All Quotes

For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.
‐‐ John Lydon

For a guy who believes in hope, Obama doesn't seem to be able to spread much of it around. How can he? We know too much now about the hollowness of institutions and the frailty of their leaders.
‐‐ Tina Brown

For a guy who used to steal watches on the streets of Chandni Chowk for kicks, I surely think my success at the age of 22 was pretty early!
‐‐ Akshay Kumar

For a gymnast to be successful, she needs to strike a balance of everything within herself. She needs to be graceful, flexible, perform all elements, turns, maintain co-ordination - she has to have all of that. If, for example, she only has co-ordination and nothing else, she will not succeed.
‐‐ Yana Kudryavtseva

For a healthy society, those laws and conventions should always support marriage as an institution characterised by an openness to children and the responsibility of fathers and mothers remaining together to care for children born into their family.
‐‐ Vincent Nichols

For a heterosexual man - I know that's a hotly debated topic, but only among those who don't know me - I have grown to really appreciate fashion.
‐‐ Rodger Berman

For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.
‐‐ Bill Gates

For a homebody like me, the evolution of gadgets has been a blessing.
‐‐ Okky Madasari

For a house, somewhere near Los Angeles I found an old church. Very old, no longer used. So we moved the church to the land, and I took off the steeple, and I got my hands dirty.
‐‐ Douglas Sirk

For a human audience, seeing things that are slightly more otherworldly and beyond human power is always really fun and exciting to watch.
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly

For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.
‐‐ Barry Manilow

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.
‐‐ Howard Nemerov

For a journalist who covers the Muslim world, we have responsibilities to be familiar with that culture and to know how to respond to that.
‐‐ Lynsey Addario

For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
‐‐ Orlando Bloom

For a kid, self-esteem can be as close at hand as a sports victory or a sense of belonging in a peer group. It's a much more complicated and elusive proposition for adults, subject to the responsibilities and vicissitudes of grown-up life.
‐‐ Meghan Daum

For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.
‐‐ Jon Hamm

For a large number of problems, there will be some animal of choice, or a few such animals, on which it can be most conveniently studied.
‐‐ August Krogh

For 'A Little Night Music,' I did try to get little bit more beefed up for that because I thought that would help me carry myself around the stage in that character.
‐‐ Aaron Lazar

For a little while, my mom was a school teacher. And I went to the school that she taught.
‐‐ Aisha Tyler

For a little while there, I was thinking, 'I don't want to be in anything on British TV'. I didn't watch any of it because it was rubbish.
‐‐ Neve McIntosh

For a London play, rehearsal time would be four weeks for the entire show. In films, I'd spend six weeks on the big dance numbers to get them perfect before the actual shooting.
‐‐ Jessie Matthews

For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.
‐‐ Mary Garden

For a long period of history, you were what people said about you, and if your reputation was stained, you were in very serious trouble. People fought duels over this. Then it fades away historically.
‐‐ James Lasdun

For a long-running TV show, you're looking for a character who is interesting and vibrant and you can imagine going into all kinds of different areas.
‐‐ Scott Bakula

For a long time all I wanted for Christmas were books about outdoor survival. I was convinced that the woods were calling me. I camped a lot, I took classes. At 18, I told myself if I don't live in the woods by myself by the time I'm 25, I have failed.
‐‐ Chris Evans

For a long time, because I'm pretty tall, I was scared to wear heels, but now I wear them all the time. I feel like I'm still discovering my stage style, but I love - well, I'm not a huge color person onstage, but I am in real life. I like short stuff, big heels, fringe, lots of fringe, sometimes sparkle, yeah!
‐‐ Kelsea Ballerini

For a long time, censors have been cutting my works. This makes me so sad, because many times they will tell me, 'Television won't like, so we have to cut, cut, cut!'
‐‐ Dario Argento

For a long time, companies ignored the fact that 80 percent of sporting goods are sold to the casual consumer.
‐‐ Jochen Zeitz

For a long time, I believed that a great piece of music on its own could do more to stir the soul than any other single art form.
‐‐ Chris Milk

For a long time, I can't say I was one who really enjoyed acting. I was always censoring it, or editing it, or analyzing it, rather than just going with it.
‐‐ Michael Douglas

For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts; it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cause I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls.
‐‐ Van Morrison

For a long time, I couldn't even afford food and clothing. I climbed from the very bottom of the society.
‐‐ Zong Qinghou

For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.
‐‐ Bill Bryson

For a long time, I'd wanted to write a book that I would be proud and happy and psychologically and morally comfortable about my parents' reading.
‐‐ Glen Duncan

For a long time, I'd work until 10 or 11. When I work, I'm on. I'm 'Magic.' I love it, but it takes a lot out of me.
‐‐ Magic Johnson

For a long time, I debated about whether I would make movies or join the circus and work as a clown.
‐‐ Denis Lavant

For a long time, I did feel aware that I wasn't pretty or bubbly enough. Nor was I sexy-looking.
‐‐ Hattie Morahan

For a long time I did not want to do television because I did not want to get stuck playing the same person. I wanted the ongoing challenge of a variety of roles.
‐‐ Kathy Bates

For a long time, I didn't give anything my all. I was so afraid that I'd be crap, so I held myself back.
‐‐ Rufus Sewell

For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.
‐‐ Padma Lakshmi

For a long time, I didn't think I wanted to live in the Ozarks or write about the region. It seemed to be a sure recipe for obscurity, and to be obscure was not my conscious ambition.
‐‐ Daniel Woodrell

For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.
‐‐ Julian Casablancas

For a long time, I dressed like an idiot. In college, I had a fully shaved head with just two horns. Like, a coxcomb of hair that I would sculpt into two horns. I looked like a crazy person.
‐‐ Kurt Braunohler

For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine.
‐‐ A. S. Byatt

For a long time I felt like I was fighting my age, like I was constantly trying to prove to people that I was a savvy peer, and I felt them viewing me as a kid. I was a cocky kid, and I felt like I was an adult at, like, 9, you know? I think that's because my parents always treated me as an adult.
‐‐ Ezra Miller

For a long time, I had a crazy girl dating habit.
‐‐ Eli Roth

For a long time I had a vintage stall, where I sold men's vintage clothing, and my girlfriend was convinced it was just to do with a problem I had where I just couldn't stop buying senseless clothes, even if they didn't fit me.
‐‐ James Norton

For a long time, I have been inclined to start a school for the talented children.
‐‐ Sivamani

For a long time, I have been making many predictions, far in advance, of events since come to pass, naming the particular locality. I acknowledge all to have been accomplished through divine power and inspiration.
‐‐ Nostradamus

For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.
‐‐ Isabelle Huppert