A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.
Jim Bishop

All pain is per se and especially in excess, destructive and ultimately fatal in its nature and effects.
James Young Simpson

But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.
Mel Torme

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.
Charles Eames

Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.
Marilyn Hacker

I didn't really have an act per se - a theatrical performance, as opposed to just: here I am, folks, and you're all supposed to be dead quiet while I sing eight or nine songs, then get off the stage.
Mel Torme

I don't have a burning passion to live in America per se but I would certainly like to work there.
Cillian Murphy

I don't know anyone who would be exclusively working on game music, per se.
Nobuo Uematsu

I don't know if I miss it per se, but I do miss the fact that there just doesn't seem to be any rock 'n' roll out there anyplace. Everything does seem kind of tame. It's even hard in Manhattan to go out and find a good band to go see.
Joan Jett

I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.
Brittany Murphy

I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up.
Dan Millman

I just saw Jensen the other day. They are gonna be in the States at the same time when we are doing the tour, Se we'll see if we are going to see somewhere.
Kerry King

I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or effects.
Barbara Hershey

I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine.
Steven Levy

I'm not against ratings per se. I think more information is always good. But I certainly don't think the government has to step in and set guidelines for how shows should be rated.
Drew Carey

I'm not an activist per se, but I have strong feelings about things. People can jump on celebrities for being ill-informed or naive, but I've got a right to say what I believe.
Ed Harris

Ignorance per se is not nearly as dangerous as ignorance of ignorance.
Sydney J. Harris

Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.
David Foster Wallace

The great advance of personal computers was not the computing power per se but the fact that it brought it right to your face, that you had control over it, that were confronted with it and could steer it.
Kevin Kelly

The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
Samuel Morse