All Quotes

As a child who loved to read, I had trouble finding honest stories. I felt that adults were always keeping secrets from me, even in the books I was reading.
‐‐ Judy Blume

As a child, William Beebe was my hero, and I used to read about him going down in the bathysphere, and I wanted to do that too. And I told my family, I said, 'I'd like to go down and be like William Beebe,' and they said, 'Well, maybe you can take up typing and get to be the secretary of William Beebe or somebody like him.'
‐‐ Eugenie Clark

As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.
‐‐ Yo-Yo Ma

As a children's author, reviewers are generally very nice to you. I only ever wrote one adult book and received such a kicking for it that I was in trauma for the next six months.
‐‐ Anthony Horowitz

As a children's author, you get to advocate for reading and writing in general, in a way an adult author might not be able to. It's a really interesting dance we do to get literature into the hands of young people and to help them to become literate and become readers; we want them to grow up reading and continue to do so when they're adults.
‐‐ Deborah Wiles

As a Christian, but also as a scientist responsible for overseeing the Human Genome Project, one of my concerns has been the limits on applications of our understanding of the genome. Should there be limits? I think there should. I think the public has expressed their concern about ways this information might be misused.
‐‐ Francis Collins

As a Christian, Christ died so that we will have eternal life in Him in Heaven. What it looks like doesn't matter, what it smells like doesn't matter, as long as Christ is there it will be Heaven to me.
‐‐ T. D. Jakes

As a Christian, I believe in redemption. And I believe in second chances.
‐‐ Rand Paul

As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on our religious differences; and to the religious arrogance that says, 'Our truth is the only truth.'
‐‐ Parker Palmer

As a Christian, I think it's really important to find a man of God to trust and be supportive of me.
‐‐ Leven Rambin

As a Christian, I try to meditate or pray at least once a day, however briefly.
‐‐ Jay Parini

As a Christian, Israel has a very special place in my heart. There's no question about that. I grew up with a Bible, and the back of the Bible has all these pictures of Israel in it. And so all these locations are incredibly significant to me personally in my faith.
‐‐ James Lankford

As a Christian Scientist, I don't go to doctors and get diagnoses.
‐‐ Henry Paulson

As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.
‐‐ Mark Hatfield

As a Christian, we can't stand on the sidelines with no team jersey or team colors to show our allegiance to Christ.
‐‐ Monica Johnson

As a citizen and someone who was a judge on the constitutional law court for 18 years, I feel whenever I can raise my voice with the hope of being heard I need to do it, but I wouldn't assign a special wisdom and responsibility to writers.
‐‐ Bernhard Schlink

As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't really overturn a science paradigm.
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

As a citizen, hopefully I'm humanist. As an artist, I'm free.
‐‐ Patti Smith

As a citizen of a community, if you never vote or engage, don't be surprised when the outcome doesn't serve your interests; you've never done anything to push things in the right direction.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

As a citizen of a democratic state, I have always believed that when a prime minister is elected in Israel, even those who voted against him at the polls are obligated to desire his success.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert

As a citizen of the great city of Chicago, I find it impossible to root against the White Sox. The White Sox organization has been much more consistent, in my lifetime at least, at putting a winning ballclub on the field.
‐‐ Billy Corgan

As a citizen of the post-historical variety, I am in continual mourning and prepared for worse.
‐‐ Kate Braverman

As a citizen of this country, I've got to be honest to the people of South Africa.
‐‐ Jacob Zuma

As a citizen, you need to know how to be a part of it, how to express yourself - and not just by voting.
‐‐ Sandra Day O'Connor

As a city, Chicago really affords me an environment that I am really happy creating in. It's an easy place to live in a lot of ways; it's a great community to be making music in.
‐‐ Jason Molina

As a city, it is always compelling. But every day in Mexico City, I give thanks that I am alive.
‐‐ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

As a city, we have to face the reality that New York's minority communities experience a disproportionate share of violent crime.
‐‐ Raymond Kelly

As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement.
‐‐ James T. Walsh

As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to work in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM crops to alcohol, nuclear proliferation to schools reform.
‐‐ Geoff Mulgan

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.
‐‐ Lester B. Pearson

As a civilian not playing sport, to get that sense of real belonging and feeling how you are progressing through the day is what I loved and miss.
‐‐ Matthew Hayden

As a civilised society, we have a duty to support those among us who are vulnerable and in need. When times are hard, that duty should be felt more than ever, not disappear or diminish.
‐‐ Justin Welby

As a close-up magician, I was using gambling cheating techniques.
‐‐ Steve Truglia

As a closeted gay man, Jim McGreevey lived a life of presentation, a gay man portraying a straight man.
‐‐ Jeanne Marie Laskas

As a club, we have an educational purpose: to give back to those people who love Arsenal so that they learn moral values from our game and how we behave.
‐‐ Arsene Wenger

As a co-chair of the State's 2010 Olympics Task Force, I am working to make sure our border crossings are ready to handle the risks and benefits the Games will bring.
‐‐ Rick Larsen

As a co-writer of the Mumford's songs, I'm always quite insecure about the music - I find it hard to accept any praise or feedback.
‐‐ Ben Lovett

As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.
‐‐ Lou Holtz

As a coach, they would love to sit there and say, 'It's going to be five steps, you're going to hitch up into a perfect pocket, you're going to look at number one - no; you're going to go to number two - no.' It doesn't work that way.
‐‐ Brett Favre

As a coach you can influence the diet of your players. You can point out what is wrong.
‐‐ Arsene Wenger

As a coach, you've got to do what's best for the team. If guys don't like it, they're going to leave. If they stay and don't like it, well, your team's going to suck anyway. Even if this happens, you still have to do it. You can't coach worrying about any individual.
‐‐ Doc Rivers

As a Coalition Government, we inherited a legacy of lack of trust and confidence in political system.
‐‐ Andrew Lansley

As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.
‐‐ Vanessa Diffenbaugh

As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.
‐‐ Sebastian Thrun

As a college student, you're depending on your scholarship money, money your parents send you. So I guess when people start talking about big figures, it doesn't hit me.
‐‐ D'Brickashaw Ferguson

As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process.
‐‐ Margaret Carlson

As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war.
‐‐ Tulsi Gabbard

As a comedian, I am obligated to tell you the truth, my truth. To share with you my beliefs, my perspective. And I think that we forget sometimes that that's the oath that comics take, that we will go up and share everything - the irreverent, the scary.
‐‐ Dane Cook

As a comedian, I don't know if they're laughing because it's funny or if they're laughing at me because I'm not funny. And I'm thinking, 'Who cares? They're laughing.' If you go on stage, and they're laughing at you full-on for 60 minutes? You know, whatever puts them in the seats.
‐‐ Larry the Cable Guy