All Quotes

I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace.
‐‐ Edward Lear

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.
‐‐ Gilbert White

I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.
‐‐ Thom Gunn

I was much involved in the development of the spark chamber as a practical research tool.
‐‐ James Cronin

I was much more comfortable and a much better congressman running in a district that was 37 percent black, where I had to have a white constituency to get elected, than I would have been if I was in a 75 percent black district.
‐‐ Andrew Young

I was much more interested by clothes when I was younger. I'm about being discreet. What they call the French touch, whatever that means. Low profile and somehow elegant without being flashy.
‐‐ Vincent Cassel

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.
‐‐ Marc Newson

I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a pianist and my teachers felt I had talent and wanted me to become a good concert pianist and earn my living that way.
‐‐ Alan Hovhaness

I was mugged when I was 12. I had a portable radio, and I ran into this building and these two guys came in and hit me, busted me up and took the radio. After that I was very paranoid and I started taking kung fu and karate. But I didn't want to fight.
‐‐ Freddie Prinze

I was muscular - I was never overweight. But tell a girl that she has to lose 15 pounds when she's not fat, and that has destroyed a lot of who I am over the years, even still. In my mind I'm thinking, 'I'm always too heavy. I should be a skinny thing.'
‐‐ Kim Alexis

I was my mother's favorite, and she'd help me with everything.
‐‐ H. R. Giger

I was my thinnest when doing 35 fashion shows a week in different countries because I didn't have time to eat. I've never bought the idea that models in fashion magazines cause readers to have anorexia and bulimia. And you can't be a model if you've got those conditions anyway, because you'll get acne and hair all over your body.
‐‐ Jerry Hall

I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother; and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.
‐‐ Flavius Josephus

I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference.
‐‐ David Gest

I was naive in that I thought I could just sing and perform and do what I had always wanted to do all my life. But I wasn't ready for all the added dramas that came along. There were times I fell out of love with music and thought about walking away. I thought I was happier when I was that girl at home in my bedroom singing into my hairbrush.
‐‐ Rebecca Ferguson

I was named after my Jewish grandfather who left Poland early in the 20th century. What I knew from an early age was that he had lived most of his life in England, his Jewish wife had died, and he married a non-Jewish woman who was my grandmother.
‐‐ Morris Gleitzman

I was named after my mother. And I guess when I started making records, Madonna Ciccone seemed too long and complicated, and I just got stuck with Madonna.
‐‐ Madonna Ciccone

I was named after my mother's maiden name.
‐‐ Sprague Grayden

I was named after my two grandmothers - Julia Elizabeth.
‐‐ Julie Andrews

I was named after my two uncles. Roger Lee and Richard Allen. They simply changed the spelling to Leigh-Allyn to make it more feminine.
‐‐ Leigh-Allyn Baker

I was named after the great emperor Cyrus as my father, Farokh Broacha, was a great admirer of the Persian emperor. Continuing the tradition, I have named my son after Mikhail Gorbachev, someone whom I admire. He gave his people freedom.
‐‐ Cyrus Broacha

I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.
‐‐ Yul Vazquez

I was named Beekeeper of the Year by the Florida State Beekeeping Association.
‐‐ Peter Fonda

I was named Class Clown in the high school yearbook, so I was always turning to comedy and laughter to heal and to get me through things.
‐‐ Guillermo Diaz

I was named for my grandmother. It's an evil-eye name, to protect you from bad things.
‐‐ Stana Katic

I was named Margaret Yvonne. 'Margaret' because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own.
‐‐ Yvonne De Carlo

I was named Stanley because the week before I was born, my mother and father saw a movie - 'Stanley and Livingstone.'
‐‐ Stanley Hauerwas

I was naturalized right before Pearl Harbor. Nine days later, I would have been classified as an enemy alien. I might have been sent to a camp.
‐‐ Olivia De Havilland

I was naturally skinny and had braces, so I wasn't a cute model.
‐‐ Amanda Seyfried

I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that.
‐‐ Kitty Carlisle

I was nearing the end of childhood when I started to pay real attention to jazz singers. Women excelled as jazz singers; they surpassed most of the men. Black women excelled as jazz singers; they surpassed most of the whites.
‐‐ Margo Jefferson

I was nearly 40 when I published my first book. I was a slow starter - or rather, I was slow to gather my work together, though I had published translations, mainly of the Italian poet Montale, by then.
‐‐ Jonathan Galassi

I was nearly 40 when I started. I had no fear that I wasn't going to write. I knew it was just delayed. Then, my goodness, I never stopped.
‐‐ Jane Gardam

I was nearly a teen-ager before I stopped assuming that everyone I met was Jewish.
‐‐ Kenneth Lonergan

I was nearly fired from my second job, which was writing press releases for Boston's public television station.
‐‐ Elinor Lipman

I was neither black enough for the black kids or Dominican enough for the Dominican kids. I didn't have a safe category.
‐‐ Junot Diaz

I was neither good in sports nor at studies, but I always wanted to stand out and be noticed.
‐‐ Anupam Kher

I was nerdy and really into computers. I was a good student until my senior year, when I started traveling and had a lot of absences.
‐‐ Tony Hawk

I was nerdy girl who went to Catholic school and wanted to be an engineer. I was all set to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology. And then I took a hard left turn and studied Liberal Arts at Northern Illinois University, majored in Communications. Then worked in radio as a disk jockey and as the weather girl.
‐‐ Cindy Morgan

I was nervous about doing 'Scottsboro Boys' because I'm not a trained dancer, and there is a lot of very athletic dancing involved.
‐‐ Colman Domingo

I was nervous and hesitant about putting myself out there for the pie scene. But I went for it and the results were wonderful.
‐‐ Jason Biggs

I was nervous batting eighth, and I was nervous batting seventh.
‐‐ Dontrelle Willis

I was nervous from the very beginning, and it got worse as the years went on. I was conscientious and wanted to do more, always, than I was able. I don't think, when I was playing, that I was ever happy - beginning at 4 o'clock any afternoon.
‐‐ Katharine Cornell

I was nervous. I was thinking, 'Gee, he's Ralph Fiennes. What an amazing actor, and I can have this scene with him.' But I enjoyed it, you know. That's what I got into acting to do - to push myself and see if I can do these things.
‐‐ Matthew Lewis

I was nervous to even talk to other kids in my class. I would hide in my room when my parents had people over.
‐‐ Brie Larson

I was neurotic and weird from an early age.
‐‐ Joanne Froggatt

I was never a big comic book fan. I was always more into the baseball cards.
‐‐ Tracy Morgan

I was never a big-company type of person, and my ideal job was to be self-employed. The ironic thing is you work a lot harder for yourself than you do for anybody else.
‐‐ Xochi Birch

I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is 'The Shining.' I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.
‐‐ Caity Lotz