#times

I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless. ↗

— Robert Caro

#did #endures #feel #gee #i

Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage. ↗

— Robert Caro

#ballet #beautiful #beautiful thing #concentrating #during

When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way. ↗

— John Zorn

#get #gets #i #i feel #i feel like

Everybody, even me, sometimes had to compromise on something, doing things we know to be wrong, and this happens doing whatever job in the world. But a singer must have the courage of saying no. ↗

— Jose Carreras

#courage #doing #even #everybody #had

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose. ↗

— John le Carre

#confidence #greatest #her #history #i

You know, back in the 1950s and '60s, when J. Edgar Hoover was making the FBI the respected organization it used to be, oftentimes they would find a fugitive and basically have his house surrounded, and then put out a press release saying he was on the top 10 most wanted list. And 10 minutes later, he'd be arrested. ↗

— Howie Carr

#back #basically #edgar #fbi #find

Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason. ↗

— James Carville

#gets #reason #right #right reason #right thing

Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie. ↗

— Jackie Chan

#bad guy #die #guy #i #like

When I'm in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself 'why?' ↗

— Jackie Chan

#filming #get #hours #i #later

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#custom #dancing #learn #made #man