All Quotes

As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that.
‐‐ Kate Bernheimer

As a reader, I happen to like turning pages and wanting to know what happens next.
‐‐ Tracy Chevalier

As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.
‐‐ John Scalzi

As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.
‐‐ C. J. Box

As a reader, I much prefer to read a book where people embody all kinds of ideas and everybody is making mistakes.
‐‐ Rebecca Stead

As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said views do nothing to advance the narrative.
‐‐ Jen Lancaster

As a reader, I tend not to get too much from tales of unrelenting grimness.
‐‐ Greg van Eekhout

As a reader, I've always been interested in dystopian novels like 'Nineteen Eighty-four'.
‐‐ Barbara Demick

As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don't want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome.
‐‐ Patrick deWitt

As a reader, when the writer gets sentimental, you drift, because there's something fishy going on there. You recognize a moment that's largely about the writer and the writer's own need to believe in something that might not in fact exist. As a reader, you think, 'Where did the story go? Where did the person I'm reading about go?'
‐‐ Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?
‐‐ Hugh Laurie

As a really young child, I was listening to the echoes of the age before, music hall and stuff like that, as well as classical bits on the radio.
‐‐ Roy Harper

As a recording engineer - someone who is deeply embroiled in the process of making records every day - you see trends and fads run through the social organization of the population of musicians in the same way that they would run through a high school.
‐‐ Steve Albini

As a regent, I hope to bring that important perspective of a typical family visitor in combination with my background as a Member of Congress and a proponent of the Smithsonian's efforts to reach all Americans.
‐‐ Xavier Becerra

As a registered Democrat, I am praying for a credible presidential candidate to emerge from the younger tier of politicians in their late 40s. A governor with executive experience would be ideal.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

As a relatively young woman - I'm 33 - I hope to one day have a family and already have commitments. If and when I'm elected as an MP, I would face a choice: take my family with me to London each week or be apart for four, maybe five, nights a week.
‐‐ Lucy Powell

As a religion, bilingualism is the god that failed. It has led to no fairness, produced no unity, and cost Canadian taxpayers untold millions.
‐‐ Stephen Harper

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
‐‐ Albert Camus

As a reporter, going around, you hear stories you can't prove, which means you can't put them in the newspaper. But they're good stories, and I would jot them down thinking maybe one day I could write that as a short story.
‐‐ Pete Hamill

As a reporter having covered him for eight years in the White House, I am sure the press could have done a better job if we had known the real Ronald Reagan.
‐‐ Helen Thomas

As a reporter, I approach every situation knowing that everyone has his or her own agenda. It's not a bad thing; it's just a fact.
‐‐ Maria Bartiromo

As a reporter, I embedded for modest stints with American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. When I'm asked about those experiences, I always say - and mean - that we civilians don't deserve the soldiers we have.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In truth, in reality, there's often a great deal of murkiness and muddiness, confusion and contradiction.
‐‐ Amy Waldman

As a Republican, I am all for competition.
‐‐ Michael Burgess

As a Republican, I am proud of my party's rich legacy of conservation.
‐‐ Robert Dold

As a Republican, I never expected to be working with Hillary Clinton.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

As a Republican, I voted with President Clinton consistently in our efforts to bail out our European friends in Kosovo to stop genocide. I am proud of those votes. I am proud of President Clinton for that.
‐‐ Gordon Smith

As a Republican Party, we're going to have to have a conversation about it. But I think, ultimately, a majority of Republicans, like a majority of Americans, don't want to let violent felons out of prison.
‐‐ Tom Cotton

As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

As a researcher, every once in a while you encounter something a little disconcerting. And this is something that changes your understanding of the world around you, and teaches you that you're very wrong about something that you really believed firmly in.
‐‐ Sendhil Mullainathan

As a restaurateur, my job is to basically control the chaos and the drama. There's always going to be chaos in the restaurant business.
‐‐ Rocco DiSpirito

As a restaurateur, my palate is one of my most important tools.
‐‐ Joe Bastianich

As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.
‐‐ Eberhard Weber

As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
‐‐ Ian Fleming

As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks.
‐‐ David Horowitz

As a result of half a century of Soviet rule people have been weaned from a belief in human kindness.
‐‐ Svetlana Alliluyeva

As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources.
‐‐ Jonathan Evison

As a result of my life on the road and the increasing number of rainy afternoons in cinemas, I began to get the idea that I might write a film.
‐‐ Jeremy Lloyd

As a result of my philosophy, I wasn't even upset about Hitler. I was willing to go to war to knock him off, but I didn't hate him. I hated what he was doing.
‐‐ Albert Ellis

As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable.
‐‐ Fredrik Bajer

As a result of playing Freddy Krueger, I can remember having to look at some medical books, and at some of the disfigurement that fire can cause on people, because they were the source material for some of the prosthetic makeup that I wore. That aided and abetted this fear of death by fire. Which is sort of what happened to Fred Krueger.
‐‐ Robert Englund

As a result of that, America desires a moderate Islam; an Islam that America can control; an Islam that America can give direction to and give orders to its leaders.
‐‐ Louis Farrakhan

As a result of the asthma I was sent to school in the country, and only visited Sydney for brief, violently asthmatic sojourns on my way to a house we owned in the Blue Mountains.
‐‐ Patrick White

As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.
‐‐ Abdolkarim Soroush

As a result of the carbon-dioxide enrichment of the Earth's atmosphere, plants are now growing faster. Furthermore, global warming lengthens the growing season and increases net rainfall.
‐‐ Robert Zubrin

As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%.
‐‐ Steve Israel

As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail, there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.
‐‐ Shmuel Yosef Agnon

As a result of the strategic patience policy, we now have North Korea testing four times an atomic weapon; they've violated numerous United Nations sanctions, U.S. sanctions by launching ballistic missile tests.
‐‐ Cory Gardner

As a result of the World War and of a peace whose imperfections and risks are no longer denied by anyone, are we not even further away from the great aspirations and hopes for peace and fraternity than we were one or two decades ago?
‐‐ Hjalmar Branting

As a result of the World War, this old Germany collapsed. It collapsed in its constitution, in its social order, in its economic structure. Its thinking and feeling changed.
‐‐ Gustav Stresemann