All Quotes

As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip.
‐‐ Phil Foglio

As it happens, although I was at MIT on the faculty full-time for 18 years and then at Harvard for another 16, so I've always been in full-time academia, I always found it was both beneficial for my research and beneficial for the other work to be involved in the practicing community.
‐‐ Robert C. Merton

As it happens, Chicago is the nation's leader in municipal privatization efforts. That's right: The city that conservatives portray as the citadel of the power-grabbing, government-growing left has been selling itself off in pieces for years. It signed a 99-year lease for the Chicago Skyway, a toll road in the city's South Side, back in 2005.
‐‐ Thomas Frank

As it happens, I have personally been something of an enthusiast for the London Olympic games, mainly on the grounds a) that a bit of wasteland will be made nice and b) that it tends to make everybody happy that their country should be the centre of world attention for a couple of weeks in their life.
‐‐ Evan Davis

As it has been told to me, my Dad had some kind of deal with Dick Clark. But when we got here, that fell through. So we were out here with no job, no furniture, no food.
‐‐ Danny Bonaduce

As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.
‐‐ Daniel Akaka

As it is, Al Jazeera is mostly funded by grants from the emir of Qatar-Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, whose family has ruled the country since the mid-1800s.
‐‐ Michael Paterniti

As it is, I have a limited range as an actor - light comedy. I have never been a fan of romantic comedies, and yet that is what I have ended up mostly doing.
‐‐ Hugh Grant

As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
‐‐ Kangana Ranaut

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As it is, the grotesque distortions of the global market mean that for every dollar the West dispatches to Africa in the form of aid, two dollars are clawed back through subsidies and tariff barriers: a monumental rip-off by the rich as they instruct the poor to accept 'free' trade or else.
‐‐ Jonathan Dimbleby

As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
‐‐ Dan T. Cathy

As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.
‐‐ Rachel Cusk

As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.
‐‐ Eric Liu

As it turns out, American-made technology had helped Mubarak and his security state collect, compile, and parse vast amounts of data about everyday citizens.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

As it turns out, my grandmother, my mother, my wife, and my daughter are all women, and I like those people. I'm concerned about the issues that they face in their lives. So I'm a feminist, but that's not all I am.
‐‐ Tommy Lee Jones

As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.
‐‐ Susan Faludi

As it turns out, there is a thing called the Internet, and stuff does go out there whether the suits like it or not.
‐‐ Al Yankovic

As it turns out, three of my four kids are professional singers. And they're really interesting, good singers.
‐‐ Loudon Wainwright III

As it turns out, what looks like science sometimes is not.
‐‐ Jose Padilha

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.
‐‐ Eric Allin Cornell

As its citizens humbly recommit to an acceptance of guidance from the God of our fathers, our nation will once again see the miraculous resurrection of the proud, responsible, visionary black father. And with him, his family and community will be lifted.
‐‐ Burgess Owens

As J.R. I could get away with anything - bribery, blackmail and adultery. But I got caught by cancer. I do want everyone to know that it is a very common and treatable form of cancer. I will be receiving treatment while working on the new 'Dallas' series.
‐‐ Larry Hagman

As Jeopardy devotees know, if you're trying to win on the show, the buzzer is all. On any given night, nearly all the contestants know nearly all the answers, so it's just a matter of who masters buzzer rhythm the best.
‐‐ Ken Jennings

As Jews, their families left Russia to escape the poverty and the antisemitism.
‐‐ Martin Lewis Perl

As Jews, we are commanded to give tzedakah - an act of justice, not charity - because it is the righteous thing to do.
‐‐ Lynn Schusterman

As journalists, because you don't carry a gun, you sort of become this observer.
‐‐ Tim Hetherington

As journalists, we cannot swallow the official line without question. We should challenge almost everything that dictators, presidents and officials say.
‐‐ Jorge Ramos

As journalists, we keep pushing and pushing.
‐‐ Mary Hart

As kids do, they're smart, and even if parents try to keep things away from them, conflict and issues and whatnot, kids pick up on what's happening.
‐‐ Anna Gunn

As kids, our experiences shape our opinions of ourselves and the world around us, and that's who we become as adults.
‐‐ Chris Hemsworth

As kids, there's somehow the fear that these bullies can end your life if they want to. Everything is blown up, and occasionally that kind of awful thing does happen.
‐‐ Jordan Peele

As kids we didn't complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.
‐‐ Jay-Z

As kids, we had no clue about the racial stuff that seemed to preoccupy adults. We just enjoyed our life as kids.
‐‐ Natalie Cole

As kids, we have all handled shot guns. From there on, there is no transition. It stays in the toy box. The idea is to get the transition and bridge the gap between the toy box and the shooting range.
‐‐ Gagan Narang

As kids we're not taught how to deal with success; we're taught how to deal with failure. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. If at first you succeed, then what?
‐‐ Charlie Sheen

As kids, we say stupid things, and because there's not a record of it, nobody is going to give you a hard time at 30 years old about something you said or did when you were 8 years old. Online, you have all these social networks that are moving to a state of persistent identity, and in turn, we're sacrificing the ability to be youthful.
‐‐ Christopher Poole

As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
‐‐ J. Michael Straczynski

As kids, we traded 'I like Ike' and 'All the way with Adlai' buttons in elementary school.
‐‐ Andrea Mitchell

As kids, we were at concerts like Michael Jackson every weekend. My first concert was Earth, Wind and Fire.
‐‐ Kim Kardashian

As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
‐‐ Charles Morgan

As languages go, English is pretty user friendly. If you look at a tiny language spoken somewhere that most of us have never heard of, chances are it's going to be so complicated that you have a hard time imagining how people can walk around speaking it without having a stroke.
‐‐ John McWhorter

As late as 2007, Facebook was still trying to figure out what it wanted to be when it grew up. An advertising space seemed to be the obvious answer, but how that would tap into the massive value of the personal data uploaded to the company every day remained a puzzle.
‐‐ Kurt Eichenwald

As late as 2009, 90 per cent of Afghans reckoned Karzai's performance was excellent, good or fair.
‐‐ Terry Glavin

As late as the 1980s, female officers were issued with uniform and kit which included a handbag, complete with a smaller truncheon to fit inside, and it wasn't until 1995 that our first female chief constable was appointed.
‐‐ Theresa May

As late as the early '50s, jazz was still, for the most part, a genuinely popular music, a utilitarian, song-based idiom to which ordinary people could dance if they felt like it.
‐‐ Terry Teachout

As Latinas, we tend to be overly partial considering stereotypes. I'm interested in being naughty and edgy.
‐‐ Judy Reyes

As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.
‐‐ Eddie Bernice Johnson

As leader of the Fine Gael Party, I will also use our position in the European People's Party to clearly state our views with our European political partners.
‐‐ Enda Kenny

As leaders, our job is to engage people so that they will want to participate in this grand experience in self governance.
‐‐ David Ige