#tends

One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it. ↗

— E. M. Forster

#because #book #got #long #long book

Power confuses itself with virtue and tends also to take itself for omnipotence. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#confuses #itself #omnipotence #power #take

I'm one of those writers who tends to be really good at making outlines and sticking to them. I'm very good at doing that, but I don't like it. It sort of takes a lot of the fun out. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#fun #good #i #like #lot

My clothes have always been expensive. Even though I have had a few lower-priced lines over the years, little by little everything I do tends toward the luxury market. ↗

— Jean Paul Gaultier

#been #clothes #even #everything #expensive

The majority of my background is multi-camera format, which is very broad and a very arch perception of reality. Whereas single camera tends to be more truthful and a little more intimate of a medium. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

#background #broad #camera #format #intimate

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#between #consenting #consenting adults #curtail #department

A diva is someone who pretends to know who she is and looks fabulous doing it. ↗

— Jenifer Lewis

#doing #fabulous #know #looks #pretends

When there's trouble in a family, it tends to show up in the weakest member. And all the other members of the family know that. They make allowances for the one in trouble. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#family #know #make #member #members

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth. ↗

— Sydney Madwed

#everything #financial #himself #his #intrinsic

A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things. ↗

— Yann Martel

#how #imagined #might #movie #out