All Quotes

For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I had no other social life. I don't want my life to be like that now. I've spent the past 10 years having a real life as well. But Spandau Ballet is such a difficult shadow to outrun.
‐‐ Gary Kemp

For 24 years of my adult life, by choice I weighed well over 200 pounds. I say 'by choice' because I have never 'accidentally' eaten anything, so when I choose to eat too much, I have chosen to weigh too much.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar

For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.
‐‐ Joyce Maynard

For 25 years, it has been my privilege to represent the city of San Francisco and the great state of California; to work to strengthen our vibrant middle class; to secure opportunity and equality.
‐‐ Nancy Pelosi

For 25 years practicing medicine, I never asked anybody if they were a Republican or a Democratic or an independent and asked if they had insurance or not. I took care of everybody.
‐‐ John Barrasso

For 30 years I've been responsible for managing client money, and it's been a joy, but at some point I need to move on. Thirty years is enough.
‐‐ Stanley Druckenmiller

For 30 years I've been schooled in everything from government, and economics, to medicine and international relations. But don't be impressed. Someone once said being a general assignment reporter simply means you are equally ignorant about most everything. In other words, I know a little about a lot.
‐‐ Lester Holt

For 30 years, which I never talked about in Hollywood, I actually worked with doctors lecturing and doing some medical intuitive counseling both in a medical setting and for the community at large.
‐‐ Diane Ladd

For 300 years, higher education was not disruptable because there was no technological core.
‐‐ Clayton M. Christensen

For 35 years, I was a writer. I wrote a lot of jokes. Some of them weren't funny. Some of them weren't appropriate. Some of them were downright offensive. I understand that.
‐‐ Al Franken

For 40 years, I put my body through a tremendous amount of work.
‐‐ Lee Majors

For 42 years, I worked nonstop from 7 A.M. to 5 P.M., day in and day out.
‐‐ Stewart Rahr

For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.
‐‐ Jack Klugman

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
‐‐ Harold Evans

For 50 years, nuclear power stations have produced three products which only a lunatic could want: bomb-explosive plutonium, lethal radioactive waste and electricity so dear it has to be heavily subsidised. They leave to future generations the task, and most of the cost, of making safe sites that have been polluted half-way to eternity.
‐‐ James Buchan

For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.
‐‐ George McGovern

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

For 6 days a week I aim to get in between 18-23 miles.
‐‐ Jonathan Brown

For $60, I once bought a neck massage at a 'massage parlor' that advertised in 'The Washington Post.'
‐‐ Gene Weingarten

For 70 nights, right across America, I've been getting out there with two ex-lovers and we've been playing songs which are so specific about each of us, you just wouldn't know. We're friends now but we can't forget what happened between us.
‐‐ Stevie Nicks

For 73 years a totalitarian regime ruled the country. Totalitarian regime.
‐‐ Aleksandr Lebed

For 82 minutes, 'The Little Mermaid' reclaims the movie house as a dream palace and the big screen as a window into enchantment. Live-action filmmakers, see this and try to top it. Go on and try.
‐‐ Richard Corliss

For a 12-year-old with a hyperactive imagination who liked to dream of dreary gothic castles, suburban Florida felt a little stifling.
‐‐ Ransom Riggs

For a 7-iron, you never want the ball to be closer to your left heel than just slightly ahead of the mid-point of your stance. That's especially true if you're a tall player, like me.
‐‐ Ernie Els

For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.
‐‐ Ed O'Brien

For a believer, Christian faith is true to the human heart, not in the sense that any old thing we fancy believing in will become conveniently true - but because the complicated truth about our hearts, as we struggle to perceive it, tells us what we are and where we are, and consequently what we need.
‐‐ Francis Spufford

For a bill to become law, it truly has to be the will of the people, and for a president to stop the will of the people and stop what you're trying to do in your state is not the role of Washington.
‐‐ Nikki Haley

For a bird, especially for the more musically inventive, song is the defining characteristic, the primary way by which it knows itself and is known by others. To lose its species song is to lose not just its identity but some part of its presence in the world.
‐‐ John Burnside

For a black student to work in southwest Mississippi for example - or in the Delta in 1960, 1961, 1962 - was high-risk work.
‐‐ John Doar

For a blink of an eye, there was so much media glare. It was unexpected, and I don't think we realized the magnitude of the message we were imparting with 'The Nanny Diaries.' There was also this added challenge that some of the media power players whose publications were doing stories on us perceived us to be sniping at their lifestyles.
‐‐ Emma McLaughlin

For a border state, I would argue that Texas is less lunatic on the subject of immigration issues than other places around it, like Arizona. They're much more comfortable with their long-term identity as a place with a very large Hispanic population.
‐‐ Gail Collins

For a Bostonian... we live in the shadow of New York, and to be acknowledged by New Yorkers is really the greatest feeling.
‐‐ Donnie Wahlberg

For a boy of ten, used to the coal bings and rust-coloured burns of Cowdenbeath, the fields and woodland of Kingswood, with its overgrown but stately avenue of copper-barked sequoias, felt like a local version of paradise.
‐‐ John Burnside

For a boy or girl, driving cars that they love is fun.
‐‐ Luke Goss

For a brief time in the 1850s, the telegraph companies of England and the United States thought that they could (and should) preserve every message that passed through their wires. Millions of telegrams - in fireproof safes. Imagine the possibilities for history!
‐‐ James Gleick

For a Canadian, natural resources were a good fit.
‐‐ Peter Munk

For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.
‐‐ George A. Romero

For a century after the reign of Frederick, Prussia remained the most prominent Germanic state in Europe.
‐‐ Kelly Miller

For a century, everyone assumed that the iconic Tiffany lamps were conceived and designed by that American master of stained glass. Not so! It was a woman!
‐‐ Susan Vreeland

For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
‐‐ John Lothrop Motley

For a change, lady luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.
‐‐ Timothy Zahn

For a child actor, it's a matter of listening, reacting, and being able to put yourself in a new place without being scared.
‐‐ Jena Malone

For a child, reading a book can be such an intense experience.
‐‐ Michelle Paver

For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be.
‐‐ Lionel Blue

For a clean makeup finish, I use Cle de Peau translucent pressed powder.
‐‐ Rena Sofer

For a combination of reasons, and despite evident fondness for American products and individuals, my impression is that most Pakistanis have extremely negative views of the U.S. as a geopolitical player.
‐‐ Mohsin Hamid

For a comedian, there is nothing better than watching another great comedian.
‐‐ Bob Newhart

For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.
‐‐ Rebel Wilson

For a comedy to work, magic has to happen.
‐‐ Bradley Cooper

For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.
‐‐ Michael Jordan