All Quotes

At fancy and expensive restaurants (say, $50 and up for a dinner), you can follow a simple procedure to choose the best meal. Look at the menu and ask yourself: 'Which of these items do I least want to order?' Or: 'Which one sounds the least appetizing?' Then order that item.
‐‐ Tyler Cowen

At fashion shows, my brows often get bleached, and they've been dyed back much darker - like jet black, where you can't even see my skin. Sometimes with Just for Men! What a mistake. At times, the two brows aren't even the same color!
‐‐ Cara Delevingne

At FDA, our mission is to promote and protect the health of the public. As commissioner, I've worked hard to galvanize people around that idea. I want employees to be thinking about the unique and essential contribution they are making to our mission.
‐‐ Margaret Hamburg

At festivals, you can go a lot bigger than a club and have massive euphoric moments because there are so many people there all feeling the same thing.
‐‐ Jamie xx

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
‐‐ Honore de Balzac

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

At fifteen one is first beginning to realize that everything isn't money and power in this world, and is casting about for joys that do not turn to dross in one's hands.
‐‐ Robert Benchley

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
‐‐ George Orwell

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.
‐‐ Camille Pissarro

At first acoustics attributed to the different sounds only a limited number of characteristic features.
‐‐ Roman Jakobson

At first, because this genre of music was so urban, sometimes we would sing songs that were so aggressive. And my parents didn't like it. They would break my cassettes and say, 'That music is garbage.'
‐‐ Yandel

At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
‐‐ Finn Wittrock

At first, being a storyteller, it was fun to dress up and fun to sing songs and pretend to be very dramatic - all of that stuff was just fun early on.
‐‐ Kelly McCreary

At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely loved by legions of readers. This apparent contradiction might be due to the fact that if they didn't screw up their lives, most losers would be the kind of power-elite, Type A go-getters whom readers love to hate.
‐‐ Kate Christensen

At first, dreams seem impossible, then improbable, and eventually inevitable.
‐‐ Christopher Reeve

At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence.
‐‐ Ray Stannard Baker

At first, 'Family Ties' seemed to just be a wonderful project of its time. These were the Reagan years, the new conservatism. Alex P. Keaton quickly became the Fonzie of the '80s, so it seemed very much a product of its time. But I soon began to realize that it went far beyond that. These great family shows transcend whatever time they are in.
‐‐ Michael Gross

At first glance, Martha Stewart, queen of artfully distressed home furnishings, might not seem to have much in common with Michael R. Milken, one-time king of junk bonds.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

At first, Hendrix went and became a superstar in London, but if he walked past the Apollo in Harlem, no one would know who he was. I'm the hip-hop version of him.
‐‐ Nayvadius Cash

At first, I ain't gon' lie, I used to be a little nervous about what people were gon' think about my music, but once I let that go, then everything started happening.
‐‐ Ty Dolla Sign

At first, I am giving energy to the creation, but later the creation seems to be giving energy to me.
‐‐ Robert Fritz

At first I assumed hate was the opposite of love. But it isn't. The opposite of love is indifference.
‐‐ Helen Fisher

At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom.
‐‐ Reese Hoffa

At first, I did stories on people who were maybe just eccentric. Omar was a natural progression from that.
‐‐ Jon Ronson

At first I didn't dig country.
‐‐ Charlie Rich

At first, I didn't hang out with celebrity kids. That wasn't the way I was brought up. I went to a run-of-the-mill Catholic primary school when we first moved to L.A. But then I went to a high school where there were lots of 'industry' children. Those weren't my best friends and I've never set out to make myself a part of that scene.
‐‐ Lily Collins

At first I didn't know if I wanted to do TV again. I can get bored quickly.
‐‐ Maria Bello

At first, I didn't know what to expect but I do say that I love our defensive coordinator, Tim Lewis.
‐‐ Michael Strahan

At first, I didn't like coming down to Los Angeles at all. It's like, everything's black and white compared to where I live out in the middle of nowhere. There's, like, 400 people in my town!
‐‐ Max Thieriot

At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.
‐‐ Larry David

At first I had some idea that the absence of color made the work more physical. Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.
‐‐ Jasper Johns

At first I'm sort of answering everything the way you're 'supposed to' answer, and I lost a bunch of followers... I was like, 'What the hell is this all about? What is Twitter supposed to be about? If you're not answering your fans, then what's the point?'
‐‐ Rick Hoffman

At first I missed it, but it was the amazing energy thing that happened during shows, when a lot of people were like Yay Yay Yeah! I missed that for a while. But I don't miss the regular and the business side of that whole thing.
‐‐ Bill Kreutzmann

At first I moved from Sydney to Melbourne, because most of the comedy was shot in Melbourne, and then from Melbourne to Los Angeles - and you have to sacrifice stuff.
‐‐ Rebel Wilson

At first, I only laughed at myself. Then I noticed that life itself is amusing. I've been in a generally good mood ever since.
‐‐ Marilyn vos Savant

At first I probably seem very abrupt, but I like efficiency. There's work and there's play, and I always think: 'Let's get the work over with so we can thoroughly enjoy the play.'
‐‐ Kathy Reichs

At first I read mostly books by Southern authors - black and white - because almost all the people I knew were born and raised in the South, starting with my mother. I remember I got a lot of Erskine Caldwell.
‐‐ Edward P. Jones

At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration.
‐‐ Chris Van Allsburg

At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours a day on it, because all I want to do is make it good and get it done.
‐‐ Tracy Kidder

At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.
‐‐ Phil Donahue

At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island.
‐‐ John Millington Synge

At first I wanted to be a jockey. I rode horses in Cleveland but I kept falling off and I was afraid of horses. So there wasn't much of a future in it.
‐‐ Tim Conway

At first I wanted to go to university, but I really didn't dare to. I was too self-conscious, being a working-class kid. It was really difficult. I was going to study history, but the professor asked me some questions I didn't understand, and I didn't dare to ask what they meant. I left university and went to work in the Post.
‐‐ Per Petterson

At first, I wanted to start my own label, but it was such a full-time job that it became too much.
‐‐ Vonda Shepard

At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.
‐‐ Julia Ormond

At first I was a little leery to just post photos of my little girl all the time and kind of exploit her to the world.
‐‐ Jake Owen

At first, I was able to use a Bunsen burner attached to my mother's gas stove, but the use of the kitchen as a laboratory came to an abrupt end when a minor explosion involving hydrogen sulphide spattered the newly painted decor and changed the colour from blue to dirty green!
‐‐ John Vane

At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters who were people.
‐‐ Jacqueline Bisset

At first, I was called a quack, a charlatan, and worse, year after year, in Australia, England and the United States, by men who simply refused to believe that a nurse from 'the bush' could devise a treatment which succeeded where they had failed.
‐‐ Elizabeth Kenny

At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
‐‐ Earl Sweatshirt