Best 764 quotes in «fit quotes» category

We're all flawed human beings and we all have a cauldron of psychosis which we have to unravel as we grow older and find the way we fit in to live our lives as best as possible.

We're changing ourselves to fit the world instead of changing the world to fit women.

We're kind of a weird band anyway, where we never fit in with indie or pop. We never really sat with either of those genres fully.

We're not meant to fit in. We're meant to stand out.

We shall all be the gainers if we can create a world fit for small states to live in.

We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.

We want to be original. To express our most interesting stuff. But you don't see the word "original" come up very often to describe big bands. Our job isn't to pigeonhole ourselves or describe where we fit in. Our goal isn't to fit in. Our goal is to be free of all that stuff.

We were telling everybody we weren't getting back together when we were in the studio actually recording. We wanted to try it on, to see how it would fit.

What do I like about math? , When I've got figures in front of me, it relaxes me. Kind of like, everything fits where it belongs.

Whatever was written in the media was beyond me. The only thing I could control was getting fit.

What fits your busy schedule better, exercising one hour a day or being dead 24 hours a day?

What hap­pens to me if this slip­per fits?" "I turn you into a hand­some frog.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

What good it does one to have a hearty, uncontrollable fit of laughter.

When I look back, I did what I had to do for business and then fit family life into it.

When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.

When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly.

When I'm asked where libertarians fit on the left-right spectrum, I say we don't. We're above the line.

What I've learned being a writer is to just basically not buckle - not be belligerent, not be angry, not throw fits. Though there are times where you have to stand up and yell. If I've got to throw a chair, I'll throw a chair. There was a meekness about me when I started, and I think the meekness has sort of evaporated. I hope that it's left behind a more passionate person, not a meaner person. So I guess that's what I've learned.

When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints, but exert your whole care to hide it; by endeavouring to hide it; you will dry it away. Be always busy.

When God saw fit to bestow such a gift, a man with any sense didn’t ask questions.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

When I go to teach, that's not my workout. It's my show. I'm 134 pounds - I'm a teeny thing. I work out 11/2 hours a day and eat 1,600 calories. I can't stray because I have to fit into these Dolfin shorts!

When I see a spade, I call it a spade. I'm glad to say I have never seen a spade. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use it. It's the only thing he's fit for.

When we finally had a cast and could see what they could do, here was an opportunity to go back and modify things. We didn't actually do that much modifying, but we did enough to make it feel as if they fit in their own skin, and we got a lot of good input from them. They're a terrific cast. They worked really hard.

When schemes are laid in advance, it is surprising how often the circumstances will fit in with them.

When we consider that women are treated as property it is degrading to women that we should treat our children as property to be disposed of as we see fit.

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

When you don't know where you fit inside the home and you're young and you're desperate to fit in somewhere, I'd figured where I would fit outside the home. So I made some obviously bad decisions about who I hung out with and the things that I did.

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

When you get up in the morning and know you're doing something you love, feel fit and look after yourself, it's just a great thing to do.

Where I fit in is confusing to me.

When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to hear, and then you will see how you will move the speaker.

Where is the stretch? Where is the perfect fit? Where does it make sense? You have to be a Baryshnikov.

Whose the cap fit, let them where it.

Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.

Why do a crappy film role when you can do a meaty stage role? and ...I'm not small and curvy and I don't fit the prerequiste for small, passive, sexy chicks.

Why fit in when you're born to stand out?

Why try to fit in when you a stand out?

With any mannerisms or dialogue, you have to be careful you're not just serving yourself. What happens with improving is a lot of times, if you're not in the framework of the script, you're just making everything easier so it fits you. It's much more interesting and challenging to go to it, rather than it coming to you.

With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.

Will you succeed because you are more well-rounded than others? Because you fit in better than everyone else? Bloody unlikely. We succeed when we are trusted to be the best at what we do.

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.

Women are socialized to be nice, to be docile. I call it 'shrink to fit': Shrink yourself to fit what others expect of you.

Women always seemed to bring the size they wished they were to the fitting room, rather than the size that would actually fit.

Workers are actually being starved on the largest military base in Baghdad, and women are being raped with impunity - and because it doesn't fit into a Hollywood context it's not going to fly.

Yes I have a belt. I wear big pants because my ass is huge. So I can't go to a store by off the rack a size that is appropriate for my waist because they don't fit my ass!

Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.

You can either fit in or stand out. Not both.