All Quotes

For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.
‐‐ Mo Yan

For a country is not merely a piece of earth; it is, above all, a compendium of social, cultural, and historical factors which begin to acquire sense and order through the process of writing.
‐‐ Juan Goytisolo

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
‐‐ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

For a couple of days after chemotherapy, food tastes really bland, even the best foods. I haven't been sick, but have been a little tired. I haven't lost any weight.
‐‐ Grete Waitz

For a couple of years at the end of the 1970s, Dustin Hoffman was a fixture in our family. My father was his lawyer and friend.
‐‐ John Burnham Schwartz

For a couple of years, I focused more on producing because I wanted to be close to home, after traveling a lot for work.
‐‐ Mark Consuelos

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
‐‐ George Orwell

For a crowd to be smart, the people in it need to be not only diverse in their perspectives but also, relatively speaking, independent of each other. In other words, you need people to be thinking for themselves, rather than following the lead of those around them.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.
‐‐ Michael Sheen

For 'A.D.,' when I got the script, I was really moved, because even though it told a story that I knew all my life, it was told in a different way. It was told from a very personal point of view.
‐‐ Juan Pablo Di Pace

For a date night with my girlfriend, we go to Zuma for Japanese.
‐‐ DJ Khaled

For a decade, I had been studying a transparent worm, the C. elegans. I immediately thought, if you could put the G.F.P. gene into C. elegans, you'd then be able to see biological processes in live animals. Until then, we had to kill them and prepare their tissues chemically to visualize proteins or active genes within cells.
‐‐ Martin Chalfie

For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.
‐‐ Gayle Lynds

For a decade, makers of AIDS medicines had rejected the idea of lowering prices in poor countries for fear of eroding profits in rich ones. The position required a balancing act, because the companies had to deflect attacks on the global reach of their patents, which granted exclusive marketing rights for antiretroviral drugs.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.
‐‐ James Fallows

For a developing country, average long-run growth of 5 percent a year per capita is excellent, and 7 percent is stellar.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him.
‐‐ Lionel Blue

For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and I choose you, the person across from me, to share it with. There's a beautiful intimacy in a meal like that.
‐‐ Anthony Bourdain

For a director, a musical is a special kind of hell.
‐‐ Mike Nichols

For a director and a producer to be named on the writing credits is practically unheard of.
‐‐ Terry Southern

For a director, the most challenging scenes are the dialogue scenes.
‐‐ Bruce Beresford

For a DJ at my level, you can really go through life and travel the world without seeing a single thing. It's harder to go out and see the sights than it is to play a show.
‐‐ Steve Aoki

For a documentary filmmaker, I do very well.
‐‐ Michael Moore

For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.
‐‐ Rumer Godden

For a few months, I'd have a green juice every day, but one day, I realized I'd rather eat those ingredients than drink them.
‐‐ Ellie Kemper

For a few months when I was about 17, I smoked a small cigar because I thought it looked cool and it would get me the girls. It didn't.
‐‐ Jonathan Dimbleby

For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last century, in stuttering succession, we have gained a voice, a vote, a room, a playing field of our own. Decorously or defiantly, we now approach what surely qualifies as the final frontier.
‐‐ Stacy Schiff

For a few years, I thought I was putting show business behind me. I was busy doing other things in life, particularly with politics. I was not out looking for films, really. I lost interest.
‐‐ Hugh Grant

For a few years, I went down a path where I forgot to be in the moment and enjoy the moment.
‐‐ Liam Hemsworth

For a few years, more people have been leaving our country than entering it. Wherever it is possible, we must lower the entry hurdles for those who bring the country forward.
‐‐ Angela Merkel

For a few years, skeins of yarn piled up in baskets around the house. There weren't enough humans in my mother's orbit to wear all the scarves and sweaters and hats she knitted. And then, as suddenly as she started, she lost interest, leaving needles still entwined in half-finished fragments.
‐‐ Christina Baker Kline

For a film to be made is a small miracle. And sometimes it's a large one.
‐‐ Ava DuVernay

For a film to be viable, it has to survive this process of scrutiny. I think most filmmakers have obsessive-compulsive tendencies and would be completely unemployable in any other job - so it's great to be able to channel your psychological anomalies into something productive and creative.
‐‐ James Marsh

For a film, when you condense, you don't want to keep going back to the same setting over and over.
‐‐ Catherine Hardwicke

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.
‐‐ Ang Lee

For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.
‐‐ Joe Greene

For a foreigner, L.A. is such a big, wonderful and weird place that, until you find your niche, you feel a little bit discombobulated.
‐‐ David Lyons

For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all.
‐‐ Graham Nelson

For a found-footage-style movie, there's a definite advantage in using unknowns, because it helps sell the illusion that it's real. A known actor would get in the way of the suspension of disbelief.
‐‐ Oren Peli

For a franchise system to work well, you really need people with an entrepreneurial mind-set because, while you have a large, overarching system that everybody has to work with, a lot of local issues have to be handled.
‐‐ Fred DeLuca

For a free country to continue thriving, there have to be regular reforms, because any society, any economy that stays in place, you're going to see repeated attempts to exploit the openings for twisting policy to the advantage of those who already have wealth and power.
‐‐ Al Gore

For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.
‐‐ Ken Mehlman

For a girl, the wedding is when you're married. For a guy, it's when you get engaged. It takes a real aggressive human being to back out between the ring and the wedding.
‐‐ Max Greenfield

For a good 10 to 12 years, I was working non-stop and I wasn't really enjoying my success.
‐‐ Shania Twain

For a good chunk of Israelis, it doesn't matter who is in power when it comes to dealing with the Palestinians. Their focus was more on economic issues.
‐‐ Jonathan Katz

For a good workout, I go to At One Fitness in North Hollywood, where my trainer, Jon Allsop, puts me through it all. I like it because it's a small gym and I've known the people for a long time. Jon will have me do cross-training where I'll lift weights, jump rope, throw around a medicine ball and I never get to stop.
‐‐ Tim DeKay

For a 'GOT' premiere, I wore a white dress by Antonio Berardi, which fitted beautifully. And I felt empowered by the Jenny Packham gown I wore for 'The Last Witch Hunter' premiere. That is the beauty of the designer - to help a woman or man feel that way.
‐‐ Rose Leslie

For a government to declare a vice to be a crime, and to punish it as such, is an attempt to falsify the very nature of things. It is as absurd as it would be to declare truth to be falsehood, or falsehood truth.
‐‐ Lysander Spooner

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.
‐‐ Smedley Butler

For a group of friends or a family dinner, fish tacos are popular and fun to make.
‐‐ Tom Douglas