All Quotes

As a species, we would not have survived without humor.
‐‐ Jane Hamilton

As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.
‐‐ Landon Donovan

As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on the farm, the fields and forests were places of adventure and self-discovery. Animals were companions and friends, and the world moved at a slower, more rational pace than the bustling cities where I'd resided my adult life.
‐‐ David Mixner

As a sportsman, my aim was to help sportspersons grow. The idea is to see what is good for sport rather than what's good for individuals.
‐‐ Kapil Dev

As a sportsman, you always play to win. Having said that, it's not possible to win every day. There will be days when you will do well and there will be days you won't.
‐‐ Suresh Raina

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.
‐‐ Virat Kohli

As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.
‐‐ Hal Sparks

As a stand-up comic, you have to do the road.
‐‐ Loni Love

As a standup comedian, I've worked almost every New Year's Eve of my adult life. It's the best-paying night of the year.
‐‐ Elayne Boosler

As a standup comedian, you have to develop a sense of fearlessness. It's really important for your livelihood and your well-being. And if you don't do that, you're going to fail; you're never going to be able to stand up on the cliff and jump off.
‐‐ John DiMaggio

As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.
‐‐ Lea DeLaria

As a standup performer, I'm onstage, and it's important how the audience is looking at me. I'm looking at whether they're leaning forward or not, those types of things. You read an energy. And it's the same thing in a scene with other actors.
‐‐ Jerrod Carmichael

As a state legislator, I had worked with Republicans and Democrats to pass a number of bills, including some related to higher education and juvenile justice; I'd created what would become San Antonio's largest book drive and literacy campaign.
‐‐ Joaquin Castro

As a state senator and then a congressman, I've had the privilege of trying to do good things for people to whom I owe so much and can never fully repay.
‐‐ Gary Ackerman

As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.
‐‐ Jennifer Granholm

As a storyboard artist, you have to be able to draw anything.
‐‐ John Allison

As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.
‐‐ Fede Alvarez

As a street performer, I have learned that everybody wants to connect. And that usually, if you're a bit extraordinary, if you're not exactly of human appearance, then people will feel inclined to participate and to feel out loud. It's as though you made something resonate within them.
‐‐ Natasha Tsakos

As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's existing gun laws must be done before any more laws are enacted and put on the books.
‐‐ Jeff Miller

As a struggling actor, you're not looking for parts that define you; you're just looking for work.
‐‐ Matt Damon

As a student, I had stayed with Winston Churchill; later, I had lunched with Harold Macmillan - in fact, had met most of the post-war prime ministers of Great Britain from Douglas-Home to Tony Blair.
‐‐ Nigel Hamilton

As a student I learned from wonderful teachers and ever since then I've thought everyone is a teacher.
‐‐ Bill Moyers

As a student, I wrote English reports on science fiction.
‐‐ Buzz Aldrin

As a student in Beijing in 1996, I sometimes marveled at the sheer obscurity of the movies that somehow made it onto pirated discs in China.
‐‐ Evan Osnos

As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the day.
‐‐ David Naughton

As a student studying acting, I was always broke, so going to see any live theater was almost impossible.
‐‐ Jesse L. Martin

As a stunt guy, you become a mini-director. You're talking to actors about performance.
‐‐ David Leitch

As a stylist, it is important for me to always steer my clients in the right direction and to push them when I feel it is necessary.
‐‐ Brad Goreski

As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.
‐‐ P. C. Cast

As a supporter of the Prostate Cancer Foundation and their Home Run Challenge program, I am extremely grateful for the valuable partnerships and relationships built with Major League Baseball and our affiliates.
‐‐ Joe Torre

As a surfer, I am interested in the ocean. And I am concerned and interested in all of these natural and cultural rumblings underfoot as well.
‐‐ Brandon Boyd

As a surfer, I think of places like a wave: you see one thing on the surface. But you always know there's something different going on underneath.
‐‐ Don Winslow

As a surgeon you have to have a controlled arrogance. If it's uncontrolled, you kill people, but you have to be pretty arrogant to saw through a person's chest, take out their heart and believe you can fix it. Then, when you succeed and the patient survives, you pray, because it's only by the grace of God that you get there.
‐‐ Mehmet Oz

As a survivor of Hurricane Katrina, I understood all too well the despair my colleagues - Republican and Democrat alike - were feeling as Hurricane Sandy ravaged their communities.
‐‐ Cedric Richmond

As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.
‐‐ Adam Sedgwick

As a tactic, violence is absurd. No one can compete with the Government in violence, and the resort to violence, which will surely fail, will simply frighten and alienate some who can be reached, and will further encourage the ideologists and administrators of forceful repression.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

As a taxpayer, I want to assure you that Republicans are doing everything we can to reduce wasteful spending.
‐‐ Jeff Miller

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.
‐‐ Max Beerbohm

As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.
‐‐ Laura Esquivel

As a teacher, I've never seen anything like 'Harry Potter.' That's why I smart when people talk about the 'next' 'Harry Potter.' There is no 'next' 'Harry Potter.'
‐‐ Rick Riordan

As a teacher, my strategy is to encourage questioning. I'm the least authoritarian professor you'll ever meet.
‐‐ Niall Ferguson

As a teacher myself I've been in situations where parents come at you, and sometimes parents come across like the teacher doesn't want the best for their kid and it can be really, really hurtful.
‐‐ Rosalind Wiseman

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.
‐‐ Marilyn Hacker

As a teacher you can see the difference in kids who have parents who were involved. That difference, by the time these kids get to the third grade, is drastic.
‐‐ Jenna Bush

As a technologist, I'm obsessed with searching for the next killer app.
‐‐ Maynard Webb

As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.
‐‐ James Gleick

As a teen-ager I was constantly trying to please people, which I guess is true of all adolescents.
‐‐ Rosemary Mahoney

As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

As a teen, I was both anorexic and bulimic.
‐‐ Alanis Morissette