Quotes of Type - somelinesforyou

“ Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. ”

- Henry Brooks Adams

“ Every man has three characters — that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. ”

- Alphonse Karr

“ Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga — stylized because even the most acute of them have little leeway as they play out their parts. ”

- Edward Hoagland

“ I think if I weren't so beautiful, maybe I'd have more character. ”

- Jerry Hall

“ The art of stamp-collecting is to get a number of good stamps, not to get a good number of any stamps. ”

- Unknown

“ It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is. ”

- Jorge Luis Borges

“ I'm rather bored by the subject-meaning me. It's a sort of a yoke, but at times you know, a yoke is a kind of comfort. And it's always there. ”

- Laurence Olivier

“ Only the mediocre are always at their best. ”

- Jean Giraudoux

“ We could swallow it among these teenagers in the midst of all their angst. We're not used to seeing that with male characters. It's kind of jarring because it almost makes you squirm. ”

- Robert Thompson

“ This is an area you always need to address when you're dealing with Dracula is the fact that there is something kind of attractive in his darkness - which there isn't in other horror characters. ”

- Richard Roxburgh

“ I don't ever want to be doing the same sort of thing, I never want to be typecast, because I have way too much to give to be sort of, to always be the hot chick in the movie. ”

- Elisha Cuthbert

“ There's a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there's a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect. ”

- Roseanne Barr

“ I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers — because males have got to try and justify their existence. ”

- Orson Welles

“ A chic type, a rough type, an odd type - but never a stereotype. ”

- Jean Michel Jarre

“ Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote. Writing is writing and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure? ”

- Tanith Lee

“ There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types, and those who don't. ”

- Unknown

“ The ideal American type is perfectly expressed by the Protestant, individualist, anti-conformist, and this is the type that is in the process of disappearing. In reality there are few left. ”

- Orson Welles

“ The Republican form of government is the highest form of government; but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature — a type nowhere at present existing. ”

- Herbert Spencer

“ It's against type in the sense of my background, but it's with type in the sense that I am a loner who's new to this business and sceptical about a lot of it. ”

- Ben McKenzie

“ He's much more of a veteran than I am in the genre,... He encouraged me to trust my instincts and tried to pull me into more improvisation. I'll get there, but this is not that film for me. It was more of what Gary had in mind; he heard the way the characters speak in his ear when he wrote the words. ”

- Diane Lane

“ The theater's much the most difficult kind of writing for me, the most naked kind, you're so entirely restricted.... I find myself stuck with these characters who are either sitting or standing, and they've either got to walk out of a door, or come in through a door, and that's about all they can do. ”

- Harold Pinter

“ There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who has ever done a kind deed for us, ;or spoken one word of encouragement to us, has entered into the make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as well as our success. ”

- Matthew

“ But as you say, the fundamental stumbling block is the question of the future of the economy. And it's not just the sort of economic laboratory question, of what kind of system would best generate growth, which is the way it's presented. ”

- Joe Slovo

“ There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness, and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness, and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity. ”

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

“ I don't think so, in that Virgin is already a global brand. Brands like Amazon have had to spend hundreds of millions of pounds you know, building their brands, whereas Virgin is already well-known around the world. ”

- Richard Branson

“ There's no question that curiosity is kind of key to the human experience, so it's also kind of adorable embodying curiosity in this little monkey. I'm not sure what breed George is, but he sure is cute. ”

- Ron Howard

“ When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it. Without the laugh, there is no Tao. ”

- Lao tzu

“ I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. ”

- An English Professor

“ Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. ”

- Putt’s Law

“ There are two types of people — those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'. ”

- Frederick L Collins
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