretInfluenceExampleHundredConstantBritishIndianAutobiographyDescribingThoroughScotchIntermarriage Author:Richard Rodriguez
“Everything today is "transient." Technology and its ability to empower actors large and small evolve so quickly that we have to get used to living in a world that exists in a more or less constant state of flux.” WorldStatesTodayUsedActorsAbilityTechnologyConstantEvolveEmpoweringTransientFlux Author:Ian Bremmer
“The Internet, like all intellectual technologies has a trade off. As we train our brains to use it, as we adapt to the environment of the internet, which is an environment of kind of constant immersion and information and constant distractions, interruptions, juggling lots of messages, lots of bits of information.” KindUseBitsBrainTechnologyEnvironmentInformationInternetMessagesIntellectualTradeConstantTrainDistractionInterruptionsJugglingImmersionTrade Offs Author:Nicholas G. Carr
“The brutality of the pace. This was my third presidential campaign and it was a thousand times faster paced than my first one in 2004. The news cycle is constant and there has been an explosion in the number of news outlets covering them. As as result we're witnessing news and entertainment melding together to create what I'd describe as the "American Idolization" of campaigns and politics.” FirstsHas BeensTogetherResultsNumbersThousandNewsThirdsConstantEntertainmentCampaignsFasterPresidentialCyclesPaceOutletsExplosionsCoveringBrutalityPresidential Campaign Author:Kevin Madden
“The world has changed around me. I've been me, and continuously being me in a constant, steadfast way.” WorldWayChangedConstantBeing MeSteadfast Author:Jeremy Scott
“I think I have been fashioned by the fickle weather of Britain that it is - it's forever changing. There's no kind of constant sun or dry weather or freezing weather, and I'm always having to change and adapt to that.” ThinkingKindHas BeensSunForeverConstantWeatherDryBritainFickleFreezing Author:Andy Goldsworthy
“The morning, when I need to have opinions and answers across the board very quickly, is a constant fight between ease and inspiration, what will make our lives easier versus what will make us excited because we were ambitious.” NeedsInspirationFightingAnswersOpinionMorningOur LivesEasierConstantExcitedEaseBoardsAmbitiousVersus Author:Allison Silverman
“The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.” WayStatesFactsSeeingFrontsFunctionConstantDenial Author:Bassem Youssef
“If our designs are failing due to the constant rain of changing requirements, it is our designs that are at fault. We must somehow find a way to make our designs resilient to such changes and protect them from rotting.” IfsWayLearningFailingDesignProtectRainConstantFaultsSimplicityDuesProgrammingRequirementsResilientComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesComputer LanguageRotting Author:Robert Cecil Martin
“We talk about saving time and killing time when actually we can't do either. We have no choice but to spend it at a constant and flowing rate.” TimeChoicesConstantKillingRateSavingTime To KillSaving Time Author:Michael LeBoeuf
“There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring.” FirstsAmountPressureConstantAlbumsSpeedEnormousTouringExhaustion Author:Norah Jones
“I would imagine, a very large percentage of people who get something for art and they do something else, and they have some excess resources. And they trade those resources with artists whose work makes them feel good, or feel better, or question. And the artist, if they're smart, they use it to buy the most expensive thing in the world: time to make more. The more that come, the better it is for these people, their children, the people they care about, fills the society with a real constant thing.” PeopleIfsWorldFeelsChildrenArtRealUseCareArtistImagineSmartResourcesTradeConstantFeel GoodExpensiveExcessFeel BetterPercentages Author:Lawrence Weiner
“You always wonder whether the attacks on my capabilities came from an honest evaluation of my accomplishments or from stereotypical presumptions that we, people of color, just can't do it, for some reason. This is, for an accomplished Latino, an accomplished African American, an accomplished anyone who disproves stereotypes, it's a constant battle in your life.” PeopleReasonWonderHonestColorBattleConstantAfrican AmericanAccomplishmentAccomplishedCapabilityStereotypeLatinoPresumptionEvaluation Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“D.N.A. sequences change by mutations, and the idea behind the molecular clock is that those changes occur at, more or less, a constant rate, over time.” IdeasBehindsConstantRateClockSequenceMutation Author:Mark Stoneking
“I think what inspires me is in a constant state of flux...it's easier to stick to photographers and perhaps cinematographers, though the great medieval, Mannerist, and Baroque painters of Italian, Spanish, Flemish, and German origin are a constant source of inspiration, along with select modernists like Dali.” ThinkingStatesInspirationInspireSourceEasierConstantSticksPhotographerPainterItalianSelectMedievalFluxBaroqueSource Of InspirationCinematographers Author:Anton Yelchin
“Years ago I was in a band called Two Lane Blacktop - we deliberately named ourselves after the 'Two-Lane Blacktop' movie, 'cuz it's a car chase movie. All our songs were based on movies, every single song. I love movies, and that was something that me and the singer in Two Lane Blacktop bonded over - we were design students together, we did a film-class together, so we became obsessed with movies. It's followed me around ever since then, it's a constant theme.” YearsTwoTogetherFilmSongClassCarDesignStudentsBandYears AgoConstantSingersObsessedThemeLanesCuzMovie Love Author:Ladyhawke
“And if you look at all this academic work in the conferences and so on there's a constant theme that terrorism is extremely hard to define and we therefore have to have a deep thinking about it. And the reason it's hard to define is quite simple. It's hard to find a definition that includes what they do to us but excludes what we do to them. That's quite difficult. So it takes a global war on terrorism.” IfsThinkingLooksWarHardReasonDifficultSimpleConstantDefinitionsTerrorismThemeAcademicConferencesWar On TerrorWar On TerrorismDeep ThinkingAcademic Work Author:Noam Chomsky