Tend Quotes

Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

There's a tendency to fall into certain habits, but if you tell yourself not to do that and if you don't stay there too long - I think if you start staying for too long, you tend to fall into certain bad habits, and I tried not to do that.

I did not deal well with the politicians. I tend to tell people that when they are full of crap, that they are full of crap.

People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me.

People tend to think that because I need all this time on my own in the studio, that I need time on my own, period. And that's not really true.

The chemicals in the dishwashing process tend not to be good for saucepans.

I'm glad I have an outlet. I don't think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world.

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

I don't know why I do what I do. I tend to go for the really weird, bizarre stuff. I actually have to tone it down for the show.

Without hurting anybody, we all tend to laugh at others' discomfort. When someone slips on a banana skin and falls it's funny.

Rap is hardcore street music but there are women out there who can hang with the best male rappers. What holds us back is that girls tend to rap in these high, squeaky voices. It's irritating. You've gotta rap from the diaphragm.

The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.

We train in the mornings, and then I go home and rest or sleep, and usually I go for a meal with Abel of a night, as we're the two with no family here, so we tend to hang around together.

I will accept no commission that would tend to create a rivalry with Grant. I want him to hold what he has earned and got. I have all the rank I want.

Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.

Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for us.

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

In athletics, older runners tend to go for longer races, but it's the opposite in swimming because your body can't handle the endurance.

As for goals, I don't set myself those anymore. I'm not one of these 'I must have achieved this and that by next year' kind of writers. I take things as they come and find that patience and persistence tend to win out in the end.

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

I don't tend to think of these characters as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.

I tend to think of the organ as part of the rhythm section, rather than a frontline voice.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.

People tend to think that I know less about what I'm talking about than I actually do - usually people who think that all aristocrats are stupid.

I tend to sleep in the nude... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like I'm boasting.

Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach.