Tends Quotes

One tends to write beyond what's needed.

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.

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise.

I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.

There tends to be a lot of autism around the tech centers... when you concentrate the geeks, you're concentrating the autism genetics.

But when researchers at Bell Labs discovered that static tends to come from particular places in the sky, the whole field of radio astronomy opened up.

I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.

The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

The vice presidential candidate tends to be a bit of an afterthought.

The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.

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 have always liked running, so it wasn't particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.

Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.

Shareware tends to combine the worst of commercial software with the worst of free software.

Any new technology tends to go through a 25-year adoption cycle.

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.

When you put a group of actors together who get along, and we have since day one, they don't become like their roles. What tends to happen is their age disappears and they all deal with each other as friends.

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

So when you make an impression in a certain kind of role, that tends to be the type of role that you get offered.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

Everybody in the real world will agree - the moment a project is behind deadline, quality assurance tends to go out the window.

Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools.

I have a personality that tends to be somewhat compulsive, and I do tend to think in a circular way. I dwell on the same things over and over and I try to figure out different ways of looking at the same issue.

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

I'm terrible as I never take my make-up off at night, which I know is really dreadful. Whenever I'm out partying I just can't be bothered and now I am on 'Loose Women' that tends to be all the time. I hope next year holds even more parties for me.

Where I've arrived now is the product of mixing the very straight with the very exploratory; there's a fine line between the two, although it tends to be getting straighter and straighter because my songwriting is getting better.

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.