Quotes of: Apt Keyword

As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.

Buffalo Bill

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.

Ben Hecht

Any one reflecting upon the thought he has of the delight, which any present or absent thing is apt to produce in him, has the idea we call love.

John Locke

It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts and litigation.

Frederick Pollock

I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it's something fantastic. They're willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy.

Cindy Sherman

There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.

Joseph Butler

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Ellen Glasgow

I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.

Gunter Grass

I don't write about too many male businessmen, and I'm not apt to write about too many female businessmen.

John Updike

I want people to believe me when I play a part and they are less apt to if they know a lot about me and have associations about me.

John Hawkes

A poor man is not disposed to quick and high resentment when he is among the rich: he is apt to yield to others, for he knows others are above him: he is not stiff and self-willed; he is patient with hard fare; he expects no other than to be despised...

The Religious Affections

Do not be disingenuous with me, Colonel Graff. Americans are quite apt at playing stupid when they choose to, but I am not to be deceived.

Ender's Game

Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't.

Edward T. Hall

It's good advice, but I expect it will be hard to follow; good advice is apt to be, I think.

Anne of Green Gables

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

The Last of the Mohicans

The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Her anger said, as anger is apt to say, that God was with her— that all heaven, though it were crowded with spirits watching them, must be on her side.

Middlemarch

Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.

Teju Cole

When you hurry you're more apt to make mistakes. But you have to be quick. If you're not quick you can't get things done.

John Wooden

When you try to do something bigger and more grandiose, a lot of times it's more apt to fall apart. It's a lot easier to lay down a bunch of singles than it is to get a home run.

Jim Lee