Tend Quotes

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.

People tend to believe the bad rather than the good.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don't.

What's interesting is that both men and women are struggling with this issue in remarkably similar percentages, but the big difference is that women tend to talk about this when men keep it silent.

I live in New York, where people don't tend to go up to actors as much.

And their pals vote for their stuff when they're not on the panel, and it just keeps going that way. And they tend to be very fringe artists, so anything before the 20th century is not worth considering. This is out of date.

There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.

So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time.

Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.

A lot of times when we work overseas we tend to put the experience of someone who lives overseas, a Chinese person or a Korean person or a Bosnian person, within the prism of an American life.

I'm like 6'2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.

Almost all the fans I meet are pretty cool people. They're intelligent and tend to think about things a bit more than your average rock'n'roll fans: sensible people I wouldn't mind having a drink with.

I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.

I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.

Pianos tend to get better as they age, the more you play them. They grow into their sound.

I think IT projects are about supporting social systems-about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.

I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great.

Once I've written something it does tend to run away from me. I don't seem to have any part of it - it's no longer my piece of writing.

It's probably why I'm a short story writer. I tend to remember things in the past in narrative form, in story form, and I grew up around people who told stories all the time.

Less emphasis on inventories, I think, may tend to dampen business cycles, because business cycles are typically in the grasp of inventory cycles and heavy industry cycles.

I've been told before, and I tend to believe it, I'm not like most actresses out there.

And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.

Yes, free markets tend to produce unequal incomes. We should not be ashamed of that. On the contrary, our system is the envy of the world and should be a source of pride.

I think in general, romantic comedies tend to take one person's point of view, but every once in a while you get something that is balanced for two people.

In independent film you tend to have stories that involve more of a community, and the smaller characters are important to the story.

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest.

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.