Tag - Apt Quotes

Siri Hustvedt

The English expression ‘to fall asleep’ is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams.

– Siri Hustvedt

Sherman Alexie

I think that white women are more apt to read laterally. So I think there’s some strong identification for women, and their political and social positions, and minorities. I think that the political power of, let’s say, the average Indian man and a white woman are pretty equal.

– Sherman Alexie

Samuel Richardson

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

– Samuel Richardson

Roy Harper

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you’ve done it.

– Roy Harper

Rodney Crowell

My mother was apt to fall out on the floor and start speaking in tongues. Actually, it was a great performance… It was great theater. As a 5-year-old, I understood that, although it scared me and there was a little part of me going, ‘I don’t know about this. This seems over-the-top to me,’ at the same time, I did understand that this was passion.

– Rodney Crowell

Robin Lopez

I think the four men of the Beatles are an apt comparison for one Robin Lopez.

– Robin Lopez

Robert Hall

Mankind are apt to be strongly prejudiced in favor of whatever is countenanced by antiquity, enforced by authority, and recommended by custom.

– Robert Hall

Robert Cormier

The beautiful part of writing is that you don’t have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.

– Robert Cormier

Robert Beltran

I am not the kind of person who lets complete strangers into my world. The more they know about me, the more they are apt to make judgments about something that doesn’t concern my performance.

– Robert Beltran

Reggie Jackson

When you hit a player in the head, you’re more apt to get some fisticuffs or, you know, bring both teams out on the field, but it was more accepted that – in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. I think nowadays it’s a little over-policed because I will always believe that knocking a hitter down, even hitting a hitter at, sometimes, is part of baseball.

– Reggie Jackson

Raghava Lawrence

The producers and I felt that ‘Kanchana 2’ would be the apt title when compared to ‘Muni 3.’ Because, it goes with the prequel and will immediately strike a chord with the audience.

– Raghava Lawrence

4th Earl of Chesterfield Philip Stanhope

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

– Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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