Tend Quotes

Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge.

I would prefer to keep my clothes on. Unless there's a brisk breeze or something, I tend to keep them on.

When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.

Like I said about Freaked, people tend to find these films, and I think that in the end the cool thing about a movie is that it can be sort of burnt temporarily, but then it's burnt into the fabric of your culture.

Not all of our work is dark, but when we are working on a dark project, we really tend to go there.

I, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if Evangelicals are going to sound believable when they say that they tend to vote Republican because of their religious commitments to the family.

So that what you tend to see is someone like a Rush Limbaugh, he's the classic case because he's the most successful, he didn't sort of like come out of his mother's womb with the highest ratings in the country.

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

The odd thing about being a writer is you do tend to lose yourself in your books. Sometimes it seems like real life is flickering by and you're hardly a part of it. You remember the events in your books better than you remember the events that actually took place when you were writing them.

I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.

Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own subjects, but to the emancipation of the slave everywhere.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.

I'm always attracted to lower budget, not because it's lower budget, but because they tend to be better scripts.

The actors nowadays, both young men and young ladies, don't always wear their period clothes as well as they might. They tend to stomp around a bit in them.

Empowerment of individuals is a key part of what makes open source work, since in the end, innovations tend to come from small groups, not from large, structured efforts.

I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.

I tend to like the most basic pieces with the perfect fit and fabric, like a simple tank.

But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths.

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.

I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won't be offended.

Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now.

In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.

The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while.

I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems.

With weak balance sheets, banks tend to continue lending unprofitable businesses and leave them existing.

Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.