All Quotes

For a while I didn't believe in marriage. But I think I do believe in having a love. I'm not saying only one love ever, but in having a good, solid relationship. I think that's possible.
‐‐ Penn Badgley

For a while, I didn't want to leave the house. Eventually, I just got sick of being indoors. Now I take steps not to be noticed when I don't want to be. For instance, I live near Westfield shopping centre, so I won't go there at the weekend.
‐‐ Ben Hardy

For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood that a Lou Reed song was anything I wanted to write about.
‐‐ Lou Reed

For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States.
‐‐ Bill Sienkiewicz

For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I did not have the misery in my heart that the blues required.
‐‐ John C. Reilly

For a while I had somebody that came to clean my house that turned out to be in a band that I really loved.
‐‐ Carrie Brownstein

For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge - this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, 'Gee, what an idiot. I was risking my life just for the sensation of it.'
‐‐ Steven Seagal

For a while, I stopped enjoying making movies and I stopped enjoying acting, because I made a few decisions that I wish I hadn't made.
‐‐ Paul Bettany

For a while, I think in 1994, it got to where I didn't want to practice.
‐‐ Payne Stewart

For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?
‐‐ Jim Hodges

For a while I thought about studying medicine at school and becoming a doctor because I've always been interested in psychology and how people's minds operate. But I'm able to explore some of that as an actor and ultimately I think it seems more interesting.
‐‐ Rumer Willis

For a while, I thought, maybe I should direct, until I got to New York and saw the stupidity of that idea. If it's hard to get into acting, what is it like for a woman to become a director?
‐‐ Linda Hunt

For a while, I thought that I was only going to be cast in Second World War films.
‐‐ Carice van Houten

For a while, I thought the great disappointment of my life was that I don't have a family of my own. Then it dawned on me: That's not what I think; that's what married people think.
‐‐ Lewis Black

For a while I was collecting Satan and devil stuff - you know, anything that had to do with old Beelzebub or Lucifer. But I had to put the brakes on it, because there's a lot of stuff out there, and the collection was just growing too quickly.
‐‐ Kirk Hammett

For a while, I was drawing on good paper, but now I've gone back to the bad stuff. I put matte medium on it. If you put matte medium on it, it seals up, so it doesn't really matter.
‐‐ Jean-Michel Basquiat

For a while I was living in New Orleans for like 4, 5 years. I had just come back to town.
‐‐ Delta Burke

For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.
‐‐ Toyin Odutola

For a while I was on the cover of every Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, which was regarded as the pinnacle of success in America.
‐‐ Elle Macpherson

For a while, I was only being sent fat-girl parts. Seriously? Sometimes I feel like I'm making some kind of radical statement because I'm a size 6.
‐‐ Melanie Lynskey

For a while I was perfectly happy not performing with 'The Who.' From 1982 to 1989 I felt 'The Who' did not exist. I let the band go, in my heart. However, Roger Daltrey had other ideas. He would not let go.
‐‐ Pete Townshend

For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' and 'Midnight Express.' I could name you tons more. I would go off and experience life instead of working - I was learning to fly jets, went on an African safari, sailed the Caribbean - which wasn't necessarily bad.
‐‐ John Travolta

For a while I was suicidal and I tried to kill myself. I think I should have died about four times.
‐‐ Jack Osbourne

For a while I was thinking about moving the mouse with my hand.
‐‐ Matt Nagle

For a while, I was working on transcribing rap lyrics and then converting them into rhythmic patterns on the piano. And so in my mind, when I was taking a solo, I would be saying the lyrics and trying to play actual notes to their rhythms. Now, the influence just comes in and out in my playing.
‐‐ Jason Moran

For a while it was hard for me to say no to work.
‐‐ Renee Fleming

For a while, my private life was the most talked about thing.
‐‐ Selena Gomez

For a while now I've had this feeling that there's something that I'm supposed to be doing or something that I'm supposed to contribute. I don't know what that is yet, but it's been plaguing me - like I've missed my calling somehow.
‐‐ Emma Caulfield

For a while, people couldn't understand why I'd find them so fascinating, but I'd rather go to a trial than to a Broadway play. Now that we have Court TV, they see what I mean.
‐‐ Ann Rule

For a while, the world for me was like a set of monkey bars. I swung from one place to the next, sometimes backward, sometimes forward, capitalizing on my own momentum, knowing that at some point my arms... would give out, and I'd fall to the ground.
‐‐ Amanda Lindhout

For a while there, I was a stringer. The expression comes from the old habit of stringing together the column inches that you had written. They'd measure it and pay you 10 cents an inch for your printed copy.
‐‐ Charles Kuralt

For a while... to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don't want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen... I don't want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.
‐‐ Joel Osteen

For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.
‐‐ Lawrence Welk

For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows.
‐‐ Shelley Duvall

For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the rights, so we decided to create something from scratch, with Jonathan. By that time we were big fans of his work.
‐‐ Neil Tennant

For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novelists, and my initial attraction was to write fiction. But I was much less suited for it. I always struggled to figure out what people were saying or doing in a particular moment.
‐‐ David Grann

For a whole generation after the battle of Pydna, the Roman state enjoyed a profound calm, scarcely varied by a ripple here and there on the surface.
‐‐ Theodor Mommsen

For a woman, body image is always a palpable thing. Weirdly, for me, the only time I don't care is when I'm in character.
‐‐ Juno Temple

For a woman, forty is torture, the end.
‐‐ Grace Kelly

For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
‐‐ Victoria Woodhull

For a woman to say she has had a dalliance with another woman is quite trendy these days. I do not like trendiness. Life isn't about dalliances - it's about individuals. You come across people in your life that you find very interesting. It's not about something flighty.
‐‐ Saffron Burrows

For a woman who's a widow and pretty much a loner, I can walk out, and I'm surrounded by NYU kids. The energy jumps off the sidewalks, and I never feel sad or bored.
‐‐ Blythe Danner

For a workout, I love to hike or take a long walk. Being outside is crucial; I can't stand gyms.
‐‐ Alice Greczyn

For a writer, and particularly a writer of my genre, which is the fantastical, I think that it's to my advantage to feel remote from and disconnected from the world of deal making.
‐‐ Clive Barker

For a writer, children make life needlessly hard. I've muddled through a lot of things, but I have not muddled through my writing life. I work absolutely flat out, giving it my all.
‐‐ Richard Ford

For a writer, for the solitude to write, you don't need a room of your own, you need a house.
‐‐ Sandra Cisneros

For a writer it's a dream to sit and watch people as close as possible.
‐‐ Jill Scott

For a writer, its very attractive to stay in one world for a time.
‐‐ Terry Brooks

For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
‐‐ Cao Yu

For a writer, New York works well. Literary work is very elitist. I worked two hours a day, maximum, and the time after that was very agreeable. I walked a lot with pleasure. Those two hours augmented the day. I wrote more here than in Paris, an entire chapter of a new novel.
‐‐ Ismail Kadare