All Quotes

During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
‐‐ John James Audubon

During an early performance of 'Spamalot,' I left my regal gloves in the fridge to cool down and didn't remember them until I was on stage. They needed to be thawed overnight.
‐‐ Sanjeev Bhaskar

During an economic crisis, what matters is that the government keeps its foot on the accelerator.
‐‐ David Ignatius

During an economic slowdown, one needs to be cautious, but I think it's equally important to not get sucked into the vortex of defensive thinking.
‐‐ Pankaj Patel

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.
‐‐ Emma Thompson

During an open water swim, it's easy to lose your direction. With all the splash, it can be quite hard to see the next buoy, so I look behind it for something bigger, like a tree or a building, and aim for that instead.
‐‐ Jonathan Brownlee

During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

During breakfast there is something I cannot resist, apart from my boyfriend - it's actually the phone. I have a phone breakfast. Always. I call friends, boyfriend, family. Checking who is where. 'Is everything fine?' This is breakfast.
‐‐ Christian Louboutin

During Breaking The Waves, I was on my own in a hotel room. I think I would have been impossible to live with. When you go home, you have to pretend to be the person you are at home.
‐‐ Emily Watson

During 'Chicago Hope,' I never let directors talk to me, because I was so spoiled. I started off with people like Milos Forman, Sidney Lumet, James Lapine, unbelievably gifted people. So there I was, saying, 'Don't talk to me, I don't want your opinion.' I behaved abominably.
‐‐ Mandy Patinkin

During childbearing years, changing jobs - even for a fundamentally better gig - can be a very bad idea. Those prime childbearing years - mid-twenties to early forties - overlap precisely with prime professional years. This is when employees are most attractive to new employers, when they should be able to zip up ladders with the most alacrity.
‐‐ Rebecca Traister

During college I realized I had a music predisposition and really got involved in it. I started playing bass guitar. That was how I began to fit in.
‐‐ Ronnie Dunn

During consideration in the Education and the Workforce Committee this year, Democrats and Republicans worked constructively together to improve the delivery of Head Start services to the target populations.
‐‐ Lucille Roybal-Allard

During dark times, real entrepreneurs come out. They are not competing with 10 look-alike companies for engineering talent, so it's a great time to invest and help build companies.
‐‐ Douglas Leone

During difficult times, it's best to cut down on sweets like cookies, cake and candy. Satisfy your sweet tooth with fruit to help prevent blood sugar dips and spikes.
‐‐ Karen Salmansohn

During events like the World Cup and the Olympics, I tend to get really wrapped up in my own experience to stay focused, but it's like a bubble. I don't see much outside my own perspective.
‐‐ Abby Wambach

During every race, an ambulance trails the riders around the course. You know that sometimes you are going to end up in the back of that ambulance.
‐‐ Tony McCoy

During exposure, interference takes place between the incident rays and those reflected by the mirror, with the formation of interference fringes half a wavelength distant from each other.
‐‐ Gabriel Lippmann

During first grade, I spent nearly every afternoon for months in the school nurse's office, sick with psychosomatic headaches, begging to go home; by third grade, stomachaches had replaced the headaches, but my daily trudge to the infirmary remained the same.
‐‐ Scott Stossel

During Governor Jennifer Granholm's administration, Michigan has experienced job losses, declining personal incomes, diminishing home values, and the highest unemployment rate in the nation.
‐‐ Tim Walberg

During Grover Cleveland's second term, in the 1890s, the White House deceived the public by dismissing allegations that surgeons had removed a cancerous growth from the President's mouth; a vulcanized-rubber prosthesis disguised the absence of much of Cleveland's upper left jaw and part of his palate.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

During half a century of literary work, I have endeavoured to introduce the philosophy of evolution into the sphere of literature, and to inspire my readers to think in evolutionary terms.
‐‐ Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

During 'Hawthorne', I was constantly trying not to be too outrageous and keep it serious. This has been so refreshing for me because it's such a good outlet for the inner me to just be. That's the whole point of 'Glee' anyways - to just be who you are and that's enough. I really feel that way on set.
‐‐ Vanessa Lengies

During high school, I would purposely lose tennis and squash matches to escape the agony of anxiety that competitive situations would provoke in me.
‐‐ Scott Stossel

During his brilliant campaign, President Obama wove a powerful narrative about the American we all hope for. And that hope was grounded in a very powerful reality: President Obama's own inspiring life story.
‐‐ Cynthia P. Schneider

During his presidency, Truman and the Republicans were locked in a series of furious assaults on each other that outraged him and made Truman an enduring foe of a party and its representatives, which he saw as on the wrong side of almost every domestic and foreign policy issue he considered important.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

During his public life, Barack Obama has often referred to his biracial background and itinerant childhood and has said, 'In no other country on Earth is my story even possible.' True.
‐‐ Monica Crowley

During his runs for the GOP presidential nomination, Mitt Romney has done a good job of mimicking Reagan's anti-government diatribes and 'better days ahead' rhetoric.
‐‐ Jackson Katz

During holiday parties I end up recycling a lot of my cocktail dresses and just wearing a layering piece, like a blazer and tights, with it.
‐‐ Lauren Conrad

During holiday parties when people used to ask me what I did for a living, I would tell them I sold resort timeshares. That was an effective conversational nonstarter, until I met someone that actually did sell resort timeshares.
‐‐ Dean Karnazes

During 'Idol,' I wasn't expecting anything. I just wanted to survive the competition, but my album and my music are a big part of who I am. Hopefully it translates well and I keep growing as an artist.
‐‐ Jessica Sanchez

During intervals of humanity, some disposition has been manifested to permit the return of those who have never offended, who have been banished by a terror which the government itself has reprobated, & to permit in case of arrestation, an investigation of the fact of emigration as well as of the identity of the person accus'd.
‐‐ John Marshall

During its first year of operation, Florida Virtual School had 77 students. The next year, it had 476 students; then 2,489 students the year after that.
‐‐ Dan Webster

During 'Jersey Boys,' I discovered one of the most rewarding ways to use your goodwill is to motivate fans and friends into lending support to charity.
‐‐ John Lloyd Young

During Katherine Hepburn's time when she was just coming into her own at 40.
‐‐ Andie MacDowell

During last night's debate, John Kerry and John Edwards were so friendly to each other some political experts think that they may end up running together. In fact Kerry and Edwards were so friendly, President Bush accused them of planning a gay marriage.
‐‐ Conan O'Brien

During launch, the outside of the rocket is covered in a protective fairing, so we couldn't see outside, but as soon as that was jettisoned, my first view of the earth was over the Pacific Ocean, which was this wonderful deep blue, with clouds just over the top, and sunlight streaming in through the window.
‐‐ Helen Sharman

During long car rides to the set, after I study my script, I go onto my iPad to read books and play games.
‐‐ Nolan Gould

During 'Manchurian Candidate' - that role originated with Laurence Harvey, and I studied everything he did. I would never be able to reproduce that performance, but I got a lot of ideas from watching it.
‐‐ Liev Schreiber

During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.
‐‐ Mike Love

During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.
‐‐ Kurt Vonnegut

During most of my life, my contact with Jews and Judaism was slight. I gave little thought to their problems, save in asking myself, from time to time, whether we were showing by our lives due appreciation of the opportunities which this hospitable country affords. My approach to Zionism was through Americanism.
‐‐ Louis D. Brandeis

During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.
‐‐ Elliott Abrams

During my 2004 presidential campaign, I was fond of saying that it was high time for the Christian right to meet the right Christians.
‐‐ Al Sharpton

During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.
‐‐ Imran Khan

During my 30 years on Wall Street, taxes on 'unearned income' have bounced up and down with regularity, and I've never detected any change in the appetite for hard work and accumulating wealth on the part of myself or any of my fellow capitalists.
‐‐ Steven Rattner

During my 40-year coaching career at West Point, Indiana and Texas Tech, my teams reached the Final Four on five occasions, winning the national championship three times.
‐‐ Bobby Knight

During my 40s, I thought I couldn't wear red lipstick. I thought it was just too much and I couldn't do it anymore. I don't know why. But now, I'm going to wear red lipstick for as long as I want.
‐‐ Andie MacDowell

During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
‐‐ Dana Rohrabacher