Kind Quotes

Quick question. Does this magical skill with gray matter come with a total lack of compunction for your kind, or is it just you who were born without a conscience? V: I beg your pardon?

I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.

The word 'paradox' has always had a kind of magic for me, and I think my pictures have a paradoxical quality, a paradox of chaos and order in one.

Holding together a kind of tension. When you see a painting that's really good that's what it's doing.

A painting, you know, it's all dirty material. But it's about transformation. Taking that earth, that heavy earthen kind of thing, turning it into air and light.

I love storytelling so for me to get behind a story and get in there early in its infancy and kind of develop it in the early stages was something I really wanted to be a part of.

I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themselves up, but because you actually kind of learn more and I think you grow more.

There are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic.

[A difficult childhood gave me] a kind of cocky confidence. ... I could never have so little that I hadn't had less. It took away my fear.

There are certain songs that I like to listen to at certain times of the day. For example, first thing in the morning I love listening to "Flamenco Sketches" off of Miles Davis' Kind of Blue.

[C]apitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich.

Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.

A part of my kind of design and inspiration ethos is that I carry around a leather notebook and I sketch in it, doodle in it, write notes in it and I put pictures in it.

You can make your own son or daughter one of a kind if you have the time and will to do so; school can only make them part of a hive, herd or anthill.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.

When I think back kind of on starting my career, the last place I thought I would be would be spending a lot of time in Brooklyn.

My family had all kinds of complications in relationships. I would like to meet the person who did not. Since when is being absolutely perfect what being a human is? What do we gain from that?

I'm kind of ADD in that sense where if I start liking something, I'll just learn it to the absolute max.

So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safe

Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed.

I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.

The winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows.

Make your face not look like your face by piling on like the heaviest makeup you can find and do it with some kind of brush that won't judge you.

Like when I had long hair, you kind of got male attention from everything. But when you had short hair, it was a different kind of man that was attracted to you or I found coming up.

There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family one descends from.

And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.

Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven.

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.

My personal style is kind of tomboy-boho chic! Sort of funky but simple.

I have to get involved in my own kind of way 'cause I always want to respect my own judgments. I have to respect my own time.

The goal is to give people a free encyclopedia to every person in the world, in their own language. Not just in a 'free beer' kind of way, but also in the free speech kind of way.

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.

My style of comedy is very real and bittersweet, and sort of always on the verge of kind of being tragic.

I'm trying to, with my stand-up and with the podcast, give people these little stupid things to give them happiness. I know that sounds lofty or like I'm starting a cult, but I kind of feel that way.

I think I ended up on 'People”s '50 Most Beautiful People' list just because of eyeliner, which is kind of a bummer. But if you do find the right color, it will make your eyes pop.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

I think that the music we create together is one of a kind.

Being sexy is kind of funny to me.

To fill a world with ... religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.

I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.

I'm surrounded by it. I have so many lovely people around me who are supportive, gentle, kind and considerate. I'm so grateful for every day that I'm on the planet and that continues to be so.

I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of.

I do believe in love; it's wonderful - especially love third time around, it's even more precious; it's kind of amazing.

I'm not "filled with my art". I ain't got no art. I've got only a kind of craftsman's skill, and make stories as I make biscuits or embroider underwear or wrap up packages.

The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.

I've always wanted to do a female buddy film, the kind the guys get to do.

Time is a kind friend, he will make us old.