Tend Quotes

The bulk of the emails tend to come after a column. I can get about 2,000 after a column.

I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have fun.

British crime stories tend to be very internal, psychological, claustrophobic, very limited in terms of geography.

The irony is that the more unapologetically sexist men are in movies, the more women tend to be attracted to them in person.

They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.

Really, I'm incredibly disjointed and not candid. Just in general, my thoughts tend to come out in little spurts that don't necessarily connect. If you hang around long enough, you can find the linear path. But it will take a second. That is why these interviews never go well for me.

Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.

It seems that we have it backward in our society. We tend to look up to people who are under a great deal of stress, who can handle loads of stress, and those who are under a great deal of pressure.

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the background it out of focus. You know, it's just a mush.

The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.

We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all; there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.

I tend not to know what the plot is or the story is or even the theme. Those things come later, for me.

In this kind of situation, we tend to cling to his convictions, we believe that, by magic, we are going to recover. Then we agree to drive less good cars and we are fatally more exposed. It is what finally happened to me with Ensign.

The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our history as a sure and steady march toward greatness.

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.

If I'm at home for the weekend - and that is almost never - I tend to get twitchy at about eight o'clock in the evening because my body clock is timed to go on stage. I don't know what to do with myself.

Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.

More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked hard and met every expectation. I strove to achieve in the excessive way that psychotherapists tend to regard with concern.

I never felt at home in London, because people were constantly telling me I didn't belong here, so after a while, you tend to believe that.

I think people tend to feel odd when I do my act. Unless you are an ironic person, it's not a good place for you to be.

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

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.

It's interesting, because I tend to trust a man with big ears.

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