Side Quotes

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.

I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.

There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them.

I look at decisions like - it's like an Indiana Jones movie. The guy comes to a rope ladder, and he's being chased. There's uncertainty on the other side, but he knows when he gets to the other side, he's going to take his machete and cut the rope ladder behind him. He has no retreat.

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

It shows 'us vs. them,' and I'm on the 'us' side.

I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.'

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

Any film which views the darker side of life, which is death with a sense of humor, is very much to my taste.

With my hours, I don't hang out with anybody. I work and come home to my Upper West Side apartment.

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.

I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on one side. It's a nice barrier against super high heat which tends to make a lot of fish to turn really flaky. It's very easy to overcook fish on the grill. But I still brush it with oil before I start.

A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?

The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.

When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.

But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.

I don't think that strategically it is smart to begin cutting your options when the other side does not move at all.

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

I think my songwriting might be a little more on the darker side maybe.

In 1844, there was a balance of perhaps of a couple of thousand dollars on the cr side.

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.

I like Twitter a lot. It is a great way to get the fans knowing another side of you.

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.

Those days if you drove cross country and you broke down on the side of the road, and the sign says 200 miles to the next gas station, you knew you were so screwed.

Tape is wonderful at preserving evidence - fingerprints, hairs, fibers. Tape preserves this, especially on the sticky side, even if the body's been out there for a year.