All Quotes

Believe it or not, the first spark for everything I've done today came down to me meeting one person in college who changed my life. A student named Anthony Adams who lived across the hall from me in our freshman dorm showed me what it meant to be an 'entrepreneur' when I saw him launch his own start-up company.
‐‐ Elliott Bisnow

Believe it or not, there are members of Congress who actually want to govern and get stuff done. Unfortunately, there are others whose agendas and strategies serve to advance their own interests and expand their donor base.
‐‐ Jon Runyan

Believe it or not, there are some things that I have written that would be kind of a dream to make. Hopefully, I will get to finance them... There is something that I wrote called 'Demon's Flare' which would kind of be a dream come true.
‐‐ Steven Seagal

Believe it or not, there's a lot of humor in 'Mad Men.' Especially in the dark moments.
‐‐ Matthew Weiner

Believe it or not, there were very few books on art, years ago.
‐‐ James Rosenquist

Believe it or not, very little research has ever been funded to search for natural mechanisms of warming... it has simply been assumed that global warming is manmade. Climate change - it happens, with or without our help.
‐‐ Roy Spencer

Believe it or not, we will actually be better and happier workers if we are allowed to be better parents. We might even rediscover our capacity for fun.
‐‐ Anne-Marie Slaughter

Believe it or not, when you fast in the Spirit, God makes you more equipped to deal with hunger, irritability, and temptation.
‐‐ Monica Johnson

Believe me, although I really like the show, the reality of Philly Homicide is nothing like CBS's 'Cold Case.'
‐‐ Richard Montanari

Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.
‐‐ Pierre Salinger

Believe me, I did not come to London to cook farmed fish. All my fish are wild.
‐‐ Alain Ducasse

Believe me, I don't like being photographed. I don't like myself in pictures. Actually, I do sometimes.
‐‐ Darius Khondji

Believe me, I don't take that lightly. To have struck gold twice with 'Rent' and 'Wicked.' I know it's rare and I'm very lucky to have that kind of phenomenon in my life. They're not just great shows, they're shows that resonate with young audiences.
‐‐ Idina Menzel

Believe me, I love a good chocolate chip ice cream. I'm not going to go for some lousy version of it. If I'm going to have it, I'm going to have a really good one. I believe in treating yourself occasionally to something.
‐‐ Christie Brinkley

Believe me, I love commerce as much as the rest of the readers of 'Businessweek.' But in art, you have to be true to yourself and your musical vision. People have known me well for a long time, so if I was chasing a trend and doing something that wasn't authentic to who I am, they would know it in just a few seconds.
‐‐ Lionel Richie

Believe me, I'm not going to try to get into testing.
‐‐ John Engler

Believe me, I recognize the cultural and anatomical challenges and respect the sacrifices women make in order to balance family and a career, or family with no career, or career with no family.
‐‐ LZ Granderson

Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich.
‐‐ George Osborne

Believe me, I understand the need for easy and speedy. After a 12-hour day of shooting 'Chopped,' say, I'm talking stir-fry, spaghetti, heck, peanut-butter sandwiches. But that's not about the joy of food. That's survival.
‐‐ Ted Allen

Believe me, I've done my time travelling the world in cramped conditions and carrying my own luggage. Now my leisure is summers in the south of France or the Hamptons, walking in Connemara, and year-round shopping in Manhattan and Paris.
‐‐ Anne Robinson

Believe me - I've done very good stuff and very crazy stuff, and I don't regret the crazy stuff.
‐‐ Jean-Claude Van Damme

Believe me, I've had interviews where the person says, 'So when did you start and why? What about your parents?' I say to them, 'Please, have you heard of the word 'Google?''
‐‐ Itzhak Perlman

Believe me, I've taken a lot of heat for my mustache.
‐‐ Kevin Connolly

Believe me, I've totally blown any kind of so-called reputation I may have had. I really don't care. I think that's one of the joys of getting older; you just stop caring about things like that.
‐‐ Jane Wiedlin

Believe me, if anybody has a job and starts at 9, there's no reason why they can't get up at 4:30 or five and write for a couple of hours, and give their employers their second-best effort of the day - which is what I did.
‐‐ Mary Oliver

Believe me, it jabs you. When you're on the side of buses and New York loves you, you love to go out there every night. It's like a race. Curtain opens, out you go, and New York is yours.
‐‐ Angela Lansbury

Believe me, it's not easy being an actress and a producer, especially with no big daddy to support you.
‐‐ Amisha Patel

Believe me, it would be a long, long, cold day before I decide to warm up next to Rupert Murdoch.
‐‐ Irwin Winkler

Believe me, my children have more stamina than a power station.
‐‐ Robbie Coltrane

Believe me, my journey has not been a simple journey of progress. There have been many ups and downs, and it is the choices that I made at each of those times that have helped shape what I have achieved.
‐‐ Satya Nadella

Believe me, nobody likes to loaf more than me.
‐‐ John Goodman

Believe me, people with disabilities are just as concerned about benefit fraud as anyone else. Money spent on those who are not in need is money that isn't being spent on vital services to support us in the community.
‐‐ Stella Young

Believe me, than in half the creeds.
‐‐ Alfred Lord Tennyson

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.
‐‐ Natan Sharansky

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.
‐‐ Ron Paul

Believe me, the next step is a currency crisis because there will be a rejection of the dollar, the rejection of the dollar is a big, big event, and then your personal liberties are going to be severely threatened.
‐‐ Ron Paul

Believe me, there is nothing more rewarding than making Peter Jackson chuckle.
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly

Believe me, there's nothing I would like to do more than disappear for a while.
‐‐ Ronda Rousey

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
‐‐ Francois Rabelais

Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself, I am conscious of possessing a certain creative faculty.
‐‐ Robert Schumann

Believe me, when an actress is told that her very name is synonymous with bad acting, she's had it.
‐‐ Piper Laurie

Believe me, when I finish shooting 'Mad Men,' there's a huge chunk of time where I have a really hard time leaving my house without fake lashes on. Which is a complex because I'm not very good at applying fake lashes.
‐‐ Jessica Pare

Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business. My business.
‐‐ Mark Russell

Believe me when I say this: you can't please everyone in concert, even though I still want to. Someone always wants you to sing a song that isn't necessarily on your set list.
‐‐ Gladys Knight

Believe me, when people say, 'We want to pay you X-million to do this movie,' I won't be the girl who hangs back saying, 'Oh, I really don't deserve it,' I'll be, 'Un-hunh, hand it right over.'
‐‐ Sharon Stone

Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.
‐‐ Cameron Diaz

Believe me, you lose more than a gallon of fluids during a race. You could lose between six and 10 pounds during a race, depending on hot it is.
‐‐ Michael Andretti

Believe me, you need good people if you want to make good players.
‐‐ Gordon Strachan

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
‐‐ Rainer Maria Rilke