All Quotes

For years, I looked to Bruce Lee as a mentor as being a Chinese and Asian man living in this country.
‐‐ Donnie Yen

For years, I meant to read 'Arabian Sands', Wilfred Thesiger's account of two punishing camel journeys during the late 1940s across Southern Arabia's Empty Quarter. Now that I have, I can sheepishly join the chorus of those who revere the book as one of the half dozen greatest works of modern English travel writing.
‐‐ Michael Dirda

For years, I never knowingly went on a holiday. When I travelled, it was for work. Now I am a huge advocate, particularly to places which have amazing wildlife, such as Antarctica, India and Patagonia.
‐‐ Miranda Richardson

For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from.
‐‐ Nick Tosches

For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don't think it happened for maybe another four years that I actually thought of a story, the plot of a story that corresponded to that phrase.
‐‐ Jhumpa Lahiri

For years, I stored my sweaters in the oven.
‐‐ Lesley Visser

For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.
‐‐ Theodore Sturgeon

For years I thought my assignment or the Church's assignment was to articulate the Gospel and nothing more. Now I believe that if we don't support the verbal expression of the Gospel with physical demonstration of compassion, we are not imitating Jesus.
‐‐ Max Lucado

For years I thought what was good for our country was good for General Motors and vice versa. The difference did not exist. Our company is too big. It goes with the welfare of the country.
‐‐ Charles Erwin Wilson

For years I tried to put myself in a box, and it frustrated me, so I had to let go and let the universe take its course.
‐‐ Billy Porter

For years, I tried to resist the hero label.
‐‐ Chesley Sullenberger

For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.
‐‐ James Herriot

For years I used to try to straighten my hair, but I've reached a stage where I think, 'I've got red curly hair, and it's actually really great.'
‐‐ Bonnie Langford

For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came to realize that they really mean that they just don't expect to be 65. Or 40. Neither did I, when I was 22.
‐‐ Gail Collins

For years, I've been interviewed, and they write what they thought I thought or what they thought I said. Sometimes it's accurate, and often it isn't.
‐‐ Linda Ronstadt

For years I've been seeing my young brothers wearing Scarface T-shirts, John Gotti T-shirts, Rick James T-shirts. We don't have any icons or idols to look up to, just rappers and professional athletes.
‐‐ Lamar Odom

For years, I've been wanting to do something that has a bit more of a dramatical drive and combine it with some action.
‐‐ Jason Statham

For years, I've been wondering what could happen to nuclear submarines when they dive and disappear from the surface of the earth for months, without a trace. No one really knows where they are.
‐‐ Guy Hamilton

For years, I've felt an obligation to harvest an animal, since all my life I've so mindlessly consumed them. But that was from the safety of my desk.
‐‐ Rosecrans Baldwin

For years, I've felt like the loneliest brother on the planet. I don't play basketball, I can't dance, and I'd rather listen to Harry Nilsson than hip hop.
‐‐ Shawn Amos

For years, I've felt that there's an inner cook in me just waiting to be unleashed. But I have to confess I'm having an awful lot of trouble finding her in real life.
‐‐ Lesley Nicol

For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.
‐‐ Jon Bon Jovi

For years I've kept a list of dream projects.
‐‐ Michael Bolton

For years, I've pushed the idea of a column compilation book mainly because it would be easy - I could just staple 'em all together. But publishers have been resistent, feeling the material dates.
‐‐ Michael Musto

For years, I've thought about a project or a way where I could do acting and music together, and I never really thought that would happen. Then 'Nashville' came along, and it was like a dream come true to marry both of those worlds.
‐‐ Jonathan Jackson

For years I've wanted to find some guys that I could work with, because I realized a long time ago that I can do a lot of things other than Aerosmith.
‐‐ Joe Perry

For years I've wanted to write a book about mummies, and had been following the science of mummy CT scans when the premise for 'The Keepsake' occurred to me: what if an 'ancient' mummy turns out to have a bullet in its leg? How does a modern murder victim get turned into a mummy?
‐‐ Tess Gerritsen

For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.
‐‐ Kate Grenville

For years, I've written narrators who aren't gender-identified. When I do autobiographical stuff, that's different, obviously. But I've always tried to keep my songs as potentially not a man's thing.
‐‐ John Darnielle

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood

For years, I was compared to Wookiees, especially after I did the 'Star Wars Holiday Special.' I have some photos of me with a few of the Wookiees on the set, and it's hard to tell us apart.
‐‐ Bruce Vilanch

For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.
‐‐ Shane Black

For years, I was either referred to as a 'rubber-faced funny man' or 'the 'Men Behaving Badly' star.'
‐‐ Martin Clunes

For years, I was often afraid to speak up when I didn't fully understand a script. I'd tie myself in knots.
‐‐ Michelle Dockery

For years, I was quite a militant atheist. I wanted to burn down all the churches or turn them into second-hand record emporiums.
‐‐ Michel Faber

For years, I was stuck behind a keyboard rig. When I started playing guitar onstage, it was a bit of a release - not to be stuck in one spot the whole night. It's really enjoyable having the freedom to move around. You just have to remember to end up somewhere near a microphone.
‐‐ Martin Gore

For years, I was watching other people have so much fun playing out their version of authorship, like Louis C.K. and Larry David. As I watched them do their thing, I began to pine for the days when I had a lot less expected of me and, often, a lot more creative freedom. The courage that those guys have is always captivating to me.
‐‐ Jon Favreau

For years, I wasn't in the least bit interested in opera.
‐‐ Simon McBurney

For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window.
‐‐ Mitch Albom

For years in football I was angry with the game, angry with pundits and, a lot of the time, angry with the journalists writing about me. All that changed when I got my break in movies.
‐‐ Vinnie Jones

For years, Iran has worked to position itself to dominate the entire Middle East and to impose its version of radical Islam on society. It is actively working to destabilize Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria.
‐‐ Bill Flores

For years, Ireland used to have a philosophy of 'Get them in here to invest and develop in Ireland, and this will sort out our problems.' It is good in the sense of building a trade surplus, but we also want to develop what it is that we offer ourselves and that Irish companies export abroad.
‐‐ Enda Kenny

For years, Islamists and other extremists have taken advantage of grievances of Muslims in Britain and have successfully identified ways to integrate them under one 'Islamic' banner.
‐‐ Maajid Nawaz

For years it never occurred to me to question the judgment of those in charge at the studio.
‐‐ Gene Tierney

For years, it's driven me crazy that women don't have better roles, especially in comedies. I know so many funny women but I always felt... misogynist streak is too strong a term - but a dismissiveness.
‐‐ Paul Feig

For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.
‐‐ Norman Granz

For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
‐‐ Yair Lapid

For years, Lebanese have known that Palestinian camps like Nahr al-Barid and Ain al-Helwe - hopeless slums crowded with generations of disenfranchised Palestinian refugees who can't go home because of Israel, and can't work because of Lebanese laws - are awash with gunmen, criminals and, since the war in Iraq, al-Qaida inspired jihadists.
‐‐ Richard Engel

For years, many public health campaigns that aimed at changing habits have been failures.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

For years, members of Congress have heard from constituents who want them to protect the nation from crime, terrorism and intellectual property violation. They have not faced equally robust demands that online rights and freedoms be preserved.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon