All Quotes

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.
‐‐ Joseph Brodsky

For a writer, personal freedom is not so important. It is not individual freedom that guarantees the greatness of literature; otherwise, writers in democratic countries would be superior to all others. Some of the greatest writers wrote under dictatorship - Shakespeare, Cervantes.
‐‐ Ismail Kadare

For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
‐‐ Cao Yu

For a writer, the Book Festival is interesting because you bump into all these other writers whose work you know, whose names you know, and you have a chance to put a person with the name and the work.
‐‐ Steve Erickson

For a writer, they say write what you know. As a performer, you find it in yourself, in your heart. You relate to the character. You try to live it, try to have it be real for you.
‐‐ Uma Thurman

For a writer, you definitely do not want to be in the mainstream. You want to be on the edge because that's where the vantage point is. That's where you can see.
‐‐ Ruth Ozeki

For a year, I had all sorts of weirdos coming on to me.
‐‐ Boris Becker

For a year, I was the world's worst assistant to a talent manager. I was awful at it. Really disorganized. Just not the person you want at the front desk of your office.
‐‐ Kyle Bornheimer

For a young artist to really make it and make money is a lot more difficult these days.
‐‐ Norah Jones

For a young band about to make a record, make sure you get the vocals right.
‐‐ Jerry Harrison

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.
‐‐ Carl Jung

For about 30 years, Halloween was taken over by pranksters. By the '30s, pranks were causing cities millions of dollars of damage. They considered banning Halloween in many cities, but instead, parents got together and came up with party ideas for kids, and a lot of them involved dressing up and costuming.
‐‐ Lisa Morton

For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
‐‐ Daniel Day-Lewis

For about half an hour in mid-1992, I knew as much as any layperson about the pleasures of remote access of other people's computers.
‐‐ Elizabeth McCracken

For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People's ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing.
‐‐ John Zorn

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.
‐‐ Omar Bongo

For about the first ten years of my career, I wasn't terribly motivated.
‐‐ Ron Silver

For about twenty years, if I managed to write ten or twelve poems in a year; I considered that a pretty successful year, but I wrote 'The Beforelife' within a year.
‐‐ Franz Wright

For about two years, I was a little wild. I was out partying, having adventures.
‐‐ Jeremy Miller

For about two years, while researching 'The Wolf Border,' I was a complete wolf bore. I would regurgitate everything I was researching, whether people were interested or not.
‐‐ Sarah Hall

For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter.
‐‐ Marie de France

For acting, if there's a strong female role and there is that action element, for me that just feels really natural.
‐‐ Marisa Miller

For actors in Hollywood, it's very straightforward. We're well-paid animals in a zoo.
‐‐ Robin Wright

For actors, we always feel like there shouldn't be any divide for anybody. The industry is the one that kind of creates the idea that if you're such-and-such an actor, you can't be on the big screen.
‐‐ Scott Bakula

For actors, when you first get the project and you see that it's a Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman-produced project, right away, from an acting standpoint, you go, 'Wow. That'd be great to be part of that. What a career move that'd be.'
‐‐ Jon Seda

For actors, you've gotta sometimes fill in your backstory.
‐‐ Anna Gunn

For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria.
‐‐ Bill Gates

For African-American people, I am in the business of inventing a reality that gives a different perspective - on history, on crime, on art, on love.
‐‐ John Edgar Wideman

For African societies, no issue looms larger than employment. Only vibrant entrepreneurship and thriving small businesses can hope to provide the millions of jobs that are needed.
‐‐ Richard Attias

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.
‐‐ Rebecca Harding Davis

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
‐‐ Mary Augusta Ward

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
‐‐ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For ages, I had this mullet until someone on the street stopped me and said, 'Darling, can I cut your hair for free? Because you look a bit weird.'
‐‐ Natalia Tena

For ages, in my lunch hours, I would just go round and choreograph fight scenes. For fun. So now I'm very good at being thrown around. I bounce, in the words of my friends.
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe

For all aspects of memory, keep yourself physically fit. My catchphrase is, 'Healthy mind, healthy body, healthy body, healthy mind.' Your memory needs oxygen as fuel, so why not feed it often?
‐‐ Tony Buzan

For all founders, going public is a momentous milestone that has to be experienced to be fully understood. It is the culmination of years of hard work and personal sacrifice.
‐‐ Jay Samit

For all history up to the end of the Cold War, summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions, when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.
‐‐ Conrad Black

For all I know, I am beginning with the ending. My page one can wind up a year later as page two hundred, if it's still even around.
‐‐ Philip Roth

For all I know, my grandfather was a bank robber in Kilsyth.
‐‐ Peter Capaldi

For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
‐‐ Caitlyn Jenner

For all Italian people, family is very important. We don't fight with our families.
‐‐ Domenico Dolce

For all its flaws, 'The Hands of Orlac' really is a seminal film, and if you're partial to that particular B-movie subgenre of Demon Body Parts, you really ought to see it.
‐‐ Kage Baker

For all its problems, I found South Africa a beautiful country, interesting and inspiring.
‐‐ David Harewood

For all its shortcomings, Wikipedia does have strong governance and deliberative mechanisms; anyone who has ever followed discussions on Wikipedia's mailing lists will confirm that its moderators and administrators openly discuss controversial issues on a regular basis.
‐‐ Evgeny Morozov

For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
‐‐ Ferdinand Mount

For all its ubiquity and its universality, war offers the attraction of the extraordinary - the escape from the gray everyday, from the humdrum into higher things.
‐‐ Drew Gilpin Faust

For all its ups and downs and challenges, I love writing. We only grow through adversity, so I welcome the difficulties, knowing bumps in the road are my greatest teachers.
‐‐ Lori Wilde

For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
‐‐ Pedro Calderon de la Barca

For all men would be cowards if they durst.
‐‐ John Wilmot