All Quotes

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

I confess, I'm one of those actors who finds it incredibly hard to divorce myself and my performance from the work itself.
‐‐ Billy Crudup

I confess I sometimes sneak a peek at 'The Big Bang Theory.' I chuckle at their antics. But I cringe when they portray physicists as clueless nerds who are doormats when it comes to picking up women.
‐‐ Michio Kaku

I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
‐‐ Stanley Hauerwas

I confess I've got a yearning to go to Los Angeles, but I can't work out if it is because a lot of British actors seem to go or because there's this perception that the bottom has fallen out of British drama, so therefore, it's the place to head for.
‐‐ Richard C. Armitage

I confess I've never felt like a passenger.
‐‐ Roger Waters

I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive.
‐‐ Genevieve Bujold

I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.
‐‐ Thomas Hooker

I confess that as a young boy, Sunday was not my favorite day. Grandfather shut down the action. We didn't have any transportation. We couldn't drive the car. He wouldn't even let us start the motor. We couldn't ride the horses, or the steers, or the sheep.
‐‐ James E. Faust

I confess that for fifteen years my efforts in education, and my hopes of success in establishing a system of national education, have always been associated with the idea of coupling the education of this country with the religious communities which exist.
‐‐ Richard Cobden

I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in the first 40 pages, I abandon it. I have piles of half-read books waiting for me to get acute hepatitis or some other serious condition that would force me to rest so that I could read more.
‐‐ Isabel Allende

I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure.
‐‐ Herb Alpert

I confess that reading proofs is a pleasure. It stimulates and inspires me.
‐‐ Zane Grey

I confess that Roy was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time.
‐‐ Ben Shahn

I confess to being a CNN junkie. And when I'm driving, it's all NPR all the time.
‐‐ John Grogan

I confess to being a frustrated musician.
‐‐ Stella McCartney

I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle.
‐‐ Gary Locke

I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.
‐‐ Thomas Sydenham

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.
‐‐ Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I confused gender identity with sexual orientation. Your gender identity is about who you are, how you feel, the sex that you feel yourself to be. Sexual orientation is who you're attracted to.
‐‐ Chaz Bono

I confused things with their names: that is belief.
‐‐ Jean-Paul Sartre

I congratulate you, my brave countrymen and fellow soldiers, on the spirit and success with which you have executed this important part of our enterprise.
‐‐ James Wolfe

I connect emotionally to these songs. I mean what I say when I say it, and that allows your audience to connect. That's the number-one reason why any music is successful, because you make people feel something.
‐‐ Michael Buble

I connect fashion to other peoples' elegance, but not my own. I don't think I've ever felt elegant. I've felt appropriate, but never elegant, and I wonder what that must be like. I like it when other people are elegant - I prefer it - but I can't do it myself. I honestly think it's some form of autistic disorder.
‐‐ Douglas Coupland

I connect to humor really deeply, so I feel really comfortable just being in funny projects.
‐‐ Guillermo Diaz

I connect to SpongeBob in a way; like, that's the homie. He can chill on the corner with me.
‐‐ Theophilus London

I connect with all of the characters in my films. That's what makes you want to make a film, that you can enter the mindset, the situation, the conflict, the contradictions.
‐‐ Pawel Pawlikowski

I connect with an aura, with energy. And if the person with whom I connect happens to be a female, that's just the way it is.
‐‐ Kristanna Loken

I connect with kids easily. They bring out the maternal side in me.
‐‐ Malaika Arora Khan

I connect with people on a daily basis.
‐‐ Zac Efron

I connected very much with all the work of Joan Crawford because she started as a flapper. She used to dance and sing and she was very cute. She had something that was so different from what she is at the end of her life and she started in the silent movies and then went into the talkies.
‐‐ Berenice Bejo

I conquered my stage fright a long time ago. In my line of work, it's kind of a pre-requisite that you not feel bad about looking stupid in front of a lot of people.
‐‐ Buzz Osborne

I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
‐‐ Eddie Marsan

I consciously decided to make both 'Sammy's Hill' and 'Sammy's House' more of a warm satire and not go the route of writing a dark and bitter book about D.C.
‐‐ Kristin Gore

I consciously memorized the speed at which every pitcher in the league threw his fastball, curve, and slider. Then, I'd pick up the speed of the ball in the first 30 feet of its flight and knew how it would move once it has crossed the plate.
‐‐ Stan Musial

I consciously try not to play favorites with my characters or my books.
‐‐ Tina St. John

I consciously try to end my novels at a point where I won't have to wonder about my characters ever again.
‐‐ Anne Tyler

I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it up and start new material.
‐‐ Kate Clinton

I consider a day without running a crappy day.
‐‐ Julie Bowen

I consider a day without running a crappy day. When I don't get to run, I am a grump, but some days my schedule just doesn't allow me to.
‐‐ Julie Bowen

I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.
‐‐ Curtis Carlson

I consider a good dinner party at our house to be where people drink and eat more than they're meant to. My husband is a really fantastic cook. His mother is Italian and if you walk into our house, we assume you're starving.
‐‐ Elizabeth Gilbert

I consider a house without books or a piano to be unfurnished.
‐‐ Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.
‐‐ Millard Drexler

I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance.
‐‐ John Barton

I consider abortion to be a deeply personal and intimate issue for women and I don't believe male legislators should even vote on the issue.
‐‐ Alan K. Simpson

I consider acting a day job - it's not my dream; it's not my be-all, end-all.
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly

I consider adversity being good sometimes, you know.
‐‐ Brett Favre

I consider all my films experiments.
‐‐ Michael Haneke