Kind Quotes

Quentin is very organic; there was no way that he was going to put someone else's hand in there and anyway, my hands are kind of famous. It seemed right.

~ David Carradine

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

~ Muhammad Iqbal

Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling - it's in my nature, and so it's not even pretentious - that if everyone's going one way, I will go the other, just by some kind of spirit of defiance.

~ Charlotte Rampling

The big lesson of planetary science is when you do a first reconnaissance of a new kind of object, you should expect the unexpected.

~ Alan Stern

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.

~ Jean-François Lyotard

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

~ Edmund Husserl

I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.

~ Imogen Cunningham

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

~ Joshua Lederberg

Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true.

~ Steven Spielberg

If we are to negotiate the coming years safely, we may need a new kind of leadership. To put it more precisely, we need the rediscovery of an ancient kind of leadership that has rarely been given the prominence it deserves. I mean the leader as teacher.

~ Jonathan Sacks

About me - I used to want to be a P.E. teacher, and kind of still do.

~ Miranda Hart

I wanted to be Whitney Houston at first, and when I started taking voice lessons, my voice teacher kind of geared me more towards opera.

~ Megan Hilty

I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.

~ Adam Brody

I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.

~ Stephen Dorff

Music is a safe kind of high.

~ Jimi Hendrix

There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind.

~ Louis Armstrong

When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on the whole, I'm writing to that drum rather than the psychological process.

~ Tom Stoppard

Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist.

~ Jewel

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.

~ Charley Pride

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

~ Kin Hubbard

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

~ Debbie Harry

Every now and then, a lot of bands doing the same kind of music will organically sprout up at once.

~ Kathy Valentine

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

~ Raymond Chandler

A house with any kind of age will have dozens of stories to tell. I suppose if a novelist could live long enough, one could base an entire oeuvre on the lives that weave in and out of an antique house.

~ Anita Shreve

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

~ Maya Angelou

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

~ Charles De Montesquieu

Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!

~ Frederick William Faber

My happiness is not dictated on this business. Once I realized that, everything kind of changed.

~ Selena Gómez

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

~ Niccolò Machiavelli

There is but one kind of love; God is love, and all his creatures derive theirs from his; only it is modified by the different degrees of intelligence in different beings and creatures.

~ John James Audubon

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

~ Susan Sontag

If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.

~ Nicolas Cage

Newt Gingrich has a restless and outsized intelligence that is tragically unleavened by any kind of critical sensibility.

~ John Podhoretz

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.

~ Herbert Read

I have met with some of them - very honest fellows, who, with all their stupidity, had a kind of intelligence and an upright good sense, which cannot be the characteristics of fools.

~ Giacomo Casanova

I sometimes wonder if the tragedies my family has suffered are a kind of karmic price for all the fame and fortune the Bee Gees have had.

~ Robin Gibb

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.

~ Michael Tilson Thomas

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

~ Buddy Rich

Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning.

~ Antisthenes

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

~ Ambrose Bierce