All Quotes

I don't write songs that don't affect me on some level, because I figure if I am not moved by it, if its not something that I have a longing to celebrate or to be reminded of, if it doesn't affect me, then how can I possibly think it is going to affect somebody else. My touchstone is write something that matters.
‐‐ Amy Grant

I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.
‐‐ Kid Rock

I don't write that much horror. People tell me my books are scary, but they're not really; I don't go there.
‐‐ Melissa de la Cruz

I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy.
‐‐ Charlaine Harris

I don't write things that are wildly abstractly atonal.
‐‐ Andre Previn

I don't write to a genre.
‐‐ John Searles

I don't write to create performance material; I write to make books.
‐‐ Amy Gerstler

I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience.
‐‐ Pramoedya Ananta Toer

I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
‐‐ Ursula K. Le Guin

I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
‐‐ Barry Hannah

I don't write well when I'm sitting there sweating about every single phrase.
‐‐ Doris Lessing

I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.
‐‐ Padgett Powell

I don't write women who are weak or simpering.
‐‐ P. C. Cast

I don't yearn to be a child again.
‐‐ Loretta Young

I don't - you know, I'm very disillusioned with our political system. If we don't wake up in America and realize that we have to vote out of our courage and integrity for candidates who reflect our own beatitudes, and not the beatitudes of the war machine and the corporations, we are - we're doomed.
‐‐ Cindy Sheehan

I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.
‐‐ Aretha Franklin

I donate money to the existing foundation that funds the US Ski Team kids.
‐‐ Picabo Street

I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder in jail; only last week, I murdered a rock, injured a stone, hospitalised a brick; I'm so mean I make medicine sick.
‐‐ Muhammad Ali

I dont hate L.A. There's a very beautiful side to it; it's scenic, and I can go horse riding.
‐‐ Leona Lewis

I doodle all the time, even if I'm on the train.
‐‐ Dascha Polanco

I double majored in English education and theater with a musical theater minor. Teaching is the only thing that makes me as happy as performing.
‐‐ Rob McClure

I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
‐‐ Narendra Modi

I doubt anyone in Hollywood has had more 'dates' than me.
‐‐ George Hamilton

I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.
‐‐ Larry J. Sabato

I doubt I'd ever do television to the extent that, say, Gordon Ramsay has.
‐‐ David Chang

I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.
‐‐ Adele

I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together.
‐‐ Fred Saberhagen

I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.
‐‐ J. A. Konrath

I doubt I'll ever pay someone to do a remix again, because there's some amazing stuff just coming out of bedrooms.
‐‐ Trent Reznor

I doubt I'll ever retire, but if I do, I see myself as the little old Parisian lady pushing her trolley from the supermarket to her apartment. Everyone needs a pipe dream.
‐‐ Catherine Martin

I doubt I will ever be in another Michael Bay movie.
‐‐ Tom Lenk

I doubt if a single individual could be found from the whole of mankind free from some form of insanity. The only difference is one of degree. A man who sees a gourd and takes it for his wife is called insane because this happens to very few people.
‐‐ Desiderius Erasmus

I doubt if the public thought of me as Christ when they next saw me as Temple Houston on television.
‐‐ Jeffrey Hunter

I doubt if there will ever be another Republican president in my lifetime.
‐‐ David A. Siegel

I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
‐‐ Carl Sandburg

I doubt that I will get involved with politics. That's something I don't have in me.
‐‐ Pedro Martinez

I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
‐‐ E. O. Wilson

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
‐‐ Ursula K. Le Guin

I doubt that the Lord cares much which honorable vocation you choose. But He does care if you love one another and serve one another.
‐‐ Russell M. Nelson

I doubt the people of North Carolina will be content to allow the governor to decide or even unduly influence selecting their senator.
‐‐ Terry Sanford

I doubt the terrorists saw 9/11 as a teaching opportunity. And we're not really a culture geared to anything as humble as 'learning.' But I was disappointed in how quickly everyone wanted to get back to normal. It was as if we watched terrorism on TV for a while, then got bored and turned back to 'American Idol.'
‐‐ Jess Walter

I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
‐‐ Barton Gellman

I doubt there's anything you could say to Donald Rumsfeld that would puncture the armor of his narcissism.
‐‐ Phil Klay

I doubt very much that the chief executives of any of the Fortune 500 corporations can name five edible plants, five native grasses, or five migratory birds within walking distance of their homes, or name the soil series upon which their house sits. And I would contend that if you don't know where you are, you are in fact nowhere at all.
‐‐ Paul Hawken

I doubt whether any girl would be satisfied with her lover's mind if she knew the whole of it.
‐‐ Anthony Trollope

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
‐‐ George Orwell

I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure with ice-cream.
‐‐ Heywood Broun

I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.
‐‐ Gloria Swanson

I download, like, forty songs a day, I'm a big music collector and a big record collector.
‐‐ Jesse Williams