All Quotes

For me, writing is a love-hate relationship.
‐‐ Larry Wall

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.
‐‐ Francoise Sagan

For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.
‐‐ Ruth Ozeki

For me, writing is an experience. It's an exercise in which I want to discover myself by taking my characters to the edges of human experience, to the edges of themselves and then, asking certain questions - about love, what does it mean to love? What's beauty? What is true beauty?
‐‐ Ted Dekker

For me, writing is just processing.
‐‐ Mary Lambert

For me, writing is like being taken on a walk by a footnote: It's amazing where you end up.
‐‐ Ben Schott

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
‐‐ Lois McMaster Bujold

For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.
‐‐ Rachel Joyce

For me writing is that place where I can escape; it's where I let my thoughts run wild.
‐‐ Ella Henderson

For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided.
‐‐ Jamaica Kincaid

For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many novels you've completed in the last decade: every day you start fresh again with that same blank page, or that same blank screen.
‐‐ Lincoln Child

For me, writing post-apocalyptic novels isn't so much about exploding helicopters and fifty-megaton doomsday bombs as it is about the pleasure of dealing with the best of everything that makes us human: cleverness, grit, loyalty, and self-sacrifice.
‐‐ Jeff Carlson

For me, writing something down was the only road out.
‐‐ Anne Tyler

For me, writing stories is one way of feeling connected to the universe and God.
‐‐ Elif Safak

For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the best use of. That's probably why I get up so early and have writing time in the quiet dawn hours, when no one needs me.
‐‐ Barbara Kingsolver

For me, you can put on something by Bach, and I'll feel better.
‐‐ Nell Carter

For me, you don't ever want to be defined by the color of your skin. You want to be defined by your work ethic, the person that you are, your character, your personality. That's what I've tried to go out and do.
‐‐ Robert Griffin III

For me, you have to have some kind of modesty.
‐‐ Alek Wek

For me, you have to not have a formula. You have to not even sit down and say, 'I want to write right now.' It has to just kind of come out. It's not something you can plan.
‐‐ Chris Daughtry

For me... you know, the most I've paid for a haircut was in Australia. Usually I go to a black barber or a Latino barber. I can't just go into Supercuts.
‐‐ Hannibal Buress

For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something.
‐‐ Chester Bennington

For me, you've got to play football first. We're not trying to be accountants. The money takes care of itself. That's kind of how I think anyway.
‐‐ Shaun Alexander

For me, you've got to start from within. The things you eat directly affect the way you feel and the way you move.
‐‐ Derek Hough

For me, your real age is not the age on your ID. That's just a date when you were born.
‐‐ Jose Mourinho

For meals, I'm big into quinoa or rocket salad with a protein like shrimp of chicken added to it.
‐‐ Jessica Stroup

For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun seems not to have been a restless man.
‐‐ George W. S. Trow

For Members of Congress, we are saying here on the Democratic side of the aisle we are not going to vote for another pay increase for Members of Congress until the American people get an increase.
‐‐ Kendrick Meek

For members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the term 'testimony' is a warm and familiar word in our religious expressions. It is tender and sweet. It has always a certain sacredness about it. When we talk about testimony, we refer to feelings of our heart and mind rather than an accumulation of logical, sterile facts.
‐‐ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.
‐‐ John Banville

For men, as they get bogged down with responsibilities, commitments, bureaucracy, it is a fantasy just to think of shedding everything literally, walking away with nothing at all, and just hitting the road.
‐‐ Lee Child

For men, being too put-together implies femininity.
‐‐ Helen Fisher

For men, it's about finding the perfect shoe or the perfect pants that will last you through the years. That's how I want to shop: sustainable, classic, great quality.
‐‐ Lykke Li

For men to be virgins, we think it's negative. We think that there's something wrong with them.
‐‐ Joyce Brothers

For mental illnesses, we need better access to treatment and diagnosis.
‐‐ Tipper Gore

For Michael Wright and Frank Darabont to cast me as the ultimate good guy and Eddie Burns as the ultimate bad guy, and really switching roles from what we usually play, is pretty awesome. That generally doesn't happen, but TNT is a horse of a different color.
‐‐ Neal McDonough

For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates, and their children are more likely to die in infancy.
‐‐ Esther Duflo

For millions of men and women, the church has been the hospital for the soul, the school for the mind and the safe depository for moral ideas.
‐‐ Gerald R. Ford

For millions of women and men around the world, the playwright Eve Ensler is a beloved figure. She represents the epitome of the politically engaged artist, someone who uses her creative brilliance to illuminate injustice and give voice to the voiceless.
‐‐ Jackson Katz

For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.
‐‐ Rebecca Solnit

For millions on the outside looking in, this is where they want to live - America.
‐‐ Mike Barnicle

For millions, Roger Ebert will be remembered as a writer and television personality who brought a sense of passion and excellence to his craft. For me, he is a man who fused joy and courage as few others ever have. My life was enriched by having such a friend; it is poorer for losing such a friend.
‐‐ Jeff Greenfield

For mine, the villains of the piece were always important. In a traditional sense, that's always an important role.
‐‐ Ben Mendelsohn

For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting.
‐‐ Jimmy Smits

For missionary entrepreneurs, the dream outcome is to build an 'Internet treasure' - a brand that defines a generation, proves that we are better than our parents, and becomes something we couldn't live without.
‐‐ Bing Gordon

For Mitt Romney, the complex question of anti-Mormon bias boils down to the practical matter of how he can make it go away. Facing a traditional American anti-Catholicism, John F. Kennedy gave a speech during the 1960 presidential campaign declaring his private religion irrelevant to his qualifications for public office.
‐‐ Noah Feldman

For modelling, you have to be such a strong person in a way - or seen to be a strong person, do you know what I mean? But in acting you have to get in touch with all the vulnerability that you carry.
‐‐ Agyness Deyn

For modern fashion designers, bones are beautiful. I don't know why, but so many people are obsessed with the skeletal look.
‐‐ Marie Helvin

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
‐‐ Alexander Pope

For months, I slept at work, even though I had an apartment. I'd fall asleep on the floor at 4:30 A.M. By 7 A.M., I was up and ready to start teaching every class.
‐‐ Bikram Choudhury

For months I've been working on creating techniques to reproduce Swarovski crystals in sugar using the real stones to guide me.
‐‐ Ron Ben-Israel