All Quotes

For X-rays, the phenomenon of diffraction by crystals was a natural consequence of the idea that X-rays are waves analogous to light and differ from it only by having a smaller wavelength.
‐‐ Louis de Broglie

For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.
‐‐ Elia Kazan

For years after 'The Last Waltz,' I got all kinds of silly movie offers - or, maybe, not silly, but parts that are not my calling... lots of offers to play some wonderful boyfriend.
‐‐ Robbie Robertson

For years, agency officials said that atrazine in drinking water posed almost no risk to humans or the environment.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

For years, American officials visiting China marvelled at how Chinese leaders could push through infrastructure projects and sweeping legislative changes without the complications of opposition and the niceties of voting.
‐‐ Evan Osnos

For years and years, Christians have been singing about their wandering hearts. Our hearts need to be recalibrated and realigned and reoriented by God.
‐‐ Tullian Tchividjian

For years and years I have done the work I was born for.
‐‐ James Larkin

For years and years, I was beset with snide remarks by certain members of the press, where they would turn John Oates into a joke, or they would trivialize what I do, which never really bothered me all that much.
‐‐ Daryl Hall

For years before I became a father, I would try to spend as much time as I could with my friends who were parents and their kids. And I was really impressed. They all sort of managed to do it, and do it gracefully.
‐‐ Nick Flynn

For years, broadcasters didn't get a nickel out of retransmission consent. But broadcast content is what the cable industry was selling to customers.
‐‐ Gordon Smith

For years, China expected foreign companies not to publicly voice their complaints about hacking or intellectual-property violations in order to protect their broader interests in the country.
‐‐ Evan Osnos

For years, comprehensive tax reform has eluded legislators.
‐‐ John Delaney

For years, critics of Fannie Mae have warned that it does not give them enough information to judge its risks.
‐‐ Alex Berenson

For years Don Imus was just - boy, he was merciless in his criticism of me. Maybe it was justified, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt.
‐‐ Dan Rather

For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.
‐‐ Lord Robertson

For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism.
‐‐ Greg Bear

For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.
‐‐ Casey Kasem

For years following the death of my mother, I wanted to write about her. I started writing what I thought of as personal essays about growing up as her child, but I never could finish any of them. I think I was too close to that loss, and too eager to try and resolve things, to make her death make sense.
‐‐ Tracy K. Smith

For years, friends in Springfield, Missouri, have remarked on the physical resemblance between Brad Pitt and his only brother, Doug. But the two share a deeper similarity: their commitment to charitable causes.
‐‐ Kate Klise

For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.
‐‐ Paul Martin

For years, Hizb-I-Islami fighters have had a reputation for being more educated and worldly than their Taliban counterparts, who are often illiterate farmers.
‐‐ Anand Gopal

For years, I advised George Steinbrenner to get out of town because he dishonored my hometown with his bullying and bombast.
‐‐ George Vecsey

For years, I always thought it was hilarious that I was this fitness guru, because fitness was just a tool I utilized to help people improve their confidence. For me, it's never been about fitness. It's always been about helping to empower people.
‐‐ Jillian Michaels

For years, I ate the same foods every day, in exactly the same manner, at exactly the same times.
‐‐ Caroline Knapp

For years, I'd go to the movies and see guys doing Boston accents and think, 'Oh please, God, I hope I never have to do that.'
‐‐ Michael Keaton

For years I'd thought my color was black: deep, dark, thoughtful, mysterious. Black, you can hide behind. But now I know it is red.
‐‐ Jami Attenberg

For years I'd understood that publishing in paperback was the kiss of death.
‐‐ Christina Baker Kline

For years I did most of my reading on the F train between Brooklyn and Manhattan. I had long commutes, and I read tons of books on that train; I loved it.
‐‐ Elizabeth Strout

For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.
‐‐ Alice Lowe

For years I drove a big Ford F250 pickup. That was my ride because two-thirds of my work was wood work, and I'm always driving up to Northern California, where I harvest salvaged trees.
‐‐ Nick Offerman

For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.
‐‐ Jami Attenberg

For years I exercised to be thinner, and I never got the results I wanted. When I finally started working out to be healthier, I saw a transformation. I've even quit weighing myself so I don't obsess over the numbers.
‐‐ Judy Reyes

For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.
‐‐ Jill McCorkle

For years I felt that I didn't have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting enough air but I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma. The medicine for asthma never worked.
‐‐ Venus Williams

For years, I had a top secret clearance and never left Russia. Just once did I go to Bulgaria with my wife for a holiday at the Golden Sands resort, but I could not mention my real name. I was allowed to travel abroad only in the early 1990s.
‐‐ Mikhail Kalashnikov

For years, I had heard about the lack of interest in literature in the U.S. and I had complained about it. I failed to understand how people could fail to be moved by art.
‐‐ Rita Dove

For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.
‐‐ Rachel Cusk

For years I had my hair parted down the middle in a ponytail, tucked down around the sides... Well, I went and cut the bangs, and I've been wearing them ever since. They say it's my trademark.
‐‐ Bettie Page

For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.
‐‐ Renee Fleming

For years, I hated myself. I covered the mirrors in my house. I literally couldn't have a mirror in my room.
‐‐ Christina Ricci

For years I have been going to the South of France to cool out.
‐‐ Suzanne Somers

For years, I have been harboring memories of my first major league game at a place named Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.
‐‐ George Vecsey

For years, I have been stalked by a bad reputation. Actually, I have been pursued by people who have regarded me as the 'Death and Dying' Lady. They believe that having spent more than three decades in research into death and life after death qualifies me as an expert on the subject. I think they miss the point.
‐‐ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

For years, I have been working on crossing the Grand Canyon. Actually, there is nobody who says 'no,' but since this is a project that comes from me and not a commission, I have to find the money, plan the logistics, etcetera.
‐‐ Philippe Petit

For years I have played the twenty-something lover.
‐‐ James MacArthur

For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
‐‐ Larry Hogan

For years, I have worked diligently to develop and implement a 21st century manufacturing strategy that will create jobs in the new clean energy economy.
‐‐ Debbie Stabenow

For years I heeded the warning: Do monthly breast self-exams. Like most women, I did them on a 'sort of' basis. Every few months I'd sort of do a quick feel, but never as thoroughly as the doctors urged. I didn't want to go looking for trouble. If you look for it, you might find it. Looking for cancer is unsettling. Thank God I looked.
‐‐ Regina Brett

For years, I just did not like this idea of God, church.
‐‐ Tim Allen

For years, I longed to hear Armstrong describe what it was like to contemplate Earth from 238,900 miles away. Former Space Center director George Abbey once told me that many NASA astronauts felt that looking at Earth was akin to a religious experience.
‐‐ Douglas Brinkley