All Quotes

For my first week as a new boy at Radley College, back in the summer of 1979, I was followed around by a film crew.
‐‐ James Lovegrove

For my fragrance, I knew I wanted something sweet but with a different side to it. I have a lot of vanilla notes and bakery shop scents, but then I also have muskier notes that make it a bit edgier. It's fun but also sophisticated.
‐‐ Bethany Mota

For my future I have no concern, and as a true philosopher, I never would have any, for I know not what it may be: as a Christian, on the other hand, faith must believe without discussion, and the stronger it is, the more it keeps silent.
‐‐ Giacomo Casanova

For my grandmother's generation, the big invention was cake mix; for our moms, it was the microwave, and for me, it's the iPhone. And that's enabled us to do so many different things more efficiently at home.
‐‐ Brit Morin

For my group of friends is Lady Gaga eye-opening? No. She's a less dangerous version of what was so cool about pop culture in the '80s. Back then it was so gay and so punk in so many ways.
‐‐ Beth Ditto

For my kids, I cook everything. We have dinner every night, pretty much, just the four of us: my husband and me and our two kids.
‐‐ Lela Rose

For my kids, it's just weird to see your dad pretend to be someone else. It's weird to see your father make out with another woman. It's not cool.
‐‐ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

For my last meal, I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs.
‐‐ Erin O'Connor

For my life, I need to make my own choices.
‐‐ Kangana Ranaut

For my money, celery hasn't got a mean bit of fibre in its body, and we all need to start being much nicer to it.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

For my money, I don't think there's been a better comedy than 'Kung Fu Hustle' in a lot of years. That movie just knocked me over.
‐‐ Adam McKay

For my money, if I'm playing anything then it has to have some sharp angles on it. It's got to have some edges that you can cut yourself on, otherwise it's boring.
‐‐ Grant Bowler

For my money, the movies of the '70s were just amazing.
‐‐ Amy Heckerling

For my money, Tony Bennett is the best singer in the business. He excites me when I watch him. He moves me. He's the singer who gets across what the composer has in mind, and probably a little more.
‐‐ Frank Sinatra

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

For my new book 'Pirate Hunters', I follow John Chatterton and John Mattera, two world-class scuba divers, who teach themselves to think and act as pirates while searching for what would be only the second pirate ship ever found and positively identified.
‐‐ Robert Kurson

For my next trick I will make everyone understand me.
‐‐ Marc Maron

For my own family, I would always choose the makeshift, surrogate family formed by various characters unrelated by blood.
‐‐ Anne Tyler

For my own films, I would like to see 'Bullet in the Head' remastered. The original cut was actually almost three hours.
‐‐ John Woo

For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.
‐‐ Paul Ricoeur

For my own part I continue of the same Disposition.
‐‐ George Morgan

For my own part, I had rather suffer any inconvenience from having to work occasionally in chambers and kitchen... than witness the subservience in which the menial class is held in Europe.
‐‐ Harriet Martineau

For my own part, I have been wont to converse with poverty; and however disagreeable a companion she may be thought to be by the affluent and luxurious, who were never acquainted with her, I can live happily with her the remainder of my life if I can thereby contribute to the redemption of my country.
‐‐ Samuel Adams

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
‐‐ James Boswell

For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

For my own part, once I became a teenager, I experienced severe and violent racism.
‐‐ Maajid Nawaz

For my own personal growth I had to set out on my own.
‐‐ Frank Press

For my own singing, I used to be attracted by the baroque, the flashier the better, but now I prefer a simpler, purer style.
‐‐ Renee Fleming

For my own style, I love vintage. 60's and 70's are my favorite. I love baby doll dresses and the soft colors. I try to mix a little bit of modern into that - maybe I'll wear it with boots. At my school we wear a uniform, but we have one day a week we can wear whatever we want.
‐‐ Elle Fanning

For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That meant Germany for my first summer vacation, to learn the thorny language on my own.
‐‐ Paul Engle

For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
‐‐ Aasif Mandvi

For my part, as a filmmaker, I've never been a fly-on-the-wall documentarian. I have no commitment to that method. I believe it's a lie.
‐‐ Joshua Oppenheimer

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
‐‐ Fanny Burney

For my part, I desire to see the time when education - and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry - shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.
‐‐ James Payn

For my part, I do not much believe in the predilections of boyhood.
‐‐ James Payn

For my part, I have worked all my life with eggs and embryos of frogs. Compared to other small animals, these have figured prominently in the world of literature.
‐‐ John Gurdon

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
‐‐ Vincent Van Gogh

For my part, I like live theater best when it's taut, concentrated and intimate.
‐‐ Terry Teachout

For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.
‐‐ Ed Rendell

For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods.
‐‐ Jane Byrne

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
‐‐ Robert Louis Stevenson

For my part, I try to do my bit to make people's lives more bearable, in particular children across the globe who are having problems.
‐‐ Lionel Messi

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
‐‐ Eugenio Montale

For my part, if I'm working while flying, I'm often a bit relieved to be forced to shut down the computer on final descent. But I guess I'm a slacker.
‐‐ Meghan Daum

For my part, if the audience wanted to see Dracula again, I would be happy to reprise the role. It is an immortal character that can appear anywhere because it lies beyond time. Possibilities are endless.
‐‐ Luke Evans

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
‐‐ Patrick Henry

For my peculiar face, I look best when I look as though I'm not wearing make-up.
‐‐ Lauren Bacall

For my 'Perfect Chemistry' series, I did movie-style book trailers, and my fans went crazy for them.
‐‐ Simone Elkeles

For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bioluminescent dinoflagellate. As I was nearing the completion of my degree, my major professor wrote a grant for an instrument for measuring the color of very dim light flashes from bioluminescent animals.
‐‐ Edith Widder