All Quotes

As a medium, electronic screens possess infinite capacities and instant interconnections, turning words into a new kind of active agent in the world.
‐‐ Tom Chatfield

As a melody instrument player, it's all about getting from one note to the next, and those intervals and how you navigate your way through these vertical structures of chords. You realize that everything's moving forward, and it's all linear.
‐‐ David Sanborn

As a member of a competitive team, you want to make sure you have yourself ready to play. You don't control anything but what you do.
‐‐ Joe Torre

As a member of both the energy and environment committees, I am constantly astounded by how many of my colleagues prefer to focus on what the government can do for the nuclear or coal industries rather than why the government should support clean and sustainable energy.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

As a member of Congress, and a parent, I understand the importance of ensuring that families are able to provide a meaningful and proper burial for their loved ones.
‐‐ Jon Porter

As a Member of Congress from one of the fastest growing States in the country, we hire close to 2,500 new teachers a year, close to 5,000 support staff and faculty.
‐‐ Jon Porter

As a member of Congress, I believe Congress must provide oversight of actions by the Executive Branch as our system of checks and balances requires.
‐‐ Charles B. Rangel

As a member of Congress, I believe it is the responsibility of those elected to represent the people at every level of government to ensure that our government works to ensure that every person who wants gainful employment has it.
‐‐ Leonard Boswell

As a member of Congress, I'm often reminded that in baseball, as in diplomacy, you have to know when to hit, when to run, and when to show grace.
‐‐ Linda Sanchez

As a member of Congress, I strongly believe I have a responsibility to be truthful, even if that means delivering difficult news.
‐‐ Scott DesJarlais

As a Member of Congress, I've continued my family's tradition of focusing on education.
‐‐ Mark Kennedy

As a member of Guess Who, I think 'No Time' was the best thing we ever did. It was a pivotal song in our career.
‐‐ Burton Cummings

As a member of the Aging Committee, I'm no stranger to fighting for America's seniors.
‐‐ Claire McCaskill

As a member of the audience I don't like it that I can't see what's going on in the eyes and in the face and in the most subtle responses of a performer when I'm more than a few rows back. I find it very frustrating.
‐‐ Daniel Day-Lewis

As a Member of the CBC, I will fight tooth and nail to increase funding for programs, such as Ryan White, that were flat funded in the President's budget.
‐‐ Corrine Brown

As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I believe in traditional marriage between a man and a woman, but I respect the decision of the Court, and I think it's time to move on.
‐‐ Evan McMullin

As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of the impact these small businesses have on our local economies.
‐‐ Melissa Bean

As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, I will be participating in several hearings on the startling revelations contained in the report.
‐‐ Charles Bass

As a member of the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, I am a firm believer in the American space program.
‐‐ Randy Forbes

As a member of the Mormon church, Romney is instructed to tithe 10 percent of his income. That's in keeping with most charitable giving: Religious institutions get about one-third of all contributions, according to 'The American' magazine.
‐‐ John Podhoretz

As a member of this court I am not justified in writing my private notions of policy into the Constitution, no matter how deeply I may cherish them or how mischievous I may deem their disregard.
‐‐ Felix Frankfurter

As a memoirist, I strive for veracity.
‐‐ Mary Karr

As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else.
‐‐ Maeve Binchy

As a mentor and an advocate, I've seen no end to the ways that childless people can contribute to the lives and well-being of kids - and adults, for that matter.
‐‐ Meghan Daum

As a Michigan senator, I feel a special responsibility to protect the Great Lakes. They are not only a source of clean drinking water for more than 30 million people but are also an integral part of Michigan's heritage and its economy.
‐‐ Debbie Stabenow

As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science.
‐‐ Louise Slaughter

As a middle-aged woman who has had some luck as a writer, I'd like this profession of author to remain a possibility for young writers in the future - and not become an arena solely for the hobbyist or the well-heeled.
‐‐ Janet Fitch

As a Midlander and a big walker, I'd always loved ridge and furrow fields, the plough-marked land as it was when it was enclosed. It is the landscape giving you a story of lives that ended with the arrival of sheep.
‐‐ Jim Crace

As a militant troublemaker, I once wrote that it was the duty of every woman worthy of the description to upset men at least three times a day, on principle.
‐‐ Julie Burchill

As a minister, you shouldn't imagine you know better than the technical experts in your ministry. In the end you're there to apply the political stamp of approval.
‐‐ Jeroen Dijsselbloem

As a minority, no sooner do you learn to polish and cherish one chip on your shoulder than it's taken off you and swapped for another. The jewellery of your struggles is forever on loan, like the Koh-i-Noor diamond in the crown jewels.
‐‐ Riz Ahmed

As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.
‐‐ Karen Elson

As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't full of personality, I was full of solitude and solemnity. I wasn't a cover-girl type.
‐‐ Carmen Dell'Orefice

As a model, I really stand for not being a model, if that makes sense. When I started, the whole idea of the model was very different; it was a bit stuck-up. Not stuck-up, but no one was trying to have fun, or not even have fun, but be willing to smile.
‐‐ Cara Delevingne

As a model, I travel non-stop.
‐‐ Jasmine Guinness

As a model, part of my job is to be critiqued physically.
‐‐ Erin O'Connor

As a model you do play a certain role and you know as an actor you play another role.
‐‐ Gemma Ward

As a model you need to be able to do the craziest things.
‐‐ Heidi Klum

As a model, you're such a gypsy, so that 'home' element is kind of taken from you.
‐‐ Erin Heatherton

As a modern-day role model, I'd have to go for Tiger Woods. I'm also a massive Sachin Tendulkar fan.
‐‐ Mark Lawrenson

As a modern employer you have to treat people well.
‐‐ James Dyson

As a modern woman, there are things I take for granted, and that shows up in the way I sit, the way I walk, the way I think, and what I know to be possible.
‐‐ Lorraine Toussaint

As a mom, I always feel I have to protect them. I talk about them because they are the most important things in my life but they are private people. I won't use them for my own press.
‐‐ Jami Gertz

As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
‐‐ Idina Menzel

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.
‐‐ Michelle Obama

As a mom I know that raising children is the hardest job there is.
‐‐ Hilary Rosen

As a mom, I understand how important it is to ensure kids start their day right and always make sure my kids have a nutritious breakfast. One in five U.S. children live in homes where food is not always available, which is why I partnered with Kellogg's on their 'Share Your Breakfast' campaign, which provide breakfasts to kids in need.
‐‐ Monica Potter

As a mom, it's so important to feel confident in what you're doing.
‐‐ Hilary Duff

As a mom of three young kids, it's difficult to reserve a big chunk of time for shopping, so I try to get my gifts little by little throughout the year. I think this is especially helpful for those of us who are budget conscious.
‐‐ Camila Alves