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“I'm an agnostic. Sometimes I muse deeply on the forces that are for me invisible. When I am almost close to the idea of God, I feel immediately estranged by the horrors of this world, which he seems to tolerate.”

World Feels Ideas Sometimes Seems Force This World Horror Invisible Tolerate Muse Agnostic

Author:Stanislaw Ulam

“Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only thirteen years old, reading Jules Verne or H. G. Wells, and have fallen asleep.”

Feels Years Wells Stills Sometimes Reading Happened Lifetime Rational Fallen Explanation Thirteen Thirteen Year Olds

Author:Stanislaw Ulam

“You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work in those mediums, of course, but sometimes a book should remain a book. I still believe nothing tells a story with the richness and complexity of a good novel. When people say they think a book would make a good movie, they say this sometimes because, if it worked, they already saw all the images in the movie theatre that is in their brains. And sometimes that is the way it should stay.”

“In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story.”

Sometimes Stories Past Night Streets Empty Mysterious Los Angeles Rays Bradbury

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose as music, in terms of its rhythms and dynamics, the way you compress and expand the attention of a reader over a sentence, the way the tempo pushes you towards an image or sensation. We want an intense experience, so that we can forget ourselves when we enter the world of the book. When you are reading, the physical object of the book should disappear from your hands.”

“Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it. In Los Angeles, it is quite the opposite: it is an older city than it might seem to be, but you don't perceive this -- every day you get out of your home, you are driving somewhere and sometimes you get this impression that everything was put there the night before.”

Feels Sometimes Home Seems Might Night Walks Cities Opposites Weight Driving Impression Perceive Los Angeles Barcelona

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.”

Thinking Men Humans Made Sometimes Facts Race Mistake Ten Members Eight Human Race Pigs Tails Made A Mistake Crooked Hog Swine

Book:The Prisoner of Heaven: A Novel

Source: The Prisoner of Heaven: A Novel

“This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted.”

Sometimes Use Skills Training Research Boring Gifted

Author:Martin Lewis

“Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave.”

Sometimes Masters Becoming Slave

Book:Wild Seed

Source: Wild Seed

“You want to grow. To compete effectively - - even if you weren't going to grow, just to maintain your position - - you look at who you're competing with. And everyone you're competing with is changing to get better, sometimes dramatically.”

Ifs Want Looks Sometimes Grows Position Get Better Competing

Author:Tim Finchem

“Sometimes, Manny is taking a nap, and you woke up the baby. There's not a better retaliation, something like that. Manny's one of the best at that.”

Sometimes Baby Naps Retaliation

Author:Kevin Millar

“The thing about playing percussion is that you can create all these emotions that can be sometimes beautiful, sometimes really ugly, or sometimes sweet, sometimes as big as King Kong and so on. And so there can be a real riot out there, or it can be so refined.”

Real Sometimes Bigs Beautiful Emotion Sweet Kings Ugly Riot Refined Percussion King Kong

Author:Evelyn Glennie

“Leaks are good. There is too much secrecy in our government. Sometimes the government knows about a problem and it takes a leak to embarrass the bureaucracy and get them to do something about it.”

Knows Sometimes Problem Government Too Much Bureaucracy Secrecy Leaks

Author:Joan Claybrook

“It's true, I do sometimes suspend myself over the canvas, but mostly I work at a table when I'm making a painting. When I use 'The Rig,' my feet are firmly anchored. I lower myself horizontally just long enough to make a brush stroke - a matter of seconds - and then I'm upright again. My assistant then erases the painting quickly with a squeegee and I go for it again... until I get it right. It's like trying to hit a home run.”

Trying Long Sometimes Matter Enough Use Home Running Feet Painting Tables Seconds Canvas Strokes Brushes Erase Assistants Home Run Methodology Rigs Brush Strokes

Author:James Nares

“What you have to do is disavow yourself from any sense other than ascendancy. That's the only direction you could possibly have towards painting. There's no other direction at all. There's no other space in art. There's no other way in which you can find yourself except in somehow feeling it. And by holding to this feeling you can once again reach out and guess and miss - and sometimes hit.”

Way Art Sometimes Feelings Space Missing Painting Finding Yourself Reach Out Ascendancy

Author:Milton Resnick

“Turn things around sometimes and look at life from a different perspective.”

Looks Different Sometimes Turns Perspective Different Perspective

Author:Jean Wilson

“Color exists simultaneously with form. Both elements are constantly associated but color strikes you more - a rose for instance - sometimes form - the human body.”

Humans Sometimes Body Form Color Elements Rose Strikes Instance Colour Human Body

Author:Ferdinand Hodler

“When I rest, I rest and when I work, I work hard and sometimes for long hours. I always try to be rested when I work.”

Trying Long Sometimes Hard Hours Work Hard Work Long Hours

Author:Simmie Knox

“Sometimes, in a portrait, I go straight in with paint onto canvas... Other than riding my bike up and down the hills around here, it is the most dangerous thing I do... like tightrope-walking without a safety net!”

Sometimes Dangerous Danger Walking Safety Paint Hills Riding Canvas Portraits Bike Up And Down Dangerous Things Safety Net

Author:David Cobley

“Sometimes I had to force the overpainting of three corners almost without any feeling for shape, almost without inspiration, only to find my way back, to get out of this hell.”

Way Sometimes Feelings Inspiration Three Force Hell Shapes Corners My Way Frustration

Book:Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition curated

Source: Arnulf Rainer: an exhibition curated

“We are all frustrated with computers, all the time... But we also always develop a relationship with computers these days - something my parents never had... there%u2018s always a kind of negotiation, sometimes you are in tune with it and other times you are fighting with it.”

Kind Sometimes Fighting Parent Technology Computer These Days Tunes Frustrated Negotiation

Author:Wade Guyton

“Sometimes I seem to be two people. One who does not paint and one who does. The one who does not paint assumes that the one who does can paint anything. The one who is the painter sometimes finds it difficult to live up to that faith.”

People Doe Two Sometimes Seems Faith Difficult Assuming Paint Painter

Author:Mary Pratt

“Sometimes neuroscientists ask impossible questions.”

Sometimes Asks Impossible

Author:Dave Soldier

“I can read books and news articles about people who have excelled, people who have done extremely well in their chosen field, or made a lot of money, or married well, or what have you. When some people read this stuff, they get inspired, but when I read it, it makes me feel worse. Sometimes I wish I had never learned to read.”

People Feels Wells Made I Can Book Sometimes Done Wish Stuff Fields Married News Inspired Chosen Articles Lots Of Money I Can Read

Author:John S. Hall

“Love is a flower of life - sometimes half open, one has to receive it with both hands. Nurture it, so it may open to its full bloom - you will be rewarded with its blessful frangrance. You may be intoxicated for life. If you let it drop on the ground, you have missed the most valuable gift of life.”

Ifs Love May Sometimes Hands Love Is Half Flower Valuable Love Life Nurture Intoxicated Gifts Of Life Flower Life

Author:Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal

“When the press writes scare stories about the global labor supply draining jobs from rich to poor places, the story is usually presented as a "race to the bottom" simply in terms of wages. Capitalism supposedly looks for labor wherever labor is cheapest. This story is half wrong. A kind of cultural selection is also at work, so that jobs leave high-wage countries like the United States and Germany, but migrate to low-wage economies with skilled, sometimes overqualified workers.”

Source: The Culture of the New Capitalism

“Indeed, it is sometimes almost as if the problem had to be forgotten to be solved.”

Ifs Sometimes Problem Forgotten

Book:The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

“On the other hand, and let's face it, there's always another hand, unless you're a Saudi Arabian shoplifter of course, hurt feelings can be quite traumatic. I've heard that it can take seconds, sometimes even minutes, to get over it.”

Sometimes Feelings Hands Faces Courses Hurt Heard Minutes Over It Seconds Get Over Hurt Feelings Saudis Arabian

Author:Pat Condell

“A wise man who cultivates wisdom may sometimes drown in it.”

Men May Sometimes Wisdom Wise

Book:Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan

Source: Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan

“The bitter winds in February were sometimes called the First East Winds, but the longing for spring somehow made them seem more piercing.”

Firsts Made Sometimes Seems Wind Spring Longing East Bitter February Piercings

Author:Eiji Yoshikawa

“I have an office in my house, with a comfy red print reading chair and a soft cream-colored desk. After I walk Winston the Wonder dog and have my breakfast, I head to my office. Every single day. Sometimes, when I'm working on revisions, I print off my manuscript and go to a coffee shop to work. But mostly you can find me in my office.”

Sometimes Reading House Walks Wonder Dog Office Red Coffee Shops Chairs Print Breakfast Cream Desks Find Me Manuscripts Revision Coffee Shop

Author:Kirby Larson

“The fact is that much of advertising's power comes from this belief that advertising does not affect us. The most effective kind of propaganda is that which is not recognized as propaganda. Because we think advertising is silly and trivial, we are less on guard, less critical, than we might otherwise be. It's all in fun, it's ridiculous. While we're laughing, sometimes sneering, the commercial does its work.”

Thinking Kind Doe Sometimes Facts Might Belief Fun Laughing Critical Ridiculous Silly Advertising Propaganda

Book:Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel

Source: Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel

“Advertising is the best insurance that you can take out on your business. You can buy fire insurance on your stock of goods, but no company will issue a policy covering your business, the good will as they sometimes call it. You must insure yourself, and the best way to do it is by advertising. Good advertising kept up for a number of years gives you something that no fire can take away.”

Way Giving Years Sometimes Numbers Company Issues Fire Policy Best Way Advertising Goods Good Will Covering Fire Insurance

Book:Retail Advertising: Complete

Source: Retail Advertising: Complete

“Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is. We seldom play games--we aren't that sophisticated.”

Men Sometimes Play Games Simple Accepting Communicate Sophisticated

Author:Chris Abani

“I truly believe that writing is a continuum--so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better.”

Needs Writing Believe Ideas Different Sometimes Form Genre Floats Continuum Different Genres Different Ideas

Author:Chris Abani

“Sometimes we say we want an end to hate or racism or sexism. But we all participate in keeping these structures alive. If everyone decided to relinquish the past what would happen to people who feel that there hasn't been proper atonement made to them? And what happens to the person who feels that the constant atonement is their identity?”

People Ifs Want Feels Persons Made Ends Sometimes Happens Past Hate Alive Identity Racism Decided Structure Constant Sexism Atonement

Author:Chris Abani

“I think that most writers who are trying to write important and difficult books are in many ways putting their own humanity into question. Sometimes the journey is finding out where you stand in relationship to your own humanity and to the humanity of others.”

Thinking Way Writing Trying Important Book Sometimes Humanity Difficult Journey Findings Where You Stand

Author:Chris Abani

“The person who's receiving the food cooks as much as the chef. They have a very important role to play... There's no other activity that the person who receives it can destroy the work, can participate in how it's being done. It's emotional. Sometimes journalists are going to have to start talking more about the diners than the chefs.”

Persons Important Sometimes Done Play Talking Roles Emotional Activity Eating Cooks Journalist Receiving Chef Being Done Diners

Author:Ferran Adria

“More than one branch of the avant-garde, claiming to break with the bourgeois vision and mode of production, remains tied to it in spite of its denials and ex-communications. We are far from having overcome bourgeois thought or practices, despite the socialist "intermission" between the Russian revolution and the collapse of the Berlin wall. The avant-garde has lost its radical nature. On the other hand, "bourgeois theatre" is sometimes subtle enough to flirt with the avant-garde or to make "intelligent boulevard theatre.”

“Remember that progress is not linear either. Sometimes you make great progress for a while and then you slide back a little. That's OK. Don't give up.”

Giving Littles Sometimes Remember Progress Giving Up Slides Don't Give Up Linear Great Progress

Author:Lee Labrada

“Sometimes my family thinks I've made my childhood a bit more Dickensian than it was, and it probably wasn't all that bad. But I was uncomfortable as a kid.”

Thinking Made Sometimes Kids Bits Childhood My Family Uncomfortable

Author:Tracy Letts

“I love having written. Sometimes I love writing. I love to revise. Revising is my favorite part of writing.”

Writing Sometimes Written My Favorite Revising

Author:Gail Carson Levine

“Even when we know things, sometimes it takes words to make them concrete.”

Knows Sometimes Concrete

Author:Glen Cook

“The reaction to death is sometimes as violent as death itself. Shock throws a cautious coolness over your senses, but your stomach still has knots, your skin stings as if the Reaper is glaring at you as well.”

Ifs Wells Stills Sometimes Skins Senses Violent Reactions Shock Over You Stomach Cautious Knots Reaper Coolness

Book:Fears Unnamed

Source: Fears Unnamed

“Growing up closes so many doors. The modern world doesn't allow for miracles, so we don't see them. It's a very precious gift, an open mind, but it's not passive. You've got to nurture it like a bed of roses; otherwise it will wither and die. Make sure you don't close off your mind to things you find strange. Sometimes they may be the only truth.”

World Mind May Sometimes Dies Growing Up Growing Doors Modern Strange Bed Miracle Rose Passive Nurture Modern World Open Mind Precious Gifts Bed Of Roses

Author:Tim Lebbon

“It wasn't a case of me sitting down and thinking, right then, what shall I do with my life? Airline pilot? Plumber? Guitar manufacturer? Writer .... yeah, writer. I've always loved writing, from a very early age--I guess I was writing my first stories when I was still in single digits. It progressed, and the love of writing grew in my mind and is still growing. Doing it full-time, there are different stresses and tensions, and the business side of it comes to the fore sometimes. But I still love it, and I'm always thankful that I can do what I do and make a living from it.”

“Sometimes the harshest lessons were the most valuable.”

Sometimes Learning Lessons Valuable

Book:The Sunrise Lands: A Novel of the Change

Source: The Sunrise Lands: A Novel of the Change

“The Customer isn't always right. Sometimes the customer is an a**hole. That's the first rule of retail.”

Firsts Sometimes Customers Holes Retail

Author:Kelly Link

“Real life ... it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it.”

World Life Real Sometimes Bigs Action Chaos Real Life Portions Ambiguous Big Picture

Book:The Policy

Source: The Policy

“Above all, translators must be native speakers. It’s not because they speak the language better – I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn a language better than native speakers. It has more to do with intimate knowledge of the society for which the book is being translated.”

Book Sometimes Speak Language Intimate Native Speakers Foreigners Translators

Author:Sergei Lukyanenko

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