The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.plato
The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character. Mike Tyson
The league, is doing well. It is just a matter of trying to sort some things out with my contract. Cobi Jones
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.Lord Chesterfield
The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence. Tammy Bruce
The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware. Instead of writing and saying, 'This is what the character does,' you say, 'Wait, millions of people are going to read this.' It's sort of like a tennis player who thinks too hard about a stroke - you're temporarily crippled. Dan Brown
The trouble is that right now I want to put as much work into football as I can. It's very important for me to get off to a good start. By the same token, I feel a responsibility to handle the media and those sort of things. Doug Flutie
There is a need for aloneness, which I don't think most people realise for an actor. It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you're acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They'd all like sort of a chunk of you. Marilyn Monroe
Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. Jonathan Carroll
We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people. Sugar Ray Leonard
What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly what happens to kids. I see literature as a method of guidance, information, and contemplation, and consider it the greatest compliment possible when a reader tells me that a book of mine really made him/her think. Wendelin Van Draanen
What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality. Candace Parker
Yes, for a long time but I admired her and respected everything that I could sort of see in her from a distance, the pillars of her life, the loyalties, the relationships. It all got my interest and also the looks. Andre Agassi
You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government. Bernard M. Baruch
You know, even big-time academics kind of have groupies. Anyone with any sort of fame. So, like, in your micro-world, or in your niche, you're kind of like a celebrity. Tucker Max