For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
‐‐ Douglas Adams
For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past.
‐‐ Rick Perlstein
For a movie - any movie - to work, all the bread has to fall jelly side up; everything has to go right. You have to hit the zeitgeist.
‐‐ Jon Favreau
For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.
‐‐ Aeschylus
For a nanosecond in the pre-Internet pre-digital age, I was a hot young actor, in the sense of popular, and then it passed.
‐‐ Kenneth Branagh
For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
‐‐ Robert Benchley
For a North Korean watcher, seeing 'The Interview' is like seeing an earnest endeavor reflected back through a freak-show mirror.
‐‐ Barbara Demick
For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
‐‐ Milan Kundera
For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.
‐‐ Khaled Hosseini
For a novelist, no matter what, it's a complete work, even if it's not published. But if you write a screenplay, and it's not performed, then it's a sad and frustrating experience.
‐‐ Susan Isaacs
For a novelist, the great thing about the Stone Age people is that we know virtually nothing about their beliefs - which means that I get to make it up! But it's still got to be plausible.
‐‐ Michelle Paver
For a number of major companies, if you can't access the commercial markets, you can't fund your business. That's a big problem. You can't pay your bills.
‐‐ Kenneth Chenault
For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid.
‐‐ David Fincher
For a number of years I was relentlessly pursued by 10 to 15 men, almost daily. Spat at, verbally abused.
‐‐ Sienna Miller
For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.
‐‐ Sacha Baron Cohen
For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need to worry, and when they do need to seek urgent care.
‐‐ Margaret Chan
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson
For a performer, passion is far more important than technical skills. If a dancer's leg isn't at a perfect angle, I can see past that, but if someone's dead in the face, it's really boring.
‐‐ Louise Nurding
For a period in the '90s, I felt that the Cure was massively undervalued. But there has been a paradigm shift. There's a bunch of newer bands coming up who've grown up listening to the Cure and don't understand that you're not supposed to like us.
‐‐ Robert Smith
For a period of 17 years - from the age of 9 until I was 25 years old - my mother never spent a day free from domestic difficulties.
‐‐ Chiang Kai-shek
For a period of time, I carried cameras with me wherever I went, and then I realized that my interest in photography was turning toward the conceptual. So I wasn't carrying around cameras shooting stuff, I was developing concepts about what I wanted to shoot. And then I'd get the camera angle and do the job.
‐‐ Leonard Nimoy
For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.
‐‐ Bjork
For a person of my sensibility, you're only left with the Democratic party.
‐‐ Neil Peart
For a person to be truly discipled and growing in their faith, they need more than one person discipling them.
‐‐ Francis Chan
For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.
‐‐ Maya Angelou
For a person who is dying only eternity counts.
‐‐ Friedrich Durrenmatt
For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
‐‐ Karl Rove
For a photographer, sharks are a stirring subject, possessing a perfect blend of grace and power. They have been sculpted by evolution and are ideally suited for whichever ecosystem they inhabit, from coral reefs to the open ocean.
‐‐ Brian Skerry
For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.
‐‐ Edward Dowden
For a privileged minority, Western democracy provides the leisure, the facilities, and the training to seek the truth lying hidden behind the veil of distortion and misrepresentation, ideology and class interest, through which the events of current history are presented to us.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky
For a producer, you want to be in L.A. You want to be close to the action, and in L.A. there are always singers, artists, songwriters, collaborators and other producers. It's easy to get access to all that, which gives you more opportunity to work records.
‐‐ Steve Aoki
For a production that suggests a mysterious dreamscape, I have a particular affection for the Vivian Beaumont Theater. It is the largest dramatic space available in New York City in terms of plays, although musicals have been done there very successfully as well.
‐‐ Jack O'Brien
For a professional writer in the Soviet Union, it works this way. First, you have to have something to say - that's the main thing. Second, it's a matter of who publishes you. If your book has real stuff in it, readers will ferret it out, even in a Siberian journal.
‐‐ Anatoly Rybakov
For a quarter of a century, I've been playing baseball for pay. It has been pretty good pay, most of the time. The work has been hard, but what of it? It's been risky. I've broken both my legs. I've sprained everything I've got between my ankles and my disposition. I've dislocated my joints and fractured my pride.
‐‐ Rabbit Maranville
For a quick, healthy meal that's also fun for kids, I serve fish tacos: soft tortillas, lettuce, tomatoes, black beans and brown rice.
‐‐ Kim Raver
For a rapper as well-known as Drake, there remains an essential element of mystery about him. For one so open, there's a distance, and he prefers it that way. But then there's something beneath the exterior that reveals itself with urgency in conversation: Drake's raw ambition.
‐‐ Michael Paterniti
For a real New India to arise, all petty and small things must be given up. To be redeemed, all Indians must offer to sacrifice not only their good things, but all those evil things they cling to blindly - their hates and their divisions, their pride in what they should be thoroughly ashamed of, their quarrels and misunderstandings.
‐‐ Muhammad Ali Jinnah
For a really long time in my life, I fought against how I look. Because I was raised Catholic in school, where everyone had to wear a suit and tie. I hated everything that stood for. And I realized when I walked down the street, everyone would see the guy I hated and not the guy I was.
‐‐ Kurt Braunohler
For a really relaxing time, you want to go to a place where the work ethic hasn't taken hold, where the culture hasn't been taken over by the western values of constant striving.
‐‐ Tom Hodgkinson
For a rich and reasonably successful guy, it is impossible not to enjoy your job; otherwise, why would you spend so much time and effort doing it? I am a great fan of Norilsk, and I like this kind of challenge.
‐‐ Vladimir Potanin
For a romantic comedy to be three hours long, that's longer than most marriages.
‐‐ David Fincher
For a scientific theory of him to be possible, man, including his habits of valuation, has to be taken as determined by causal laws, as an instance and part of nature.
‐‐ Hans Jonas
For a scientist, it is a unique experience to live through a period in which his field of endeavour comes to bloom - to be witness to those rare moments when the dawn of understanding finally descends upon what appeared to be confusion only a while ago - to listen to the sound of darkness crumbling.
‐‐ George Emil Palade
For a sculptor, a painter, a weaver, a potter, the dialogue between one's materials and what one makes from them is easy to see: discover a new material or a new way to use a familiar one, and new things can be made, sometimes leading to the discovery of more new material, leading to more creation.
‐‐ Andrea Barrett
For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds.
‐‐ Sarah Palin
For a selfie, it's not about the pose, it's about you. There's a reason why you look great in the picture or you look great in real life, because someone has caught the essence of who you are, and a pose is not you.
‐‐ Nigel Barker
For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain.
‐‐ Saul Kripke
For a seriously autistic kid, the best prognosis might be getting into a mainstream school without being too much of a shadow. For a moderately autistic kid the best prognosis is full recovery.
‐‐ Jenny McCarthy
For a short time I was an assistant to a professional photographer, and I felt that my soul was not there. That is the stage when I decided to stay in London and do a graduate degree.
‐‐ Ori Gersht
For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.
‐‐ Chief Joseph