All Quotes

During my 8 years in office, I set up a special investigatory branch as part of the highest court level. As it happened, from the time I set it up until now, I'm the one who has been investigated under that procedure. Of course, I had not expected this to happen.
‐‐ Chen Shui-bian

During my administration, we've welcomed a broad and diverse group of industries to New Mexico, including high-tech and traditional manufacturing, health care, information technology and finance. Some are homegrown New Mexico companies; others are global leaders in their industries.
‐‐ Susana Martinez

During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
‐‐ Laird Barron

During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and 'style' as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older.
‐‐ Chris Ware

During my breakdown, many things, tiny things I had not even registered before, had begun to torment me with guilt. I used to steal Splenda from Starbucks. I would go into a Starbucks whenever I needed the sweetener and would take a fistful of packets, even when I didn't buy a coffee.
‐‐ Akhil Sharma

During my campaign, people of my age and younger said consistently that they would not vote because their votes simply no longer matter and because no government or member of Parliament cared a whit about their problems and their striving for employment.
‐‐ Charles Kennedy

During my career as an airline pilot, I had the opportunity to be a check and training captain. Part of this job was to train and test experienced pilots to ensure that they had the necessary knowledge and skills to safely and efficiently operate those magnificent big jets.
‐‐ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

During my career I've enjoyed re-invigorating and contextualizing classic characters that are relatable to contemporary audiences.
‐‐ David S. Goyer

During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
‐‐ Ferdinand Piech

During my childhood, I felt older than my years because I felt responsible for my brothers and sisters.
‐‐ Pattie Boyd

During my childhood, I played just about every sport imaginable, which became less feasible at Juilliard... Although I remember our annual dodge-ball game as a highlight. The Juilliard 'Fighting Penguins' are a force to be reckoned with.
‐‐ Seth Numrich

During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
‐‐ Jack Davenport

During my childhood, my father, a Southern Baptist minister, and my mother, a teacher, made sure I took educational trips to cities such as Washington, D.C., Williamsburg, Va., Philadelphia, and Boston to learn about America's history.
‐‐ Tim Griffin

During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
‐‐ Irvin D. Yalom

During my days as a soccer player, my teammates used to call me 'Touch' because I have a touch of blonde hair on my forehead which is a birth mark. But now swimming is my favourite sport.
‐‐ Chad le Clos

During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. I literally spent hours each day reading God's word, meditating on scripture and praying. I intentionally spent a significant amount of time being still before God.
‐‐ Rick Warren

During my 'difficult teens,' I read about worlds that were mysterious.
‐‐ Beeban Kidron

During my draft process, I had Seattle come and work me out. This is one of the places where I thought I might be drafted. I'm glad it worked out I'm here.
‐‐ B. J. Daniels

During my early skating years, there were not many ice rinks in Korea, and even the few rinks that existed, most of them were public.
‐‐ Kim Yuna

During my early years at Minnesota I conducted an evening enzyme seminar.
‐‐ Paul D. Boyer

During my eighty-seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
‐‐ Bernard Baruch

During my eleven years as a New York City public school teacher, I saw firsthand the impact that poverty has on the classroom. In low-income neighborhoods like Sunset Park, where I taught, students as young as five years old enter school affected by the stresses often created by poverty: domestic violence, drug abuse, gang activity.
‐‐ Sal Albanese

During my film career, I have received love and affection from Indian cinegoers. I have received unconditional love from them.
‐‐ Dilip Kumar

During my first marriage, my career was the most important thing in my life.
‐‐ Michael Douglas

During my first month in Italy I lived a nomadic life.
‐‐ Hugh Dalton

During my first Olympics in 1980, at the age of 23, I was physically in great condition but mentally too inexperienced to cope comfortably in the pressure cooker of an Olympic year.
‐‐ Sebastian Coe

During my first open ocean dive, I went down to 800 feet and turned out the lights. I knew I would see bioluminescence, but I was totally unprepared for how much. It was incredible! There were explosions of light everywhere, like being in the middle of a silent fireworks display.
‐‐ Edith Widder

During my first photo shoot, I was unhappy because they put so much makeup on me and straightened my hair. I've been stubborn ever since.
‐‐ Norah Jones

During my first pregnancy, I spent a lot of time worrying about how big I was getting and how I would lose it afterwards.
‐‐ Tori Spelling

During my first term in Congress, I signed a pledge that I will take no more earmarks and I've been faithful to that pledge.
‐‐ Michele Bachmann

During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.
‐‐ Famke Janssen

During my first year as a graduate student, we worked on a measurement of the isotope shift and hyperfine structure of mercury isotopes.
‐‐ Burton Richter

During my first years in the Sierra, I was ever calling on everybody within reach to admire them, but I found no one half warm enough until Emerson came. I had read his essays, and felt sure that of all men he would best interpret the sayings of these noble mountains and trees. Nor was my faith weakened when I met him in Yosemite.
‐‐ John Muir

During my four years as treasurer, we restructured our pension system, cutting the state's unfunded liability almost by half and putting our retirement system on stronger footing.
‐‐ Gina Raimondo

During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so I should try playing QB. Well half an hour later, it was abundantly clear that I should not be the QB.
‐‐ David Einhorn

During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.
‐‐ Namie Amuro

During my jury selection process, we went through over 360 jurors. It took six months, all New York residents. Of the 360 jurors, over half of them had been mugged one time. Quite a number of them, maybe 30 40, 50, had been mugged twice.
‐‐ Bernhard Goetz

During my last voyage to America, I enjoyed the happiness of seeing that revolution completed, and, thinking of the one that would probably occur in France, I said in a speech to Congress, published everywhere except in the 'French Gazette,' 'May this revolution serve as a lesson to oppressors and as an example to the oppressed!'
‐‐ Marquis de Lafayette

During my life I have heard many sermons on the Resurrection. I can recite the events of that first Easter Sunday. I have marked in my scriptures passages regarding the Resurrection.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.
‐‐ Mika Waltari

During my lifetime, I realized that discrimination was not accidental, that there were structural roots and causes to it. So if we wanted to change women's lives, we need to deal with those root causes.
‐‐ Michelle Bachelet

During my long study sessions in the library, I found myself watching YouTube videos during study breaks.
‐‐ Ray William Johnson

During my McGill years, I took a number of math courses, more than other students in chemistry.
‐‐ Rudolph A. Marcus

During my military service, I performed a sketch in which I played a flea called Max. So when critics kept misspelling my name, I decided to change it and thought, 'Ah! Max!'
‐‐ Max von Sydow

During my nearly five years as director-general of WHO, high-level policymakers have increasingly recognized that health is central to sustainable development.
‐‐ Gro Harlem Brundtland

During my New York run, I injured my voice badly. I was getting increasingly hoarse, and it finally gave up. The doctor said I had two choices. Either cancel things, or try my luck and perhaps never speak again. That's not much of a choice.
‐‐ Trevor Noah

During my own gap year, I learned an invaluable lesson - that I was a lousy teacher. Even though the children I 'taught,' in upcountry Uganda, were desperate for qualifications, they largely ignored me. Until, that is, I realised that they wanted to hear about other young persons around the world.
‐‐ Simon Hoggart

During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing a period of fifteen years, I worked in the company of perhaps the greatest collection of scientific talent the world has ever known.
‐‐ Frederick Reines

During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise and great relief, they often wanted to talk - they wanted their recently deceased loved ones recorded in print.
‐‐ Tom Rachman